COMPOSITE. Off 
larios. Florets all tabular 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; 
epigynous disk without a crown or pappus. 
A white woolly herb with alternate oblong-lanceolate semi- 
ftmplexicaul, entire, or crcnulated leaves, and corymbose anthodes 
of yellow flowers. 
The derivation of the name of this genus of plants appears to be from cic (d!s\ 
two, ami wrtc (otis), the ear, — two-eared, in allusion to the fruit invested with the tube 
of the corolla. 
SPECIES I.—DI OTIS MARITIMA. Coss. 
Plate DCCXXV. 
K.ich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXCVIIL Fig. 3. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1499. 
D. candi.lissima, Desfont. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 34. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 
p. 159. 
Santolina rnaritima, Linn. " MS." Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 141. 
Athanasia rnaritima, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 1182. 
The only known 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. 
Rootstock 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 oblanccolate-oblong, crenate, densely felted- 
cottony and white on both sides. Anthodes \ 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. Paleae 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, SantoUne. German, Cypresscn Kraut. 
