210 
Composite. 
6. Stem 25—40 cm, with branches bearing 1 — 3 heads. PL 
more robust than E. acris, with abundant glands and 
large heads.—Alp., not common. 7 Villarsii Bell. 1128. 
— Stem 10 — 18 cm, divided into several long, 1-headed 
branches. PI. less robust than the last, with rarer glands, 
ray shorter, pale or almost white. E. rupestris Schl. 
not Bl. Fing. —Rocks of Wall., on granite (Simplon, 
Saas, Zermatt, Bagnetlial, Fully). 7 Schleicheri Grml. 1129. 
7. Stem and Is more or less hairy. Inner, tubular-filiform, 
fern, fls numerous. — ? b. intermedins Schl. (acris-alpinus 
Rchb.?) PI. more robust, covered with numerous stiff, 
spreading hairs. —Alp. and Jura; b. Ormonds. 7 
alpinus L. 1130. 
— Stem almost glabr. Ls only ciliate. Inner, tubular-fili¬ 
form, fern, fls 0 or few.— As the last. 7 
glabratus Hopp. and Horn. 1131. 
OBS. Hybrids: E. acris-alpinus intermedins Christ!; E. acris-Villarsii 
(Favrati Grml.); E. alp inns-glabratus and E. alpinus-unifiorus (according to 
Briigg.). 
297. Solidago. Golden-rod. XIX, 75. 
1. Heads in upright racemes, not unilateral, which collec¬ 
tively form a panicle, or (in alpine forms) an almost 
simple raceme. S. valesiaca Bor. (forma umbrosa).— 
b. alpestris W. K. PL lower; ls narrower; heads less 
numerous, larger.—Woods; distrib.; b. Alp. and Jura. 
6;- b. almost a month earlier (as also the alpine forms of 
Hieracium umbellatum, Serratula tinctoria &c.!) 
Virgaurea L. 1132. 
— Heads distinctly smaller, but much more numerous than 
in the last, in unilateral racemes, very spreading, re¬ 
curved at the top, collectively forming a panicle.—Im¬ 
portant N.American species, late, and easily naturalised 
in thickets by the water-side. S', canadensis L. S. Sero- 
tina Ait., S. lanceolata L. and others. 
298. IVlicropus. Micropus. XIX, 54. 
1. Habit of a Filago! — Sandy fields; W. Y. 6 
erectus L 1133. 
299. Inula. Inule. XIX, 76. i 
1. Inner invol.-leaflets enlarged at the top, obtuse. Stem 
100 —150 cm. Fls and ls large, the latter velvety-tomen- 
tose underneath, the caul, oval-cordate. —Cultivated, es¬ 
pecially in mountain villages and sometimes subspon- 
taneous (Munstertlial in the Jura). 6 Helenium L. 1134. 
— Inner invol.-leaflets linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate 2 
