COMPOSITE. 5& 
laries. Florets all tubular and perfect, the tube produced at the 
base into 2 spurs resembling auricles, which almost entirely 
envelop the ovary and adhere to it. Achenes compressed, rounded 
at the apex, ribbed, permanently invested with the corolla-tube; 
ejngynous disk without a crown or pappus. 
A white woolly herb with alternate oblong-lanceolate semi- 
amplexieaul, entire, or crenulated leaves, and corymbose anthodes 
of yellow flowers. 
The derivation of the name of this genus of plants appears to be from etc (dis\ 
two, and tone (otis), the ear, — two-eared, in allusion to the fruit invested with the tube 
of the corolla, 
SPECIES I— DIOTIS MARITIMA. Cost. 
Plate DCCXXV. 
Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXCVIII. Fig. 3. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1499. 
D. candidisama, Desfont. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 34. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 
p. 159. 
Santolina maritima, Linn. " MS." Sin. Eng. Bot. No. 141. 
Athanasia maritima, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 1182. 
The only know r n species. 
On sandy seashores a little to the north of Landguard Fort, 
Suffolk ; near Carnsore Point, county Wexford ; from whence I 
am favoured with specimens by Mr. John Waddy. It formerly 
occurred in Cornwall, Devon, Dorsetshire, Isle of Sheppcy, near 
Lowestoft, and in Anglesea, but is now extinct in all the localities 
on the Southern coast. Abundant on the shores of St. Ouen's 
Bay, Jersey. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Pootstock very long, woody, branched in a somewhat tufted 
manner at the apex. Stems felted-cottony, ascending, G inches 
to 1 foot long, rather thick, nearly simple except at the apex. 
Leaves oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, crenate, densely felted- 
cottony and white on both sides. Anthodes J to f inch across, in 
a dense terminal corymb ; peduncles short, those of the terminal 
flowers very short. Phyllaries few, ovate, the inner ones broader, 
so densely felted on the exterior that they are undistinguishable, 
unless the one be raised from the other. Palese oval, acuminate. 
Achenes curved, smooth, with 5 thick ribs, the greater part embraced 
by the base of the corolla-tube, which descends on each side in an 
elongated auricle. Plant white or hoary. 
Seaside Cotton-weed. 
French, Santoline. German, Cypressen Kraut. 
