464? 230. Inula. 39. COMPOSITE, C. PL ex. cat 
Damp fields and pastures; perennial; June to August. 
Root thick, fleshy ; stem upright, 3 feet high ; radical 
leaves petioled ; calai hides solitary, terminal, very large.— 
Root in infusion pectoral, used in the hooping-cough; in 
decoction cures the scab in sheep ; yields a peculiar prin- 
ciple, inulin, resembling starch and gum. 
LVI. 231. ERITHEIS. Golden-samphire . 
Pericline hemispherical ; scales unequal, imbricate, awl- 
shape, fleshy, outer ones weak, become all reflexed ; cala - 
t hides radiated; flowers all fertile: of the centre herma- 
phrodite; corollae membranaceous, lobes coriaceous: of the 
rays many, female, yellow ; ligulae linear, 3-toothed ; hasil- 
lary appendix of the anthers very short ; style much swollen 
at the base ; clinanthus flat, honeycombed, bald ; akenium 
compressed, hispid ; pappus simple, hairlike, rough. — Herb 
perennial, bald, fleshy ; pericline bald ; corollce yellow* 
Eritheis marilima . Sea g olden- samphire. 
Leaves linear, fleshy ; tip 3-cut. 
Aster maritimus fiavns, Crithmum chrysanthemum dictus, Raii Syn . 174,1 „ 
Crithmum chrysanthemum, Ger. em. 533,3; Park. 1287. 
Inula crithmoides, Lin. S. P. 1240. 
Inula crithmifolia, Hull Br . FI. 185. 
Aster palustris, Lamarck FI. Fr. 214. 
Muddy sea-shores ; perennial ; August. 
Root creeping ; stem upright or decumbent, mostly sim- 
ple ; leaves crowded ; peduncles corymbose, terminal, scaly ; 
calathides large. 
LV1I. 232. EURYBIA. Cassine. Hogs-beans. 
Pericline hemispherical; scales imbricate, unequal, pressed 
close, coriaceous, without an appendix ; calathides radiated ; 
flowers all fertile; of the centre hermaphrodite; of the 
rays many, female; ligulae oblong, blue or white; clinan- 
thus flattish, dotted, bald; ahenia uniform, compressed; 
pappus simple, hairlike, rather rough. — Herb perennial, 
smooth. 
Euryhia maritima. Sea hogs * beans , 
Stem bald, corymbose ; leaves linear, lanceolate, fleshy, 
3-ribbed ; lower leaves slightly serrate at the apex ; peri - 
cline-scales lanceolate, blunt* 
