1076 ASTER. [CLASS XIX. ORDER 11, 
so slight, that it has fallen into disuse. The flowers are sometimes 
found with the ray very short. 
2. P. vul'garis, Gertn. (Fig. 1276.) Small Flea-bane. Leaves ob- 
long, lanceolate, waved, rounded at the base, sessile, and sub-am- 
plexicaul; stem much branched, paniculated, hairy; flowers lateral 
and terminal; ray very short. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 306.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
143.—Inula pulicaria, Linn.—English Botany, t. 1196.—English 
Flora, vol. iii. p. 442. 
Root branched, fibrous. Stem erect, about eight inches high, 
round, finely hairy, often purplish, much branched and spreading. 
Leaves few, scattered, elliptic oblong, acute, entire or waved upon the 
margin, hairy, sessile, narrowed at the base, embracing the stem. 
Flowers terminal and axillary, solitary, small, pale yellow. florets 
tubular, five-cleft, the marginal ones ligulate, three toothed, forming a 
very short ray. Jnvolucre downy, of linear acute scales, nearly all 
of the same length. /ruit quadrangular, downy. Pappus double, 
the outer rim membranous, toothed, the inner of erect rough rather 
short bristly hairs. Receptacle tuberculated, and somewhat hairy, or 
smooth. 
Habitat—Moist sandy places, especially where water has stood ; 
not common in England: not found in Scotland or Ireland. 
Annual ; flowering in September. 
GENUS XXXIV. AS'TER.—Liyy. Star-wort. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'T&. Juss. 
Grn. Cuar. Jnvolucrum imbricated, the scales linear, acute. /lorets 
of the ray ligulate, imperfect, usually purple, those of the disk 
tubular, perfect, yellow. Receptacle naked. Fruit compressed. 
Pappus hairy, in many rows.—Name aster, a star; from the 
resemblance of the flower to a star. 
1. A Tripo'lium, Linn. (Fig. 1277.) Sea Star-wort, or Michaelmas 
Daisy. Leaves linear lanceolate, fleshy ; stem smooth, branched, 
sub-corymbose; involucre imbricated, the scales lanceolate, obtuse, 
membranous. 
English Botany, t. 87.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 427.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 304.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 143. 
Root fibrous, the whole plant smooth, a somewhat glaucous green. 
Stem erect, round, branched, from a few inches to two or three feet 
high, leafy. Leaves fleshy, linear lanccolate, with an obtuse point, 
the upper ones sessile, the lqwer and radical ones tapering into a 
footstalk, larger. Flowers numerous, terminating the stem and 
branches in sub-corymbose clusters. IJnvolucre imbricated, smooth, 
