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343. INULA. 

 Inula Helenium. L. Elecampane. 



Leaves clasping, ovate, wrinkled, downy under- 

 neath; scales of the calyx ovate. 



A tall, rank, yellow flowering plant. Stem three or four feet 

 high, straight, branching at top. Leaves very large, ovate, 

 serrate, veiny and downy beneath, those of the root petioled, 

 those of the stem clasping. Flowers somewhat like those of 

 Helianthus. Florets of the ray numerous, yellow, linear, three 

 toothed at the end. — Road sides, introduced from Europe. — 

 July, August. — Perennial. 



Inula falcata. Ph. Sickle leaved Inula. 



Woolly and hairy ; leaves sessile, linear, very acute, 

 falcated ; pediuicles corymbed. 

 Syn. Chrysopsis falcata. Beck. 



A small erect species, covered with thick downy wool on the 

 stem, and fine hairiness upon the veins of the leaves, flower- 

 stalks and calyx. Leaves several inches long, very narrow, 

 curved laterally, many of them falcated at the end. Flowers 

 showy, yellow. Calyx leaves acute. — In Smithfield,R. I. — Mr. 

 Eddy. — August. — Perennial. 



344. ERIGERON. 



Erigeron bellidifolium. Willd. Robin's Plantain. 



Hairy; radical leaves obovate, subserrate, stem 

 leaves distant, lanceolate, entire ; stem about three 

 flowered; ray elongated. 

 Syn. Erigeron pulchellum. Mx. 



Stem erect, simple, hairy, furrowed. Root leaves spatulate, 

 or obovate, sessile, hairy, wilh a few teeth toward the end- 

 Stem leaves oblong, half clasping, hairy, entire, waved, the 

 upper ones acute. Flowers few in number, on short, simple, 

 hairy stalks. Bractes ovate, acuminate. Calyx cylindrical, 

 hardly imbricated, its scales acute, appressed. Ligules of the 

 ray numerous, linear, pale purple. Disc yellow, shorter than the 



