Pulicaria.] COMPOSITE. 



1. E. cannabinum, Linn. Common Hemp-agrimony. Leaves 

 in three, or five, deep lanceolate segments ; the middle one 

 longest. Br. Fl. 1. p. 354. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 400. E. Bot. 

 t. 428. 



Banks of rivers and watery places, common. FL July, Aug. 1 . 

 Stem three to four feet high, branched. Leaves downy. Flowers 

 very numerous, thickly crowded in terminal corymbs, of a pale reddish 

 purple. Style longer than the corolla, deeply cleft. Plant slightly 

 aromatic. 



2. INULA. Linn. Elecampane. 



Involucre imbricated, its scales spreading ; outer ones, especi- 

 ally, foliaceous. Anthers with bristles at their base. Recep- 

 tacle naked. Pappus simple. Flowers yellow. Name ; 

 said to be the same as Helenium, having sprung from the 

 tears of Helen. Syngenesia. Superftua. 



1. I. Helenium, Linn. Elecampane. Leaves ovate, rugged, 

 clasping the stem, downy beneath. Br. Fl. 1. p. 362. E. Fl. 

 v. iii. p. 440. E. Bot. t. 1546. 



Moist meadows, rare. At Calnafersy, near Killarney. On high 

 ground between Miltown and Tralee ; Dr. George Clarke. Sea- 

 shore near Bantry, and by the Sullane river, County of Cork ; Mr. J. 

 Drummond. Banks of a rivulet near Glenarm ; Mr. Templeton. 

 Devinish Island, near Enniskillen ; Mr. J. Johnston. Fl. July, Aug. 

 1. Three to five feet high. Flowers large, terminal, solitary, with 

 many narrow, tricuspidate, yellow rays. 



3. LIMBARDA. Adans. Golden-Samphire. 



Involucre with imbricated, narrow scales. Anthers with bristles 

 at the base. Receptacle naked. Pappus simple, rough. 

 Named from Limbarde, as the plant is called in some parts 

 of France. Syngenesia. Superftua. 



1. L. crithmoides. Golden- Samphire. Leaves linear, 

 fleshy, generally 3-toothed at the extremity. Br. Fl. 1. 

 p. 363. Limbarda tricuspis, Cassini. Lindl. Inula crith- 

 moides, Linn.E. Fl. v. iii. p. 442. E. Bot. t. 68. 



Sea-shore on the south side of the Hill of Howth, in muddy places ; 

 on steep banks, and in crevices of rocks, below the Rev. Doctor Mac 

 Donnell's cottage, on the south side of Killiney Hill, and on Lambay 

 Island, abundant. Fl. Aug. Sept. 1 . One foot high, a little branched 

 at the summit, each branch bearing a solitary flower. In habit very 

 different from the preceding genus, as it is from the following. 



4. PULICARIA. Gertn. Flea-bane. 



Involucre hemispherical, closely imbricated with narrow scales. 

 Anthers with bristles at the base. Pappus double; outer 



