^64. 230. Inula. 39. COMPOSITE, C. P/. ex, cat 



Damp fields and pastures : perennial ; June to August. 



Root thick, fleshy ; stem upright, 3 feet high ; radical 

 leaves petioled ; calathides solitary, terminal, very large. — • 

 Root in infusion pectoral, used in the hooping-cough; in 

 decoction cures the scab in sheep ; yields a peculiar prin- 

 ciple, inulin, resembling starch and gum. 



LVI. 231. ERITHEIS. Golden-samphire. 



Pericline hemispherical ; scales unequal, imbricate, awl- 

 shape, fleshy, outer ones weak, become all reflexed ; cala- 

 thides radiated ; flowers all fertile : of the centre herma- 

 phrodite; coroUse membranaceous, lobes coriaceous: of the 

 rays many, female, yellow ; ligulae linear, 3-toothed ; hasil- 

 lary appendix of the anthers very short ; style much swollen 

 at the base^ clinanthus flat, honeycombed, bald ; akenium 

 compressed, hispid ; pappus simple, hairlike, rough. — Herb 

 perennial, bald, fleshy ; pericline bald ; corolloe yellow. 



Eritheis marilima. Sea golden-samphire. 



Leaves linear, fleshy ; tip 3-cut. 



Aster maritimus flaviis, Critliniura chrysanthemum dictus, Eaii Syn. 174,1. 

 Crithmum chrysanthemum, Ger. em, 533, 3; Park. 1^87. 

 Inula critlimr)ides, Lin. S. P. 1240. 

 Inula crithmifolia, Bull Br. Ft. 185. 

 Aster palustris, Lamarck Fl. Fr. 214. 



Muddy sea-shores; perennial; August. 



Root creeping ; stem upright or decumbent, mostly sim- 

 ple ; leaves crowded ; peduncles corymbose, terminal, scaly : 

 calathides large. 



LVII. 232. EURYBIA. Cassine. Hogs-leans. 



PericZzVze hemispherical; scales imbricate, unequal, pressed 

 close, coriaceous, without an appendix; calathides radiated; 

 flowers all fertile; of the centre hermaphrodite; of the 

 rays many, female; ligulae oblong, blue or white; clinan- 

 thus flattish, dotted, bald; akenia uniform, compressed; 

 pappus simple, hairlike, rather rough. — Herb perennial,, 

 smooth. 



Eurybia maritima. Sea hogs* beansi. 



Stem bald, corymbose ; leaves linear, lanceolate, fleshy, 



3-ribbed ; lower leaves slightly serrate at the apex ; peri" 



cline-scales lanceolate, blunt* 



