112 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
B I ' I :< ' I ES I r— A STER LINOSYRIS. Bcrnh. in Steud. Norn. 
Plate DCCLXXVII. 
Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMX. Fig. 1. 
Billot, FL GalL et Germ. Exsicc. Letter C. 
Chrysoooma [inoeytis, Limn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2.505. 
Linosyris vulgaris, Cass. I). C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 352. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 
p, [74. Hoik .1- Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 246. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. 
p, 291. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 384. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. 
p. 4. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 94. 
Gfllatella Linosyris, Reich. Jil. 1. c, p. 8. 
Stems herbaceous, wiry, simple or nearly so, very leafy. Leaves 
not fleshy, 1-nerved, linear, glabrous, entire, and rough at the 
margins. Peduncles with bracts below the anthodes, passing gra- 
dually into phyllaries. Anthodes in a terminal corymb. Phyl- 
laries lax ; the outer ones strapshaped, acute, spreading at the 
apex ; inner ones elliptical, sub-scarious. Florets all tubular and 
perfect. Achcnes pubescent. Pappus about as long as the achene, 
reddish-white. 
On limestone cliffs. Rare. Berry Head, Devon ; Worle Hill, 
Somerset ; and Orme's Head, Carnarvonshire. Single specimens 
have also been found in the Isle of Portland, and between Brighton 
and Shoreham. 
England. Perennial. Autumn. 
Stem slender, 4 to 20 inches high. Leaves very narrow, atte- 
nuated at each end, 1-nerved, punctate above. Outer phyllaries 
vi it narrow, herbaceous ; inner ones elliptical, broadly scarious at 
the marginSj acute or abruptly acuminate, yellowish, sometimes 
tinged with pink. Florets longer than the phyllaries, bright-yellow. 
Aclienes brown with whitish hairs. Pappus dirty-white, often tinged 
with red. Plant green, glabrous, with the upper part of the stem 
and peduncles generally puberulent. 
According to Dr. C. H. Schultz, a form with radiant anthodes 
is cultivated under the name of Galatella linifolia, Nees. (Archiv. do 
Flore, ]>. 128). 
Gokhjlocks. 
French, Chri/socome a FeuUles de Lin. German, Lemkraui. 
a ENUS XXIV.— S O L I D A G O. Linn. 
Anthodes belcrogamous and radiant, few- or many-flowered, 
Pericline campanulate or cylindrical ; phyllaries imbricated in 
several r.»ws, herbaceous. Clinanth flat, pitted, the pits bordered 
