64 ORD. Ill. Composite. 
INULA HELENIUM, COMMON INULA, Or, 
ELECAMPANE. 
SYNONYMA. Enula Campana. Pharm. Lond.. Helenium. 
Gerard Emac. p.793. Raii Hist. p. 273. Synop. p.176. Hele- 
nium vulgare. Bauh Pin. p.276. Helenium sive Enula campana. 
- J. Bauh. Hist. iti. p. 108. Park. Theat. p. 654. Aster foliis ovato- 
lanceolatis, serratis, subtus tomentosis, calycinis ovato-lanceolatis, 
maximis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 72. Inula Helenium. Hudson 
Flor. Ang. p. 368. With. Bot. Arr. p. 922. Flor. Dan. 728. 
Smith Flor. Brit. 890. Flor. Dan. 728. 
Class. Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 956. 
iss. Gen. Ch. Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Anthere basi in 
setas duas desinentes. 
Sp. Ch. T. foliis amplexicaulibus ovatis rugosis subtus tomentosis, 
calycum squamis ovatis. 
THE root is perennial, large, thick, branched, externally brown 
or grey, internally whitish: the stalk is upright, strong, round, 
striated, branched, beset with soft hairs, and rises three or four feet 
in height: the leaves are large, ovate, serrated, crouded with reti- 
cular veins, supplied with a strong fleshy midrib, on the upper 
pagina smooth, on the under downy: the leaves, which are placed 
on the upper part of the stem are sessile, and surround the branches, 
but those towards the bottom stand upon footstalks: the flowers . 
are large, yellow, of the compound kind, and terminate the stem 
and branches: the calyx is composed of several rows of strong 
imbricated ovate segments: the corolla consists of numerous florets, 
which are of two kinds; those occupying the centre are of a regular 
tubular form, divided at the brim into five small segments, and are 
hermaphrodite, each containing five short filaments, which have their 
