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C II R Y S O C O M A Linosyris*
Flax-leaved Goldy-locks.
SYNGENESTA Polygamia cequalis.
Gen. Char. Flowers discoid. Receptacle naked*
Down simple. Calyx hemispherical, imbricated*
Style scarcely longer than the florets.
Spec. C har. Herbaceous* Leaves linear, smooth*
Scales of the calyx loosely spreading.
Sy s . Chrysocoma Linosyris* Linn. Sp. PI. 11/8*
FI. Suec. 283. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 3. l 6’3 *
TVilld. Sp. PI. v. 3 - 1791.
Linaria aurea T rag i. Oer. em.554.
1STO tidings of thé present plant, as a native of Britain, have
ever reached us, till it was discovered, flowering early in September
1812, by the Rev. Charles Holbech, of Farnborough,
Warwickshire, growing in great plenty, amongst a turf of coarse
grasses, on the rocky cliff of Berryhead, Devon, about two hundred
paces from the westernmost battery, on the Dartmouth side,
indubitably wild. This is the small variety, which alone, as Linnaeus
tells us, grows in the south part of the isle of Oeland. The
plant is mentioned as a native of most parts óf Germany, as well
as of Switzerland, and the south of France. It is scarcely cultivated
but in botanic gardens. As we find no coloured figure
cited, ours will be the more generally acceptable. Some old
authors appear to have described and figured this Chrysocoma
twice over, misled by its variableness of magnitude.
The root is perennial and creeping, with long stout fibres.
Stem erect, round, rigid, simple, smooth, leafy, a foot high, or
not so much. Leaves numerous, scattered, linear, acute at each
end, entire, rather fleshy, rough with minute white points.
Flowers few', terminal, corymbose, of an uniform yellow; their
stalks hardly scaly in our specimens. Florets about thirty,
uniform, acute. Seeds hairy. Down minutely rough. Cells of
the receptacle w ith a slight jagged border, not amounting to sea-
liness.