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POLYGAMIA, SUPERFLUA. 
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adopting his characters. But as I 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 ail those diderent 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. l,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 profusion. Annual. All 
summer. 
^pusiiiim. erect, low aocl slender; stem smooth; panicle 
nearly simple ; peduncles almost naked, filiform 
and divaricate; leaves lanceolate-linear, all en- 
tire, margin scahroiis; discal liorets 4-cleft. 
316. INULA. Gen. pi. 1295. (^Corymbifcra.') 
Calix squarrose or imbricate. Mays of tlie 
corolla immerous, yellow. Anthers each 
bisetose at the base. Meceptacle naked. 
Pappus simple.— JV* utt. 
mriana. 1. I. villose ; leavcs sessile, oblong-lanceolate, at- 
tenuated at the base, obtuse, glandular-denticu- 
late ; lower ones petiolate, sen*ate ; peduncles 
axillary, corymbose, glandular, hairy.— 
and Pursh. 
I. glandiilosa, Lamark. 
icon. Mill. diet. ic. t. 57. 
Wild Elecampane, Fellow-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. 
Heiemiim. 2. I. leaves amplexicaule, ovate, rough, tomen- 
tose beneath ; calix with ovate scales.— 
Icon. FJ. Ban. 728. Engl. Bot. 1546. Wood- 
ville^s Med. Bot. vol. £. t. 108. 
