COMPOSITE. 103 



meter of the aclieno, siirroundin;:? the inner pappus like a cup. 

 Plant screen, more or less greyish iVoiu the ahundance of the soft 

 puhcsfcucc. Leaves soft, rugose. 



Greater Fleabane. 



Frencli, Annie Di/ssentirique. German, Ruhr-Flijhhraut. 



Tliis ]ilaiit is also sometimes called "the Wild Marigold," and "Job's tears" by 

 tlie Arabs, wlio have a tradition that its bruised leaves were applied by Job as a 

 remedy for his grievous diseases ; and it is still held by them in high i-epute as a cure 

 for wounds. Dr. Withering states that the Russian soldiers, in the Persian expedition 

 under General Keit, were much relieved from dysentery l)y the use of this plant. It 

 is bitter and astringent. Though so common a plant in many parts of our island, it 

 does not ajipear to have been ever much used by British herbalists. 



SPECIES VI.— I NULA PULICARIA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXXI. 



lieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CJIXXXIII. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2091. 



Pulicaria vulgaiis, Gartn. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 478. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 



ed. ii. i>. 395. Fiies, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 3. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 



p. 179. lieicli.Jil. 1. c, p. 17. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 175. Ilook. &, Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 256. 



Rootstoek none. Stem much and irregularly branched through- 

 out, the lateral branches overtopping the main stem. Lower leaves 

 oblanceolate, upper ones oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, semi-am- 

 plexicaul, but with scarcely any auricles, undulated and entire or 

 remotely toothed at the margin, sparingly clothed with soft hairs. 

 Peduncles slightly thickened upwards. Anthodes paniculate, corym- 

 bose, numerous, rather small. Pericline sub-globose-campanulate ; 

 phyllaries linear, Avith setaceous points, herbaceous with only the 

 tips scarious, very hairy and. glandular on the back. Elorets 

 of the ray few, in one row, with the ligule strapshaped, sub-erect, 

 slightly exceeding the phyllaries, concave, toothed at the apex. 

 Achencs hairy. Outer pappus with the scales of which it is com- 

 posed divided into bristles ; inner pappus half as long as the 

 tubular florets. 



In places which have been under water during the winter, and 

 by damp roadsides. Rather rare, and sparingly distributed in 

 the South of England, where it occurs as far North as Cambridge, 

 Warwick, and Norfolk. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 

 Stem erect or nsceuding, repeatedly branched, 3 to 18 inches 



