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XLYI. COMPOSIT.E : CORYMBIFER^. \_Eitpat6riunu 



and sometimes from the same root ; but De CaudoUe attributes to a 

 an involucre with constantly 5 florets, the inner scales obtuse ; and to 

 ^, always 3 florets, with the inner involucral scales acute. 



5. A. "^ ccemiUsecns'L. (Z^Zza^A ilf.) ; leaves boary most of them 

 lanceolate undivided capering at the base, lower ones variously 

 lobed, heads 3-flowered oblong-cvlindrical spicate, scales of 

 the involucre hoary subcarlnate. E, B. t. 2426. 



Sea-coast near Boston, Lincolnshire, and at Portsmouth. '^.. 8 9. 

 iS^o such plant has been found in these localities for many years, 

 and there seems to be no doubt of the allied A, maritima having been 

 mistaken for it. (See Dr. Bromfield in the Phytol. iii. p. 491.) 

 It is peculiarly a Mediterranean species. 



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Pappus pilose. (Gen. 28 — 33.) 



28. EuPxVTOKiUM Linn. Hemp-agrimony. 



Achenes angled or striate. Pappus pilose and rough. Re- 

 ceptacle naked. Involucre imbricated. Stijles much exserted, 

 with long blunt papillose branches. Florets all perfect (never 

 yellow). — Named from. Eupator^ the surname of Mitliridates^ 

 king of Pontus, who is said to have brought this plant into use. 



1, E. cannahimim L. (common IL) ; leaves downy opposite 

 subpetiolate 3 — 5-partite, their segments lanceolate deeply ser- 

 rate, the middle one the longest, heads 5 — G-flowered, scales 

 of the involucre about 10, 5 outer ones short obtuse. E, B, 

 t. 428. 



Banks of rivers, and watery places. 2}., 7 — 9, — Steins 3 — 4 ft. 

 high, branched. Heads ofjloivers very numerous, pale reddish-purple, 

 thickly crowded in terminal corymhs, — Plant slightly aromatic. 



29. LiNOSYRis Cass, Goldylocks. 



Aclienes compressed, silky. Pappus in a double row, pilose, 

 rough. i?^cej;fttcZ(? naked, pitted, the pits with fleshy toothed 



Involucre of one row of scales surrounded by several 

 long ones, or imbricated. Style scarcely longer than the corolla, 

 with short oblong hispid branches. Antliers QQ^MilixtQ. Floi^ets 



niaroms. 



all perfect, deeply 5-cIeft (yellow). 



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and os^Tis^ an appellation given by Pliny to a plant with supple 

 branches and leaves like flax, obviously from the Hebrew asar 

 or oser^ tying or bindings whence also osier in English. 



1. L. vulgdins L. (Flax-leaved G.) ; herbaceous, leaves linear 

 glabrous, scales of the involucre leafy loosely spreading, 

 Chrysocoma Linosyris Z. : E. B. t. 2505. 



Limestone cliiFs, rare. Berryhead, Devon; coast between Brighton 

 and Shoreham, Sussex; Whorle-hill, Weston-supra-mare, Somerset; 



Ormeshead, N. Wales, abundant. %, 8, 9 Leaves very numerous, 



more or less dotted. 





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