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GENUS XX.— I N U L A. Linn. 
Anthodes generally heterogamous and radiant, many-flowered. 
Pericline hemispherical or campanulate, consisting* of numerous 
rows of imbricated herbaceous pliyllaries, the outermost ones 
sometimes foliaceous. Clinanth flat, naked, slightly pitted. 
rets of the disk perfect, regular, with a tubular corolla; those 
of the ray generally in 1 row, female, ligulate, rarely tubular with 
B Ligulate limb so short as not to exceed the pliyllaries. Anther- 
lobes produced downwards into filiform appendages. Achenes 
sub-cylindrical or prismatic. Pappus of hairs in 1 row, or in 
2 rows, with the outer one of very short hairs or cleft scales. 
Perennial or annual herbs, with alternate leaves ; and mode- 
rately-sized or large solitary, corymbose or paniculate anthodes, 
with the florets both of the disk and the ray yellow. 
The name of this genus of plants is said to be a corruption from Helen, as being 
fabled to have sprung from her tears. 
Sub-Genus I.— CORVISAIITIA. MSrat 
Achenes 4-sided- prismatic, finely striate all round, truncate 
at the apex. Pappus of a single row of shortly-ciliated hairs. 
SPECIES I— INULA HELENIUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXVI. 
Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXI. 
tia Helenium, Herat. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 173. Reich, fl. 1. c. 
p. 12. 
Stem corymbosely branched at the top, hairy. Radical leaves 
stalked, elliptical ; stem-leaves (except the lowest) sessile, those 
in the middle of the stem ovate, amplexicaul ; all finely and irregu- 
larly dentate-serrate, sub-glabrous above, greyish-velvety beneath. 
Anthodes few, very large, sub-solitary at the extremity of the stem 
and branches. Pericline hemispherical; outer pliyllaries ohovate- 
rhomboidal, foliaceous, lax, with spreading tips ; inner ones 
oblanceolate-strapshaped, coriaceous, pubescent on the back and 
ciliated. Florets of the ray numerous, with the ligule spreading, 
much longer than the phyllaries and pappus, flat, toothed at 
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