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COilPOSIT.'E 



the upper ones sessile, araplexicaul ; lieAds terminal, solitary, or 

 nearly so, 3 in. across, bright yellow ; brac'ts broadly ovate, downy. 

 — Meadows ; not common and often only a naturalised escape. 

 It was formerly cultivated as a tonic, and its rhizome is still 

 candied and furnishes the Vin d'Aulnci of the P^'rench, being 

 considered valuable in disea:,cs of the lungs. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



2. /. squarrosa (IMoughinan's Spikenard). — An erect, downy 

 plant, 2---5 feet high ; leaves dull green ; ovate-lanceolate, downy, 



toothed, 3 — 5 in. long, the 

 lower ones stalked ; lieetds in a 

 branched corymb, numerous, 

 dingy yellow, with leaf-like 

 brads, the outer of which are 

 blunt ^nd revolute, and incon- 

 spicuotis ray-florets. — Banks 

 chielly: on a calcareous soil ; 

 not ulicommon. — Fl. July — ■ 

 September. Biennial. 



3. Z salicina, a nearly gla- 

 bious species, 12 — 18 in. high, 

 with narrow, toothed leaves 

 and terminal, solitary lieads, 

 I .T in. across, is found only on 

 the shores of Lough I )erg, 

 Galway. 



4. I. crilliinoiJes ((\o\dcn 

 Samphire). — "Well distinguish- 

 ed from every other British 

 plant, glabrous, yellow-green, 

 6 — 18 in. high, slightly 

 branclied, with numerous very 

 narrow, fleshy, blunt or 2 — 4- 

 pointed leaves, and solitary 



-Salt marshes and sea-cliffs in 

 Perennial. 



:aria i.n'?E>iT^:Ric.A 



golden-yellow heads, i in. across. - 

 the west ; rare. — Fl. July, August. 



II. PuiJCARiA (Flea-bane). — 1 )ilferuig from linda chiefly in 

 having the bracts loosely imbricate in a few rows, and an outer 

 row of short scales to the /nif^pus. (Xame from the Latin pnlex, 

 a flea, the strong smell of the plant, or its pollen, being supposed 

 to drive away fleas.) 



I. P. dyseiiten'ea (Common Flea-bane). -hrom 1 — :; feet high, 

 growing in masses, and well marked by its woolly stem : soft, 



