COMPOSITE. 



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eastern Germany. In Britain, 

 neither in Ireland nor Scotland. 



as far north as Westmoreland, but 

 Fl. summer and autumn. 



4. Common Inule. Inula dysenterica, Linn. (Fig. 502.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1115. Fleabane.) 



Rootstock perennial, with ascending 

 or erect stems 1 to 2 feet high, loosely 

 branched, and, as well as the foliage, 

 more or less downy or woolly. Leaves 

 oblong, much waved, clasping the stem 

 with rounded auricles. Flower-heads 

 pedunculate in the upper axils or at the 

 ends of the branches, hemispherical, 

 rather more than half an inch in diame- 

 ter, with a ray of very numerous, linear, 

 spreading florets of a bright-yellow. In- 

 volucral bracts also numerous and nar- 

 row. Pappus-hairs few and shorter than 

 in the three preceding species, and 

 enclosed at the base in a minute mem- 

 branous cup. 



In wet pastures, ditches, and road- 

 sides, in central and southern Europe 

 and western and central Asia, extending 

 northwards to the Baltic. Abundant in 

 southern England and Ireland, becoming rare in the north, and scarcely 

 found in Scotland. Fl. summer and autumn. This and the following 

 species are sometimes separated as a genus, under the name of 

 Fulicaria. 



Fig. 502. 



5. Small Inule. Inula Pulicaria, Linn. (Eig. 503.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1196. Fleabane) 



An erect, branching annual, seldom a foot high, with narrower and 

 less woolly leaves than the common J., which it resembles in manj^ re- 

 spects. Elower-heads much smaller, and the florets of the ray, although 

 very numerous, yellow, and spreading, are so short as at first sight 

 to escape observation. The minute outer scales of the pappus are dis- 

 tinct, not forming a little cup as in the common I. 



