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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



I NU 



where water stagnates in the winter, and even in the streets 

 of Lund. 



11. Inula Uliginosa; Small Dwarf or Marsh Jnula, or 

 Fleabane. Upper leaves stem-clasping, lanceolate, waved, 

 blunt; stem upright, woolly towards the top; calices cylin- 

 drical. Root annual, fibrous, whitish, jointed, generally 

 crooked; flowers terminating, numeious, broad, short, cylin- 

 drical, en single or branched leafy peduncles, the last-blown 

 standing considerably above the others. This plant is also 

 said to drive away fleas and gnats, and is given by some to 

 horses for the botts. Native of many parts of Europe, where 

 water has stagnated during the winter, by road-sides, on 

 the borders of ponds, &c. particularly in a stifHsh soil. It 

 flowers from August to October. It is seldom admitted into 

 gardens. 



12. Inula Arabica; Arabian Inula. Leaves oblong, ses- 

 sile; peduncles filiform ; calices cylindrical. This resembles 

 the preceding species so much, that it should be distinguished 

 from it with caution: the peduncles are longer, often in pairs; 

 ray of the corolla longer; disk narrow. Native of Arabia 

 and the East Indies. 



13. Inula Spirailblia; Spiraea-leaved Inula. Leaves sub- 

 sessile, ovate-oblong, naked, netted, clustered, serrulate ; 

 flowers terminating, subsessile. The flowers are scarcely 

 peduncled. Native of Italy. This, with the two next, and 

 the twenty-seventh species, are propagated by seeds, which 

 should be sown on a bed of light earth early in the spring. 

 In May the plants will appear, and should be kept clean from 

 weeds till they are fit to transplant ; when they should be 

 planted in an east border, at about twelve inches' distance 

 each way, watering and shading them till they have taken 

 new root; after which they will only require to be kept clean 

 from weeds till the autumn, when they should be planted 

 where they are designed to remain. 



14. hitila Squarrosa; Net-leaved Inula. Leaves sessile, 

 oval, even, netted-veined, subcrenate; calix squarrose. Stem 

 pubescent, striated, often one-flowered; root perennial. The 

 flowers are pretty large, of a pale yellow colour ; they appear 

 in July, but are not followed by seeds in this country. In 

 the autumn this plant puts on a different appearance : the 

 stalk dies, and several young ones spring from the root, like 

 those of the seventh species, weak, red, clammy-haired; leaves 

 soft, ovate-lanceolate, clammy-pubescent, sessile, with a smell 

 like Elder. It was long mistaken from the sixteenth ^pecies, 

 through the above variety in its habit. Native of Italy and 

 the south of France. This seldom continues above two or 

 three years, and therefore young plants should be constantly 

 raised from seeds to succeed the old ones. 



15. Inula Bubonium. Leaves lanceolate, somewhat rigid, 

 toothletted, suhvillose, sessile; stem and branches subbi- 

 florous; calix squarrose. Root perennial, consisting of nu- 

 merous long and thick fibres. The whole plant has some 

 smell, and a bitter unpleasant taste. It flowers in August 

 and September, and is a nativu of Austria. 



16. Inula Salirina ; Willow-leaved Inula. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, recurved, serrate, scabrous; branches angular; lower 

 flowers highest. Root perennial, aromatic, subastringent, 

 smelling like cinnamon ; flowers terminating on alternate, 

 one-flowered, grooved, reddish peduncles, forming all to- 



r a corymb. I ;om tire next species in having 



the stem smooili. .1 or angular at top, and the leaves 



smooth, except that the i .^ed. Native of Germany, 



s *'"" 'I ilu- south of France. 



Innl.t HirU; Hairy fnulu. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, 



ved. siibserrate-srabrons ; stem roundish, somewhat 

 hairy; lower flowers highest. Flowers handsome, an inch 



and a half in diameter. It flowers, with us, from June to 

 September. Native of France, Germany, Switzerland, Aus- 

 tria, and Siberia. 



