FLEABANE 95 



plant living on a clay soil, the moisture requirements regulating the 

 rock-soil habitat. 



Two beetles, Anaspis frontalis, Longitarsus flavicornis, and the 

 Lepidoptera, Burnished Brass (Plusia chrysitis], Botys lancealis, Con- 

 chylis rupicola, Coleophora troglodytella, Pterophora microdactylus, 

 Dictopteryx shepherdana, and the flies, Chromatomyia albiceps and 

 Trypeta zoae, can be found on it. 



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

 King of Pontus, and cannabinum means hempen. 



It is called Bastard Agrimony, Dutch, Hemp, and Water Agri- 

 mony, Andurion, Fila^ra, Hemp, Bastard and Water Hemp, Hemp- 

 weed, Raspberries and Cream. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



150. Enpatorium cannabinum, 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, Gray) 



The present distribution of this plant, which is common, is Europe 

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

 in deposits earlier than the present day. In Great Britain it is found 

 in the Peninsula, Channel, Thames, Anglia, and Severn provinces 

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

 in Montgomery and Merioneth, and in the Trent, Mersey, H umber, 

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

 lands except in Renfrew, Lanark, in Berwick, Hadclington, 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 damp places this common autumn 

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

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

 shaped, 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 those below. 



The flowerheads are yellow, conspicuous, large in proportion to the 



