254 COMPOSITE. [Inula. 



2. I. Conyza, DC. Ploughman's Spikenard. " Leaves pu- 

 bescent ovate-lanceolate serrated, the upper ones entire, stem 

 herbaceous corymbose, scales of the involucre all linear recurved 

 leafy, ray scarcely longer than the disk, achenes terete slightly 

 hairy."— Br. Fl. p. 240. Conyza squarrosa, L. : E. B. i. 1195. 



In dry rocky or bushy pastures, hedges and thickets, on sunny banks and hilly 

 slopes ; frequent on the chalk and clay of the eocene deposits. Fl. August — 

 October. Fr. October. $ . 



E. Mei. — Plentiful at Bonchurch, Ventndr, St. Lawrence, and along the Un- 

 dercliff. Frequent about Arreton. Plentiful near Brading, under the down 

 towards Adgeton, &c. Plentiful on steep declivities above the road to Niton, just 

 beyond St. Lawrence. Abundantly in the lane leading from the Ryde and New- 

 port road to Quarr abbey, some of the plants 5 feet in height. Near Brading, 

 Yaverland and Hyde, B. T. W. 



W. Med. — In (he valley between Apes down and Rowledge, near the latter 

 place. About Northcourt. About Carisbrooke and the castle, B. T. W. 



A large bushy plant. Root thick, with many long creeping fibres. Stem erect, 

 1 — 3 feet in height, stout, roundish or obscurely angular, dark red or purple, very 

 downy, much branched. Leaves dark green, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, \ipper- 

 most sessile, downy, especially beneath, coarsely and unequally serrated, the 

 uppermost nearly entire. Flowers in axillary and terminal corymbose clusters. 

 Achenia brownish black, linear-oblong, a litlle curved and compressed, strongly 

 ribbed with deep intermediate furrows, glabrous excepting a few scattered, erect, 

 bristly hairs chiefly near their summit ; inserted by their white, oblique and car- 

 tilaginous bases on the nearly plane and perfectly naked receptacle, which is 

 covered with raised points for their attachment instead of alveoli. Pappus dirty 

 white, single-rowed, about three or four limes as long as the seed, simple, rough 

 and striate. 



3. I. crithmoides, L. Golden Samphire. " Leaves linear fleshy 

 generally 3 -toothed at the extremity, scales of the involucre 

 appressed linear acuminated, ray nearly twice the length of the 

 disk, achenes terete villous." — Br. Fl. p. 240. E. B. t. 68. Curt. 

 Brit. Entom. vi. p. 243. 



On sea-side rocks and banks, in muddy salt-marshes, and about the mouths of 

 tide-rivers and creeks, but very local, i^^. July — October. If. 



E. Med. — In a creek of the Medina, about half a mile above E. Cowes, near a 

 wood, but very sparingly, Mr. Hailstone!! 



W. Med. — In Newtown marshes, fringing the edges of the salt-pans, in very 

 great abundance, 1838. 



Root thick, fleshy. Stems numerous, I — 2 feet high, simple or branched, 

 rounded, slightly angular, very leafy. Leaves sessile, fleshy, linear or strap- 

 shaped, grooved, of a pale yellow or rather glaucous-green, not ribbed, ending in 

 3 points, the smaller ones in fascicles from the base of the larger, single-pointed. 

 Flowers at the extremity of the stem and branches, on scaly peduncles, few toge- 

 ther, f of an inch in diameter, rather handsome, the ray bright yellow, disk 

 orange. Involucre of several rows of linear-acute, green, imbricated scales closely 

 applied to one another, not at all lax or spreading below. Florets on a naked 

 fleshy receptacle, inserted in very distinct fovese, those of the circumference with 

 a narrow, spreading, finely reflexed ray. Achene rough with simple erect bristles. 

 Pappus rough. 



The whole plant has an aromatic not ungrateful smell, and a warm, pungent, 

 saline taste, approaching in both respects to the true Samphire {Crithmum mari- 

 timum), for which perhaps it would be a good and certainly more accessible sub- 

 stitute. 



