1(J(J ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES III.— INULA SALICINA. Liun. 
Plate DCCLXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. PI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tub. CMXXVIII. Figs. 1, 2. 
Billot, Y\. GaL et Genu. Exsicc. No. 1228. 
Stem glabrous or sub-glabrous, simple or sparingly corymbosely 
branched at the top. Lowest leaves oblanceolate, narrowed towards 
the base ; upper leaves elliptical or lanceolate-elliptical, sessile, semi- 
amplexicaul with rounded auricles ; all firm, with the veins pro- 
minent beneath, acute, very faintly and remotely denticulate, 
glabrous above, glabrous or with scattered hairs (especially on the 
veins) beneath, ciliated with cartilaginous hairs or processes. An- 
thodes solitary, large. Pericline globose-campanulate ; phyllariea 
glabrous, with ciliated edges ; the outer ones broader, foliaceous, 
with reflexed points ; the inner ones strapshaped, sub-scarious. 
Florets of the ray with elongated ligules, toothed at the apex, 
much longer than the phyllaries and pappus. Achenes glabrous, 
cylindrical, striated. Pappus in a single row. 
Along the wild rough shore of Lough Derg, co. Galway, from 
Portumna onwards, growing at intervals for about two miles, 
amongst tufts of Schcenus nigricans, Molinia cierulea, Galium 
boreale, &c. (Dr. D. Moore, in Seernann's "Journal of Potany," 
Nov. 1SG5, p. 334). 
Ireland. Perennial. Early Autumn. 
Stem erect, 12 to 18 inches high. Leaves numerous, 1^ to 
l", inches Long, firm, sparingly hairy on the veins beneath in the 
I fish specimens. Anthodes bright-yellow, 1^ inch across, in conti- 
nental specimens. Pericline \ to -J inch across. Pappus dirty-white. 
I have been favoured with specimens of this line species from 
its discoverer, Dv. D. Moore, who has done so much for the botany 
of Ireland. The name of I. semiamplexicaulis, Meuter, has been 
s invested by some botanists; but the Galway plant agrees much 
better witli I. salicina. I have seen specimens of the latter, from 
Denmark, Sweden, and Belgium, which have the leaves and stem 
quite as hairy as in the Irish plant, while in I. semiamplexicaulis 
the hairs are much more numerous, with bulbous bases, the leaves 
softer and more conspicuously serrate, the stem taller, and the 
anthodes more numerous. 
'The Irish specimens with anthodes are in fruit, but there is no 
appearance of ray-florets: so that cither these have all fallen oil', 
or the heads have been discoid. 
// 'illuw-lcaicd Inula. 
