N. ORD._COMPOSITA. 81 
Tribe.—ASTEROIDEA. 
: GENUS.—INULA,* LINN, 
SEX. SYST.—SYNGENESIA, POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
INULA. 
ELECAMPANE+ 
SYN.—INULA HELENIUM, L. CORVISARTIA HELENIUM, MERAT. 
COM. NAMES.—ELECAMPANH, SCABWORT, (GER.) ALANT, (FR.) AUNEE. 
TINCTURE OF THE FRESH ROOT OF INULA HELENIUM, Z. 
Description.—This strikingly beautiful perennial attains a height of from 3 to 6 
feet. Root thick, mucilaginous, more or less tap-shaped, about 6 inches long, and 
1 to 2 inches thick in the largest part, having a curled furrowcommencing about an 
inch from the stem end, and running nearly to the tip ; somewhat branching, the 
branches generally longer than the main root, but not so thick. The bark is 
rough, laminated or flakey, showing upon section a thickness of from one-sixteenth 
to one-eighth of an inch. The inner portion is radiate with numerous bundles of 
fibers, and dotted generally with yellowish resin-cells. S/em erect, stout, rounded, 
downy above, branching? near the top. Leaves alternate, large, sometimes reaching 
a length of 18 inches and a breadth of from 4 to 6 inches; those near the root are 
ovate, petioled, the others: sessile partly clasping; all green above, and whitish 
downy beneath. Peduncles of the flower-heads are given off from the axils of 
the upper leaves, they are long, thick, sometimes furnished with a pair of small 
leaves midway in their length; such are the so-called branches, and bear usually 
more than one flower-head on separate pedicles. Involucre dense, woolly, the 
outer scales broadly ovate, sometimes leaf-like, the inner becoming at length 
linear. Mower-heads large, solitary or corymbose, all at or near the summit of 
the somewhat convex, naked, flat receptacles measuring about 1 inch 
ds are many-flowered, the vay-/lorets numerous and arranged 
generally in a single series, pistillate, but often infertile ; ge rays i, Sale un- 
equally three-notched at the tip, and generally clasping the pist | me . 
tube, Disk-florets many, tubular, perfect, the tube 5-toothed or lobed. tamens 
five, inserted on the corolla, their Anthers syngenesious, with two serrate tails at 
the hase  Onery oben: Style »-cleft at the apex. Achenia terete or doiaeiag 
the sides smooth ; pappus simple, composed of bristly hairs. A general descrip- 
tion of the Composite will be found under Eupatorium purpureum. 
the plant; 
in diameter. The hea 
bably a contraction of the word HELENIUM, éAésw», which was ap- 
* INULA, a Latin classical name for this plant, pro 
plied to the same species. Medizeval, ENULA. 
+ Ante-Linnzan name ENuLA CAMPANA, from which Elecampane, 
