COMPOSITAE 



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toothed, villous while young; upper leaves distant, smaller; 

 heads many, in large panicles, the pedicels 1-3 cm. long; in- 

 volucres subglobose, about 9 mm. long, 18-20 mm. wide; 

 bracts 5-seriate, acute, gray-hirsute on back, the outer corolla 



6 mm. long; achenes cylindric, 1.5 mm. long, hirsute, 10- 



ribbed; pappus sordid-rubesccnt, 6 mm. long. Kyushu 



(Yakushima and Tanegashima). Ryukyus. 



7. INULA L. 



Oguruma Zoku 



Perennial glabrous or villous somedmes glandular-pilose herbs often woody at base; inflorescence a corymb or panicle; heads 

 sometimes solitary; leaves alternate, entire; heads heterogamous; involucres globose to campanulate, the bracts many-seriate, 

 often nearly equal; receptacle glabrous, alveolate; pistillate flowers marginal, 1- to many-seriate, fertile, the corollas ligulate, yel- 

 low, 3-toothed; perfect florets many, the corollas 5-toothed; anthers sagittate, tails setiform; style branches in perfect florets 

 linear, rounded at apex, minutely papillose on back; achenes pilose or glabrous, many-ribbed; pappus-bristles many, mostly 

 equal, setulose. About 100 species, in Eurasia and Africa. 



1 A. Radical leaves rosulate 1 . /. ciliaris 



IB. Radical leaves not rosulate. 



2A. Achenes glabrous; veinlets of leaves raised beneath 2. /. salicina var. asiatica 



2B. Achenes pilose; veinlets of leaves not raised beneath 3. /. hritannica 



1. Inula ciliaris (Miq.) Maxim. Erigeron ciliaris Miq. koku, Kyushu. Korea, Manchuria, and Siberia. The typi- 



MizuciKU. Stems 25-50 cm. long, subscapose, densely cal phase occurs in Europe and w. Siberia. 



hairy or glabrescent at base, rarely slighdy branched; radical 3. Inula britannica L. var. chinensis (Rupr.) Regcl. 



leaves rosulate, spreading, spathulate, 4-10 cm. long, 8-15 /. japonica Thunb.; /. britannica var. japonica (Thunb.) Fr. 



mm. wide, obtuse or subacute, entire, hairy at first, becoming & Sav.; /. britannica sensu auct. Japon., non L.; /. chinensis 



glabrate; cauline leaves becoming gradually smaller in upper Rupr. ex Maxim. Oguruma. Stems 20-60 cm. long, ap- 



part, few, obsoletely clasping at base; upper leaves ovate- pressed-pilose, sometimes glabrescent; radical and lower leaves 



lanceolate, obtuse, broadly clasping at base; uppermost leaf smaller than the median; median leaves lanceolate to oblong, 



8-10 mm. long; heads solitary or few; involucres subglobose, 5-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, subacute, abruptly narrowed at 



8-10 mm. long, with many subtending bracteal leaves; bracts base, sessile or semiclasping, loosely mucronate-serrulate, ap- 



4- or 5-seriate, equal, sparsely glandular, the outer narrowly pressed-pilose or nearly glabrous on both surfaces; upper leaves 



oblong, densely hairy; ligulate florets yellow, glandular-dotted, gradually smaller; heads few or solitary, sometimes with sub- 



14-15 mm. long; achenes about 1.5 mm. long, 10-ribbed, tending bracteal leaves; involucres subglobose, 7-8 mm. long, 



loosely pilose; pappus whitish, about 4.5 mm. long, the bristles 15-17 mm. across; bracts 5-seriate, nearly equal, the outer 



scaberulous. June-Oct. Wet places; Honshu (Kinki Distr. lanceolate, the inner narrow, scarious, ciliolate; ligulate florets 



andeastw.). 1-seriate, the corollas yellow, 16-19 mm. long; achenes about 



Var. glandulosa Kitam. Oze-mizuciku. Leaves be- 1 mm. long, lO-ribbed, pilose; pappus about 5 mm. long, the 



neath densely glandular-dotted. Honshu (Ose in Kotzuke). bristles minutely scabrous. June-Oct. Wet places in low- 



2. Inula salicina L. var. asiatica Kitam. /. invohtcrata lands, especially along rivers; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, 



Miq., non Kalenic; /. {{itamurana Tatew. ex Kitam., in syn. Kyushu; common. Korea, Manchuria, and China. Cv. 



Kasen-s6. Stems slender, 60-80 cm. long, densely Plena. Yae-oguruma. A double-flowered cultivar. 



leaved, pilose, branched at the tip; radical leaves scalelike, Var. ramosa Komar. Eda-uchi-oguruma. Stems to 1 



becoming larger in the upper ones; median leaves charta- m. long, branched in upper part; heads many, small; leaves 



ceous, lanceolate, 5-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, gradually nar- lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; involucral bracts nearly all 



rowed at tip, acute, broadly clasping at base, loosely mucro- alike. Kyushu, Shikoku Korea, Manchuria, and China. 



nate-toothed, ciliate, scabrous on upper surface, scattered pilose Var. linariaefolia (Turcz.) Regel. /. linariaejolia Turcz.; 



on the veinlets beneath; upper leaves becoming smaller and I. britannica suhsp. linariaejolia {Turcz.) K\tsm.\ I. britannica 



reduced to bracts below the involucres; involucres subglobose, var. maximowiczii Regel Hosoba-oguruma. Stems 30- 



about 1 cm. long, about 2 cm. wide; bracts about 4-seriate, the 70 cm. long; median leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 4-9 cm. 



outer broadly lanceolate, acute, ciliolate, spreading or as- long, 6-10 mm. wide, recurved on margin, glandular-dotted 



cending, the inner linear, gradually narrowed at tip; ligulate beneath; involucres 4-6 mm. long, 8-14 mm. across; bracts 



corollas about 9 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 3-toothed; achenes 4-seriate, glandular-dotted; ligulate corollas 8-10 mm. long, 



about 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, 10-ribbcd; pappus about 8 mm. glandular-dotted on back; pappus about 3 mm. long. Hon- 



long. July-Sept. Wet places; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shi- shu, Kyushu. Korea, Manchuria, China, and Siberia. 



8. CARPESIUM L. 



Yabu-tabako Zoku 



Branched perennials; leaves alternate, entire or toothed; heads all discoid, heterogamous; involucres subglobose or depressed- 

 globose; bracts 3- or 4-scriate, the outer herbaceous or with herbaceous appendages, the inner scarious, oblong, obtuse, sometimes 

 acute; receptacle flat; pistillate florets marginal, many-seriate, the corollas 3- to 5-toothcd; die bisexual florets fertile, many, the 

 corollas 4- or 5-toothed, yellowish; anthers sagittate with setiform appendages; style of bisexual florets linear, rather flat, rounded 



at apex; achenes glabrous, many-grooved, with a short glandular beak, crowned by a cartilaginous ring; pappus absent. Ten 



species or more, Eurasia. 



