FLEABANE 95 



plain living' on a clay soil, the moisture requirements regulating' the 

 rock-soil habitat. 



Two beetles, Anaspis fi-ontalis, Loiigitarsits fliwicoriiis, and the 

 Lc[)idoptera, Burnished Brass [P/iisia c/irysi7/s), Bolys lanccalis, Coii- 

 cliyiis rupicola, Colcophora tros;lodytel/a, Ptcroplwra niicrodactylus, 

 Dictopteryx shcphcniaiia, and the tlies, Cliroinatoiiiyia aibiceps and 

 Trypeta zoae, can be tound on it. 



Hiipatoriuni, Dioscorides, is from Eupator, a name of Mithridates, 

 King' of Pontus, and cannahiiiuni means hempen. 



It is called Bastard Agrimony, Dutch, Hem|), and Water Agri- 

 mony, Andurion, Filaiira, Hemp, Bastard and Water Hemp, Hemp- 

 weed, Raspberries and Cream. 



Essential Specific Characters: — 



150. Enpatoriiun cannabimnu, L. — Stem erect, rough, reddish, 

 leaves downy, opposite, leaflets 3-5 -cleft, lanceolate, serrate, flower- 

 heads lilac or reddish, in a terminal corymb, with long, deep, divided 

 styles, pubescent, pappus pilose. 



Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica, Gra\) 



The present distribution of this plant, which is coninion, is Eurojie 

 from Denmark southwards, and North Africa, but it is not known 

 in deposits earlier than the present day. In Great I)ritain it is found 

 in the Peninsula, Channel, Thames, Anglia, and .Se\ ern provinces 

 generally, in S. Wales except in Cardigan, in North Wales except 

 in Montgomery and Merioneth, and in the Trent, Mersey, Huml)er, 

 Tyne, and Lakes provinces. In Scotland it is found in the W. Low- 

 lands except in Renfrew, Lanark, in Berwick, Haddington, .Stirling, 

 Clyde Islands, Cantire, S. Ebudes, E. Ross. It is rare in Scotland, 

 but common in Ireland. 



Fleabane is a common hygrophyte, delighting in all damp places, 

 such as the vicinity of ponds, lakes, and meres. It grows frequently 

 beside brooks, rivers, and ditches, and in the reed-swamp. It is also 

 a common member of marsh and bog formations. 



Growing in extensive patches in <lamp places this conimon autuiiin 

 wild flower has an erect, much-branched stem, rigid and downy or 

 cottony. The leaves are alternate, close, oblong, lance-shaped, heart- 

 shaf)ed, or arrow-shaped at the base, and clasping the stem, rough 

 above, downy or cottony below. The numerous branches are erect, 

 the upper ones longer than tliose below. 



The flow^erheads are yellow, consi)icuous, large in proportion to the 



