40 FLORA HOMQOPATHICA. 
radicles, and when macerated has a peculiar odour like apples, 
and an astringent taste. The stem is about a foot high, but in 
alpine situations very often not above six inches, simple, 
obscurely angular. The Jeaves are ovate, entire. The stem- 
leaves twin, and opposite, of a glossy green colour, veined, and 
lighter on the dorsal side. The flowers are bright yellow, 
having a deeper colour as they fade, about two inches in 
diameter, and placed on upright terminal peduncles. Calyx 
cylindrical, composed of rough, hairy scales. The ligulaie 
florets are about sixteen to eighteen in number, three-toothed, 
and striated, twice as long as the calyx, hairy at the base. Seeds 
are oblong, blackish, and crowned with a straw-coloured down. 
There are twelve different species of Arnica. 
1. Arnica montana, as above. 
2. A. philoselloides. Mouse-eared Arnica. “Leaves perfectly 
entire, elliptic, villose; scape one-flowered, woolly; calyx 
equalling the ray ;” the stem and leaves covered with down; 
leaves two or three inches long, and about half this breadth, 
hairy, especially on the back, pointed ; scape twice as long as 
the leaves, very woolly towards the top; flower large ; calyx 
tomentose, of the length of the ray; florets of the ray very 
narrow, of a dark red or purple colour, and male. A native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
3. A. scorpioides. Alternate-leayed Arnica (Jacq. Flor. Aust. 
hi. t. 349). Roots contorted, supposed to be like a scorpion ; 
stems several, from six inches fo a foot in height, terminated by 
a deep yellow flower of two inches diameter 3 root-leaves 
roundish, deeply serrated, on long foot-stalks. The whole plant 
has a strong, disagreeable smell. Native of Switzerland, Savoy, 
Dauphiné, etc. 
4. A. doronicum. (Jacq. Flor. Aust., i. t. 92; Arn. clus 
allion. ped. ; Arn. Stiriaca; Villars Dauph., 210). Leaves hairy ; 
stem four to eight inches in height, and never bears more than 
one flower. A native of the high Alps of the Grisons, Dauphiné, 
Piedmont, and Austria. : 
