COMPOSITE. 103 



meter of the acliene, surrounding the inner pappus like a cup. 

 Plant green, more or less greyish from the abundance of the soft 

 pubescence. Leaves soft, rugose. 



Greater Fleahane. 



French, Aunee Dyssenterique. German, Ruhr-Flohkraut. 



This plant is also sometimes called " the Wild Marigold," and " Job's tears " by 

 the Arabs, who have a tradition that its bruised leaves were applied by Job as a 

 remedy for his grievous diseases ; and it is still held by them in high repute as a cure 

 for wounds. Dr. Withering states that the Russian soldiers, in the Persian expedition 

 under General Keit, were much relieved from dysentery by the use of this plant. It 

 is bitter and astringent. Though so common a plant in many parts of our island, it 

 does not appear to have been ever much used by British herbalists. 



SPECIES VI.— I NULA PULICARIA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXXI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XYI. Tab. CMXXXIII. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2091. 



Pulicaria viUgaris, Gartn. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 478. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 



ed. ii. p. 395. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 3. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 



p. 179. Reich, fil. 1. c, p. 17. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 175, Hooh & Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 256. 



E-ootstock none. Stem much and irregularly branched through- 

 out, the lateral branches overtopping the main stem. Lower leaves 

 oblanceolate, upper ones oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, semi-am- 

 plexicaul, but with scarcely any auricles, undulated and entire or 

 remotely toothed at the margin, sparingly clothed with soft hairs. 

 Peduncles slightly thickened upwards. Anthodes paniculate, corym- 

 bose, numerous, rather small. Pericline sub-globose-campanulate ; 

 phyllaries linear, with setaceous points, herbaceous with only the 

 tips scarious, very hairy and glandular on the back. Plorets 

 of the ray few, in one row, with the ligule strapshaped, sub-erect, 

 slightly exceeding the phyllaries, concave, toothed at the apex. 

 Achenes hairy. Outer pappus with the scales of which it is com- 

 posed divided into bristles ; inner pappus half as long as the 

 tubular florets. 



In places which have been under water during the winter, and 

 by damp roadsides. E-ather rare, and sparingly distributed in 

 the South of England, where it occurs as far North as Cambridge, 

 "Warwick, and Norfolk. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 

 Stem erect or ascending, repeatedly branched, 3 to 18 inches 



