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GENUS XX.— 1 N U L A. Linn. 



Anthodes generally heterogamous and radiant, many-flowered. 

 Pericline hemispherical or campanulate, consisting of numerous 

 roAYS of imbricated herbaceous phyllaries, the outermost ones 

 sometimes foliaceous. Clinanth flat, naked, slightly pitted. 

 Florets of the disk perfect, regular, with a tubular corolla ; those 

 of the ray generally in 1 row, female, ligulate, rarely tubular with 

 a ligulate limb so short as not to exceed the phyllaries. Anther- 

 lobes produced downwards into filiform appendages. Achenes 

 sub-cylindrical or prismatic. Pappus of hairs in 1 row, or in 

 2 rows, with the outer one of very short hairs or cleft scales. 



Perennial or annual herbs, with alternate leaves ; and mode- 

 rately-sized or large solitary, corymbose or paniculate anthodes, 

 with the florets both of the disk and the ray yellow. 



The name of this genus of plants is said to be a corruption from Helen, as being 

 fabled to have sprung from her tears. 



Sub-Genus I.— COEVISAUTIA. 31erat. 



Achenes 4-sided- prismatic, finely striate all round, truncate 

 at the apex. Pappus of a single row of shortly-ciliated hairs. 



SPECIES L— INULA HELENIUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXVI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Hal v. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXI. 



Corvisartia Helenium, Herat. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 173. Reich, fit. 1. c. 

 p. 12. 



Stem corymbosely branched at the top, hairy. Radical leaves 

 stalked, elliptical ; stem-leaves (except the lowest) sessile, those 

 in the middle of the stem ovate, amplexicaul ; all finely and irregu- 

 larly dentate-serrate, sub-glabrous above, greyish-velvety beneath. 

 Anthodes few, very large, sub-solitary at the extremity of the stem 

 and branches. Pericline hemispherical ; outer phyllaries obovate- 

 rhomboidal, foliaceous, lax, with spreading tips ; inner ones 

 oblanceolate-strapshaped, coriaceous, pubescent on the back and 

 ciliated. Plorets of the ray numerous, with the ligule spreading, 

 much longer than the phyllaries and pappus, flat, tootlied at 



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