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XLVI. COMPOSITE : CORYMBIFER^ 



l^I'niila 



Achenes of the disk hairy ; of the ray glabrous (or slightly halrv. 



2. D. plarda gineiim L. {Plantain-leaved L.) • leaves toothed 

 radical ones on naked stalks ovate or slightly cordate produced 

 at the base, cauline ones sessile except the lowest which has 

 a winged stalk with amplexicaul auricles, intermediate ones 

 cordate oblong, upper ovate-acuminate, aclienes of the rnv 

 glabrous. D. Pardalianclies E. B. t. 630. '^ 



Salinghall, and Widdington, Essex ; Yorkshire. Den of Dunnlln • 

 Saline, lifeshire; Cleish ; &c. 2^. 6, 1.~-Stem simple or branched' 

 heads on long leafless peduncles. The allied D. scorpioides has the 

 achanes of the ray as hairy as those of the disk. 



40. Tnula Linn. Inula. 



AcJienes terete or angled. Pappus pilose, in 1 row. Recep. 

 tack naked. Involucre imbricated. Anthers with bristles at 

 their base. {Floivers yellow.) - Name said to be a contraction 

 ot Helemum the plant being supposed to have sprung from the 

 tears of Helen. -^ . » 



1. I. HeUnium L. (Elecampane) ; leaves amplexicaul some- 

 what toothed ovate wrinkled, downy beneath, outer scales of 

 the involucre ovate downy reflexed leafy, inner ones obovate 

 ray twice as long as the disk, achenes 4-angled glabrous. E. B. 



Moist pastures, rare, but found in several places of En-land and 

 Ireland Not wild in Scotland. 2^. 7, 8. - ^^e™ 3-5^ hS 

 blanched Heads large, terminal, solitary, with many narrow, tricus^ 

 pidate yellow ?•«?/*. ' j "ilus- 



2. I. Cor,yza DC. {PlouglimaiU Spikenard) ; leaves pubes- 

 cent ovate-lanceolate serrate the upper ones entire, stem her- 

 baceous corymbose scales of the involucre all linear recurved 

 lenfy, ray scarcely longer than the disk, achenes terete sli-htly 

 hairy. Conyza squarrosa L. : E. B. t. 1195. ° 



Frequent on chalky or clayey soils. Rare, if really wild, In Scot- 

 and. 0_. 8--10. - 5-fem 2-3 feet high. Pamcfeleafv, with the 

 leaves entire. Lower /.a„e. stalked. Heads almost disco d:^.' 

 of the circumference very small, filiform with a short ligule. 



<^e?ernllvtwf'l^; (f^^'^'^^^P^^re); leaves Knear flesliy 

 Snre Id linpn "^ •*^'! extremity, scales of the involucre 



.ippies ed linear acummate, ray nearly twice the leno-tla of 

 the disk, achenes terete villous. E. B.t. 68. 



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 ir^th-rtird ' ^^.'''''I'y ^^ /^.^^^'-^^^ .^.^ .^^^'^-y - Scotland. 



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One foot high, a little branched at 



the summit, each branch bearing a solitary hcZJ of /olers. 



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