108 
& pusillum. 
FRATIAN, 
Helenium, 
POLYGAMIA, SUPERFLUA. 
adopting his characters. But asI have so repeatedly found it in 
all the grades of stature from two or three inches up to four 
feet, I am rather inclined to suspect that it is a polymorphous 
plant, assuming all those different sizes and shapes, from the 
influence of situation, soil, &c. It appears to be possessed of 
medicinal properties. (See a paper in the Transactions of the 
New-York Physico-Medical Society, by Dr. De Puy, vol. 1, p. 
49, accompanied with a good figure.) In cultivated fields, on 
commons, road-sides, and particularly on the borders of brick- 
ponds, every where, unfortunately, in prefusion. Annual. All 
summer. 
erect, low and slender; stem smooth; panicle 
nearly simple ; peduncles almost naked, filiform 
and divaricate ; leaves lanceolate-linear, all en- 
tire, margin scabrous; discal florets 4-cleft. 
316. INULA. Gen. pl. 1295. ( Corymbifere.) 
Caliv squarrose or imbricate. Rays of the 
corolla numerous, yellow. Anthers each 
bisetose at the base. Receptacle naked. 
Pappus simple.—Nutt. 
1. I. villose ; leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, at- 
tenuated at the base, obtuse, glandular-denticu- 
late; lower ones petiolate, serrate ; peduncles 
axillary, corymbose, glandular, hairy.—Willd. 
and Pursh. 
I. glandulosa, Lamark. 
Icon. Mill. dict. ic. t. 57. 
Wild Elecampane. Yeliow-aster. 
From six to fifteen inches high. Flowers large, yellow. In 
woods and on road-sides, where the soil is arid or sandy; 
every where common. Perennial. August, October. 
2.1. leaves amplexicaule, ovate, rough, tomen- 
tose beneath; calix with ovate scales.-—Willd. 
Icon. Fl. Dan. 728. Engl. Bot. 1546. Wood- 
ville’s Med. Bot. vol. 2. t. 108. 

