CLASS XIX. ORDER IU. ] PULICARIA. 1075 
awl-shaped scales, imbricated. lorets numerous, the outer ones 
ligulate, three toothed at the end, forming a ray, those of the disk 
tubular, five-cleft. Fruit ovate. Pappus of rough white erect bristly 
hairs. 
Habitat.—Salt marshes and rocks near the sea, in the South and 
West side of England and Wales; as far North as Golloway Howth, 
Treland. 
Perennial ; flowering in August. 
GENUS XXXIII. PULICA’RIA.—Gea@rtn. flea-bane. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'rm. Juss. 
Gey. Cuar. Jnvolucrum imbricated. Florets of the ray ligulate, 
imperfect. Anthers bristle pointed at the base. Receptacle 
naked. Pappus double, the outer short, membranous, cup- 
shaped, toothed or crenated on the margin, the inner of elongated 
hairs.— Name pulex, a flea; so called from the supposition that 
fleas are driven away by the smell of some of the species. 
1. P. dysenter'ica, Cass. (Fig. 1275.) Common Flea bane. Leaves 
oblong, wrinkled, downy, especially beneath, cordate or sagitate at 
the base, and embracing the woolly stem, branched above ; involucre 
scales setaceous. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 306.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
143.—Inula, Linn.—English Botany, t. 1115.—English Flora, vol. 
iii. p. 441. 
Root somewhat creeping. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, 
round, striated, woolly, leafy, branched above. Leaves oblong lanceo- 
late, dark green, and slightly downy above, pale and woolly beneath, 
yeiny, wrinkled, waved or toothed on the margin, from one to two 
inches long, sessile, and heart-shaped or arrow-shaped at the base, the 
lobes embracing the stem. Inflorescence sub-corymbose. Flowers 
numerous, bright yellow. Involucre woolly, its scales very numerous, 
bristle-shaped. Florets of the circumference long, ligulate, three 
toothed at the end, those of the circumference tubular, five-cleft. 
Fruit obovate, bristly. Pappus the outer rim narrow, crenated, the 
inner of bristly hairs. Receptacle somewhat cellular, and toothed. 
Habitat—Moist shady places; frequent in England, rare in 
Scotland ; Mull of Galloway, and Bennanhead, Arran; the County 
of Dublin, Ireland. 
Perennial ; flowering in August. 
The whole plant is somewhat glutinous, and has a slight acrid 
aromatic smell, resembling the flavour of peaches. It once had the 
reputation as a valuable medicinal plant in the cure of dysentery, 
from which reason it obtained its specific name; but its virtues are 
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