442 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-SUPERF. Inula. 



Engl. Bot. V. ]6.t. 1115. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 56. Hook. Scot. 

 245. H. Dan. ^ 410. Bull. Fr. t. 299. Ehrh. PL Off. 128. 



Aster n. 79. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 33. 



Conyza media. Raii Syn. 174. Ger. Em.4S2.f. Matth. Valgr. 

 V. 2. 224./. Lob. Ic. 345./. Dalech. Hist. 1 045./ Bauh. Hist. 

 V.2. 1050./. 



C. media vulgaris. Clus. Hist. v. 2.21./. Pann. 526. 



C, tenia. Camer. Epit. 614./ 



Calaminthue tertium genus. Fuclis. Hist. 436./. /c. 246./. 



Common Flea-bane. Petiv. H. Brit. 1. 16./ 2. 



In watery places by road sides, and in clear ditches, common. 



Perennial. August. 



Root creeping. Herb more or less woolly or cottony, glutinous, 

 with a peculiar acid aromatic scent, somewhat like the flavour of 

 peaches. Stem 12 or 18 inches high, round, branched, leafy, 

 cottony, corymbose at the summit, with many bright yellow 

 flowers, whose disk is of rather a deeper hue than their numerous 

 narrow spreading rays. Leaves spreading, acute, veiny and 

 wrinkled, slightly toothed or serrated, an inch or two long, ses- 

 sile, clasping the stem with their heart-shaped, or arrow-shaped, 

 base ; the under side cottony. Calyx-scales numerous, very 

 narrow and acute, woolly. Seeds bristly, obovate. Down rough. 

 Recept. slightly cellular, unequally toothed, or scaly. Mr. Rel- 

 han mentions a variety with very short rays. 



Haller speaks contemptuously of the medical virtues of this plant 

 because, as he says, it abounds with earthy matter. Linnaeus, in 

 Ft. Suec. ed. 2. 294, records, on the authority of General Keith, 

 that it cured the Russian army of the Dysentery; — hence the 

 specific name. 



3. I. pulicaria. Small Flea-bane. 



Leaves clasping the stem, wavy. Stem much branched, 

 hairy. Flowers hemispherical ; radius scarcely longer 

 than the disk. 



I. pulicaria. Linn. Sp. PL 1238. fVilld. v.3. 2093. Fl. Br. 892. 



EngL Bot. V. ]7. t.W 96. Hull ed. 2. u. 1. 244. Curt. Lond. 



fasc. 3. t. 57. Ehrh. PL Off. 458. FL Dan. ^ 613. 

 I. uliginosa. Sihth. 256. 

 I. cylindrica. fVith.73\. 

 Aster n. 80. HalL Hist. v. 1 . 33. 

 Conyza minor. Raii Syn, 174. Matth. Valgr. v. 2.223. f. Camer. 



EpiL 613./ Trag. Hist. 1 66./ 

 C. minima. Dad. PempL 52. f. Ger. Em. 482./ Lob. Ic. 345./. 



Dalech. Hist. 1045. f. 

 C. mediae minor species, flora vix radiato. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1050; 



descr. only. 

 Psyllium. Cord. Hist. 154. f. 



