Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6515.
HELICHRYSUM FRIGIDCM.
Native of Corsica.
Nat. Ord. COMPOSITE.•Tribe INULOIDE^:.
Genus HELICHKYST/M, Gtertn.; {Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 309.)
HELICHEYSTJM (Xerochl•na) frigidum; perenne, herbaceum, pumi]um,csespitosum,
ramis decumbentibus molliter argenteo-sericeis, foliis laxe inibricatis lineari-
oblongis obtusis integerrimis, capitulis terminalibus solitariis sessilibus basi
tomeotosis, involucri bracteis lineari-oblongis obtusis, interioribus albis elongatis
stellatim patentibus, acbaeniis serieeis, pappi setis paucis 1-seriatis scaberalis.
H. frigidum, Willd. Sp. PL vol. iii. p. 1908, and DC. Fl. Franc, vol. iv. p. 131 ;
Prodr. vol. vi. p. 177 ; Gren. et Godr. Fl. Franc, vol. ii. p. 186.
Gnapbalium bellidiflorum, Viv. Fragm. p. 16, t. 19.
Xeranthemum frigidum, Lab. PL Syr. Dec. vol. ii. p. 9, t. 4.
A very remarkable and scarce little alpine plant, found
hitherto nowhere but in the mountains of Corsica, at ele--
vations reaching to 6000 feet. It was long supposed ta
be also a native of Syria, it being described and figured by
the Syrian traveller Labillardiere (under the name of
Xeranthemum frigidum) as being found by him on Mount
Lebanon as well as in Corsica, and we have in the Kew
Herbarium a specimen of it from Labillardiere's own
herbarium, communicated by the late Mr. Webb, who
obtained the herbarium by purchase, and left it by will to
Florence, but it is not stated whether it is from Corsica or
Lebanon; as however it is identical with specimens from the
first-named country, it may be assumed to be a copatriot.
Boissier, in his Flora Orientalis (vol. iii. p. 239), states
under II. Blllardieri (a Lebanon species and very different
from II. frigidum) that H. frigidum is erroneously ascribed
to the Lebanon, and this is the general and, no doubt, correct
opinion.
I am indebted to Messrs. Backhouse for the opportunity
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1880.