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HELMl'NTHIA* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Syngen’e'sia f, Polyga'mia 
;Equalis %. 
Natural Order. Compo'sit.f. §, ( Linn.J, tribe, Cichora'ce.-f, 
Lind!. Syn. pp. 140 & 156. : Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bof. pp. 197 
and 201. — Loud. Hort. Brit. pp. 520 & 521. — Mack. FI. Hibern. 
pp. 142 & 159. — Cichora'ce.'e, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 168. — Sm. Gr. 
of Bot. p. 120. — Synanthe're.e, Rich, by Macgilliv. p.454. — 
Syringales; subord. Asterosaj; type, Cichoraceaj, Burn. 
Out!, of Bot. pp. 900, 901, & 935. 
Gem. Char. Involucrum ( common calyx ) (fig. 1.) double, 
inner of 8 equal, parallel, close scales ( fig 2.) ; outer of 5 large, lax, 
leafy ones, permanent. Corolla compound, imbricated, uniform ; 
florets (fig. 3.) numerous, perfect, uniform, strap-shaped, abrupt, 
with 5 teeth. Filaments 5, hair-like, very short. Anthers united 
into a cylindrical tube German (see fig. 3.) nearly oval. Style 
thread-shaped, the length of the stamens (see fig. 3'. Stigmas 2, 
reflexed. Seed-vessel none, except the permanent calyx, which at 
length becomes reflexed. Seed (fig. 5.) transversely striated. Pappus 
(see fig. 5.) feathery (see fig. 6.), stalked (stipitate). Receptacle 
(see fig. 7.) naked, dotted. 
The double involucrum , innermost equal, outer lax ; the feathery, 
stipitate pappus; the transversely striated seed; and the naked 
receptacle; will distinguish this from other genera in the same 
class and order. 
This genus differs from Picris in the pappus being stipitate, not 
sessile. 
One species British. 
HELMPNTHIA ECHIOPDES. Echium-like Helminthia. 
Bristly Ox-tongue. Bugloss Langue-de-boeuf. 
Spec. Char. Outer scales (bracteola?) of the Involucrum broad, 
egg-heart-shaped, somewhat spiny. 
Gsertner’s Fruclibus et seminibus Plantarum, v. ii. p.368 t. 159. f. 2. — VVilld. 
Sp. PI. v. iii. pt. hi. p. 1607. — Gray’s Nat. Air. v. ii. p. 431. — Lindl. Syn. p. 
158. — Hook. Brit. FI. p.338. — FI. Devon, p. 129. — Bab. FI. Bath. p.28. — Mack. 
Gatal. of PI. of Ire 1. p. 69. ; FI. Hibern. p. 162, — Picris echioides, Engl. Bot. 
t. 972. — Curt. FI. Bond. t. 150. ; Cult. Biit. Entomol. v. vii. t. 314. — Linn. Sp. 
PI. p. 1114. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 342.— Sm. FI. Brit. v.ii. p. 814: 
Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 339. — With. (7th ed.) v. iii. p. 881. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p.240. — 
Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 168. — Davies' Welsh Bot. p. 74. — Hurt. Mid. FI. v. ii. p. 
374. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 316. — Jolmst. FI. of Berwick, v. i. p. 173. — 
Winch’s FI. of Northumb. 6c Durham, p. 50. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 221. — 
Hieracium echioides cnpitulis carditi benedicli, Kay’s Syn. p. 166. — Butj- 
lossum luteum, J ohnson s Gerarde, p. 798. 
Fig. 1. Involucrum. — Fig. 2. One of the inner Scales of the Involucrum. — 
Fig. 3. A single Floret. — Figs. 4 & 5. The Seed and Pappus. — Fig. 6. A Ray of 
the Pappus, magnified. — Fig. 7. Receptacle. 
* From Helminthion, a little worm ; which the rugose seeds somewhat re- 
semble. Loudon. 
t See folio 91. t 
J Sec folio 147. 
i See folio 27, a. 
