168 45. COMPOSITE. 
—St. 3—4 feet high, round, furrowed, solid, leafy, branched 
above. Heads few together or solitary, terminal, very large; 
florets bright yellow. Phyll. reflexed.—Moist pastures. P. VII. 
VIII. = Elecampane. EL 
2. I. Conyza (DC.); phyll. all linear, |. ovate-lanceolate downy 
denticulate, lower 1. narrowed into a footstalk, florets of the ray 
subligulate, fr. terete—Conyza squarrosa Sm., E. B. 1195.—St. 
1—2 feet high, leafy. Heads corymbose. Phyl). reflexed, leafy. 
FI. yellow, those of the circumference between tubular and ligu- 
late, deeply divided on the inner side.—Calcareous soils. P. VII. 
—-IX. Plowman’s Spikenard. E. 
3. I. erithmoides (L.); phyll. linear taper-pointed, 1. fleshy 
linear obtuse or with 3 points.—£. B. 68.—St. about a foot high, 
slightly branched near the top, each branch terminating in a 
solitary head with an orange-coloured disk and yellow rays.— 
On rocks and in muddy salt marshes by the sea. P. VII. VIII. 
Golden Samphire. 
10. (12.) Punicarta Gaert. 
1. P. vulgaris (Gaert.); 1. lanceolate wavy narrow at the base 
and somewhat clasping, st. much branched downy, heads lateral 
and terminal hemispherical with very short rays.— Inula Pulicaria 
Sm., E. B. 1196.—St. 6—12 in. high, leafy. Heads small, florets 
yellow. Fr. terete. Outer pappus setulose-laciniate.—Moist sandy 
heaths. A. VIII. IX. 
2. P. dysenterica (Gaert.) ; . oblong cordate at the base clasp- 
ing obsoletely toothed downy beneath, st. panicled woolly, heads 
axillary and terminal corymbose, rays much longer than the disk. 
—Inula Sm., E. B. 1115.—St. 12—18 in. high, leafy. Heads 
larger than in No. 1, bright yellow, fr. angular. Outer pappus 
cuplike, crenulate-—Damp places. P. VIII. IX. Fleabane. 
Tribe III. Senecioidee. 
Style of the hermaphrodite florets cylindrical with long linear 
branches terminated by a bunch of hairs or sometimes extending 
beyond the hairs into a short cone or elongated appendage. 
Stigmatic lines broad and prominent and extending as far as the 
hairs. 
Section 1. HELIANTHEAS. Heads usually heterogamous 
and radiant, or homogamous and discoid. Anth. without ap- 
pendages. caper paleaceous throughout or only near the 
margin. Cor. of the hermaphrodite florets with thickened lobes. 
Pappus aristate in our plants. 
