N T ULA PULICARIA, SMALL FlEABANE. 



INULA Lin. Gen. Plant, SyngenesiA PolygamiA Superflua, Recept, nudum. Pappus {implex. 



Anthers bafi in fetas duas definentes. 

 Maik Syn. 'Gen. 7. Herbje floRe composito, semine papposo non lactescentes, 



FLORE DISCOIDE. 



INULA Pulicaria foliis amplexicaulibus undulatis, caule proftratOj floribus fnbglobofis. Lin* Sp. PL 



p. 1238. 

 ASTER foliis amplexicaulibus, undulatis* hirfutis, radiis brevifftmis. Halier. Uift. n. 80» 

 ASTER Pulkarlus. Scopoli Pi. Cam. n. 1080. 

 CONYZA minor flore globofo. Bauh'm pin. 266, 



CON Y-Z A minima. Gerard emac, 482. Rail Syn. p. 174. fmall Fleabane^ 

 JPudfon. PL Angl. p. 369. 

 Oeder. PL Dan. icon. 613. 



RADIX annua, fibrofa, albida, articulata, plerumque 



curvata. 

 CAULIS fpithamasus, raro ultra pedalem, nobifcUm 



plerumque erectus, ramoliffimus, teres, pur- 



purafcens, pubefcens, fubflexuofus ; Rami al- 



terni, cauli fimiles. 



FOLIA alterna, oblongo-lanceolata, amplexicaulia, 

 hirfutula, undulata, tortuofa. 



FLORES parvi, numerofi, haemifphaerici, lutei, fiim- 

 mitatibus ramulorum infidentes, peduncu- 

 lati; pofl nati fupra primes eminentes. 



CALYX communis imbricatus*, fquamae numerofaa, 

 in*equales, fublineares, erect.33, tomentofae. 



COROLLA compofita': 'Corolluke Hermaphrodito' 

 aequales, numeroliffimEe in dico, limbo quin- 

 quefido, ereclo, extus minutiffime glaudulofo, 

 Jig. 5, Peminece ligulatae, numerofae, eonfertae 

 in radio ; carina ad lentem fcabriufcula, limbo 

 B?'eviffimo, plerumque tridentato. Jig. 1. 



STAMINA: FilamEntA quinque, Capillaria; An- 

 therje flavae, longitudine corollae, fingulis 

 fetis duabus tenuiffimis ad bafin inftructis. 

 jig. 9, 10, 11. 



PISTILLUM : Germen Hermaphroditis et Feminaeis 

 oblongum, teres, album, pilis rigidulis fub- 

 appreffis hirfutum. Jig. 2, 4. Stylus co- 

 rolla longior ; Stigma bifidum, lacinis re- 

 flexis. Jig. 3, 6. 



SEMEN oblongum, nigricans, hifpidulum, teres,- 

 pappo nmplici, rigidulo, fragili, longitudine 

 feminis coronatum. Jig. 8. 



RECEPTACULUM nudum, pundis prominulis fca- 

 brum. fig. J. 



ROOT annual, fibrous, whitifh, jointed, generally 

 crooked. 



STALK from feven inches to a foot in height, feldom 

 more, with us generally upright, very much 

 branched, round, purplifh, downy, fome- 

 what crooked ; Branches alternate, and like 

 theflalk. 



LEAVES alternate, oblong, and lanceolate, embra- 

 cing the ltalk, ilightly hairy, waved at the 

 edges and twifted. 



FLOWERS fmall, numerous, hemifpherical and yel- 

 low, fitting on the tops of the branches and 

 having foot ftalks, the laft blown ltanding 

 considerably above the others. 



CALYX common to many florets, fcales lying one 

 over another, numerous, almoft linear, up- 

 right, equal and woolly. 



COROLLA compound, Hermaphrodite Florets equal, 

 exceedingly numerous in the center, the limb 

 divided into five upright fegments, and ex- 

 ternally very minutely glandular, Jig. 5. Fe- 

 male Florets in the circumference flat at the 

 extremity, numerous, clofe together, the 

 keel or midrib underneath a little rough, the 

 limb veryj/jort, ufually terminating in three 

 teeth. Jig. 1. 



STAMINA: five Filaments, very fine ; Antherje 

 yellow, the length of the corolla, each fur- 

 nimed at bottom with two flender fetae or 

 briftles. /£. 9, 



10. 11. 



PISTILLUM .: Germen both in the Hermaphrodite 

 and Female Florets oblong, round, white, 

 hirfute with ftiffim hairs which are fomewhat 

 prefs'd to it ; Jig. 2, 4, Style longer than 

 the corolla ; Stigma 

 turning back. fig. 3. 6. 



SEED oblong, blackifh, round . 



crownM with a fimple, ftiffifh, brittle down, 

 the length of the feed. Jig. 8. 



RECEPTACLE naked, roughifh from little promi* 

 nent points. Jig. 7, 



bifid, the fegments 

 and a little hifpid, 



LINNAEUS in his Genera Plantarum informs us that the Inula is principally characterized by having two fmali 

 Seta or Brijlles proceeding from the bafe of each Anthera, and that it is by this circumftance in an eipecial man- 

 ner diftinguimed from the Genus After, yet notwithstanding this, both Halier and Scopoli have thought proper to 

 join it with that genus ; although a peculiar character, it might perhaps be confidered by them as too minute 

 to found a Genus on, in this lpecies it requires a good eye and fome fmall dexterity to difcover them, yet they 

 are fufficiently vifible ; independent of them however, there is on the face of the two genera fuch an evident 

 diffimilarity that a ftudent would never expect to find then arranged together 



This fpecies k not fo common as the djjenterica, nor is it like that a perennial. — It generally grows in places 

 overflowed in the winter, on the borders of Ponds particularly in a itiffifh foil and flowers in September. 