18. Inula Mariana; American Inula. Leaves sessile, 

 lanceolate, gubserrate, hairy; peduncles subunifiorous, some- 

 what clammy, leaflets linear. The whole plant has soft 

 white hairs thinly scattered over it, especially the lower sur- 

 face of the leaves. The flowers terminate the stem in a 

 sort of corymb, but the peduncles or branches are commonly 

 one-flowered, with pedicelled glands scattered over them. 

 Native of Maryland and South Carolina. 



19. Inula Germunica; German Inula. Leaves sessile, 

 lanceolate, recurved, scabrous; flowers somewhat sickle- 

 shaped. Stem upright, a footer eighteen inches high, round, 

 pubescent, somewhat rugged, a little branched at top, and 

 curved towards the bottom; flowers small, terminating in a 

 sort of close umbel. Native of the south of France, Ger- 

 many, Austria, and Siberia. 



20. Inula Japonica ; Japanese Inula. Leaves sessile, lan- 

 ceolate, toothletted; peduncles rod-like, one-flowered. Stem 

 herbaceous, round, striated, villose, upright, a foot high and 

 more. Native of Japan. 



21. Inula Dubia; Doubtful Inula. Leaves sessile, ob- 

 long, ciliate ; stem cue-flowered. Stem herbaceous, simple, 

 striated, villose, as is the whole plant; fiexuose-erect, a foot 

 high, leafless at top; flower terminating, solitary; calix very 

 hirsute, equal. This plant is doubtful as to what genus,_it 

 belongs. Native of Japan. 



22. Inula Ensifolia ; Sword-leaved Inula. Leaves sessile, 

 linear, acuminate, nerved, smooth, scattered ; stem one or 

 two-flowered, annual. Root perennial. The flowers have a 

 little smell. Native of Austria, on rocks and among bushes: 

 flowering in August. 



23. Inula Crithmoides ; Trifid Inula, or Golden Sampire. 

 Leaves linear, fleshy, three-cusped. Root perennial, fibrous ; 

 stems firm, smooth, striated, much branched; flowers soli- 

 tary, on thick peduncles, at the summit of the upper branches, 

 very handsome, having yellow rays, and an orange disk. 

 According toMiller.it rises with an upiight stalk, a foot and 

 half high ; leaves succulent, fleshy, an inch and quarter long, 

 and one-eighth broad, ending in three points, and coming out 

 in clusters. It flowers in July, and ripens seeds in autumn. 

 The younger branches are frequently sold in the London 

 markets for Sampire; but it is a villanous imposition, because 

 this plant has none of the warm aromatic taste of the true 

 Sampire. See Crithmwn Maritimum. Native of the coasts 

 of the Mediterranean Sea, Arabia, Barbary, Spain, Portugal, 

 France, and England, in salt-marshes and a muddy soil. It 

 is plentiful near Sheerness, and in the Isle of Shepey; and 

 has been observed in a marsh near Hurst Castle, opposite to 

 the Isle cf Wi-ht; on the rocks at Llandwyo, in Anglesea ; 

 and on the banks of the river just above Fulbriil 

 Maldon in Essex. 



24. Inula Provincialis; Oval-km-rd Inn/a. Leaves subser- 

 rate, tomentose underneath; root-lf ;i.l"d, ovate; stem 

 upright, one-flowered. Flowers rather large; peduncle swell- 

 ing below the flower. Haller says this is a handsome plant, 

 with a woody root having abundance of fine fibres. U 

 flowers in July and August. Native of the south of France, 

 where it was found about Narbonne; on the Corbicres.a pait 

 of the Pyrenees ; also in the upper Valais, and on the moun- 

 tains of Piedmont. 



25. Inula Montana; Mountain, Inula. Leaves lanceolate, 

 hirsute, quite entire; stem one-flowered; calix short, imbri- 

 cate. Root hard, fibrous; flowers large; florets of the disk 



vnnerous, of the ray as far as thirty, br 



