COMPOSITE. 101 
SrECIES IV.— INULA CRITHMOIDFS.')^ 
Plate DCCLXIX. 
Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXXII. Fig. 1. 
. 1-1. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc No. 1005. 
Stem corymbosely branched at the apex, simple or panicu- 
lately branched in the upper half, glabrous. Leaves strapshaped 
or linear-strapshaped, entire, those on the main stem with a small 
h on each side near the apex ; those of the branches and axil- 
lary fascicles generally without these teeth ; all fleshy and glabrous. 
Anthodes rather few, in simple corymbs at the extremity of the 
i and branches. Peduncles thickened upwards, with linear- 
strapshaped bracts passing insensibly into the phyllaries. Peri- 
dine l'unnelshaped-campanulate ; phyllaries herbaceous, glabrous, 
adpressed ; inner ones scarious at the margins. Elorets of the 
ray numerous, their ligule linear, much longer than the phyl- 
laries and pappus, flat, toothed at the apex. Achenes cylindrical, 
striated, pubescent. Pappus in a single row. 
In salt marshes, and on rocks, banks and margins of ditches 
by the seaside. Rather rare, and confined to the South and West 
coasts, from Essex round to Wigton and Kirkcudbright. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
llootstock woody, many-headed. Stems 6 inches to 3 feet high, 
bare of leaves at the base by the time the flowers expand, densely 
leafy in the upper portion, with fascicles of small leaves on the 
axils of those leaves which have not axillary branches, dividing at 
tin- top into a few branches terminating in solitary peduncles, or 
more rarely with several branches dividing again at the apex ; this, 
however, rarely happens, unless the central stem has been injured; 
but I have specimens from Sheppey with about a dozen branches 
terminated by corymbs or solitary flowers. Pericline -| inch across 
or more, broader than long. Elorets bright-yellow. Pappus longer 
than the brownish achene, dirty-white. Plant yellowish-green, 
glabrous, fleshy. 
Golden Samphire. 
French, Aunee Cluirnue. 
Sub-Genus III.— PULICA1UA. Gartn. 
Aihcncs cylindrical, rounded at the summit, with stria? all 
round. Pappus double, the inner of elongated scarcely ciliated 
