102 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



hairs, the outer very short, crown-like, formed of scarious scales, 

 denticulated or split into hairs at the apex. 



SPECIES Y.— INULA DYSENTERICA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXXIII. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 387. 



Pulicaria dysenterica, Gcirtn. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 479. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et 



Helv. ed. ii. p. 395. Fries, Sura. Veg. Scand. p. 3. Gr. & Goclr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 



p. 179. Reich, fil. 1. c, p. 17. Bab'.Md.n. Brit. Bot. p. 175. Hooh. & Am. Brit. 



Fl. ed. viii. p. 256. 



E/Ootstock perennial, creeping, stoloniferous. Stem corym- 

 bosely branched at the apex, or slightly branched throughout, 

 the lateral branches scarcely overtopping the main stem. Lower 

 leaves oblong-oblanceolate, middle ones oblong-lanceolate, upper 

 ones lanceolate ; all amplexicaul, with large blunt auricles, undu- 

 lated, entire or remotely serrate, thickly covered with very short 

 soft hairs, particularly beneath. Peduncles not thickened upwards. 

 Anthodes corymbose, rather few and large, solitary or in small 

 secondary simple corymbs at the extremity of the stem and 

 branches. Pericline hemispherical ; phyllaries linear, with seta- 

 ceous points, herbaceous with only the tips scarious, pilose and 

 glandular. Plorets of the ray numerous, in several rows, with the 

 ligule linear, spreading, much longer than the phyllaries and 

 pappus, flat, toothed at the apex. Achenes hairy. Outer pappus 

 cup-like, the scales of which it is composed combined at the base, 

 and denticulate at the apex ; inner pappus about as long as the 

 tubular florets. 



In moist places and by the banks of ditches, roadsides, and pas- 

 tures. Generally distributed in England, and very common in the 

 South ; rare in Scotland, not known to occur north of Haddington 

 and the island of Islay. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Pootstock extensively creeping and stoloniferous. Stems erect, 

 8 inches to 2 feet high, round, striate, sparingly hairy. Lower 

 leaves decayed at the time of flowering, and more attenuated at the 

 base than the upper ones ; those on the stem spreading. Pedun- 

 cles woolly, naked, without bracts beneath the phyllaries. An- 

 thodes broader than long. Pericline about \ inch in diameter. 

 Clinanth with the pits surrounded by elevated margins. Achenes 

 pale-brown. Pappus with the interior row much longer than the 

 achene, brownish-white, the exterior row not longer than the dia- 



