OLASS XIX. ORDER II. ] INULA. 1073 
Perenuial ; flowering in August and September. 
This is the only known species of the genus, and is remarkable 
from its thick woolly clothing and small flowers, almost concealed by 
its thick involucre scales, as well as in the structure of the flowers 
and fruit. It is not unfrequent on the coast of Spain, Portugal, and 
the shores of the Mediterranean. 
ORDER II. 
POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Florets of the centre with tubular corollas perfect, (having stamens 
and pistils) those of the circumference imperfect, (having pistils 
only), the corolla ligulate, and forming a ray). 
GENUS XXXII. INU'LA.—Liny. Hlecampane 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tm. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Jnvolucre imbricated. lorets of the ray ligulate, im- 
perfect. Anthers bristle pointed at the base. Receptacle naked, 
Pappus hairy, in a single row.—Name of doubtful origin. 
1. I. Helen'ium. Linn. (Fig. 1272.) Hlecampane. Leaves unequally 
dentato-serrated, downy beneath, the radical ones elliptic oblong, 
petiolated, the upper ovate, heart-shaped, acuminate, amplexicaul ; 
involucre with the outer scales leafy, downy, ovate, the inner linear, 
spatulate. 
English Botany, t. 1546.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 441.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 306.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 143. 
Root fleshy, thick, branched, bitter, and mucilaginous, with an 
aromatic odour. Stem erect, three to four feet high, round, furrowed, 
branched, and downy, especially the upper part. Leaves numerous, 
darkish green, and smooth above, white, with thick close pubescence 
beneath, the margin unequally toothed or serrated, the lower leaves 
large, about a foot long, elliptic oblong, or lanceolate, with a long 
footstalk, those of the stem ovate, heart-shaped, acute, embracing the 
stem at the base, large, the uppermost ones small, often lanceolate 
Flowers large, terminal, solitary, about two inches across, bright 
yellow. Jnvolucre of numerous scales, the outer ones leafy, ovate, 
downy, the inner ones lanceolate, spatulate, nearly smooth. lorets 
very numerous, those of the ray ligulate, with a long narrow limb, 
unequally three toothed at the end, the central ones tubular, five- 
cleft. Fruit quadrangular, smooth. Pappus of rigid rough bristly 
hairs. Receptacle reticulated. 
