102 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
hairs, the outer * r ery short, crown-like, formed of scarious scales, 
denticulated or split into hairs at the apex. 
. SPECIES V.— I NULA DYSENTERIC A. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXX. 
j;-,rh. Ic. PI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXXIII. Fig. 1. 
.Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 387. 
Pulicaria dysenterica, Giirtn. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 479. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et 
J I civ. ed. ii. p. 395. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scaud. p. 3. Gr. &, Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 
]>. 179. Rdcli.fi 1 . 1. c, p. 17. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 175. Hook. &. Am. Brit. 
Fl. ed. viii. p. 256. 
Rootstock perennial, creeping, stoloniferous. Stem corym- 
bosely branched at the apex, or slightly branched throughout, 
the lateral branches scarcely overtopping the main stem. Lower 
leaves oblong-oblanceolate, middle ones oblong-lanceolate, upper 
ones lanceolate ; all amplexicaul, with large blunt auricles, undu- 
lated, entire or remotely serrate, thickly covered with very short 
soft hairs, particularly beneath. Peduncles not thickened upwards. 
Anthodes corymbose, rather few and large, solitary or in small 
secondary simple corymbs at the extremity of the stem and 
branches. Pei'icline hemispherical ; phyllaries linear, with seta- 
ceous points, herbaceous with only the tips scarious, pilose and 
glandular. Florets of the ray numerous, in several rows, with the 
ligule linear, spreading, much longer than the phyllaries and 
pappus, flat, toothed at the apex. Achenes hairy. Outer pappus 
cup-like, the scales of which it is composed combined at the base, 
and denticulate at the apex ; inner pappus about as long as the 
tubular florets. 
In moist places and by the banks of ditches, roadsides, and pas- 
turcs. Generally distributed in England, and very common in the 
South ; rare in Scotland, not known to occur north of lladdington 
and the island of Islay. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
llootstock extensively creeping and stoloniferous. Stems erect, 
8 inches to 2 feet high, round, striate, sparingly hairy. Lower 
Leaves decayed at the time of flowering, and more attenuated at the 
l>ns<> than the upper ones; those on the stem spreading. Pedun- 
cles woolly, naked, without bracts beneath the phyllaries. An- 
thodea broadei than long. Pericline about -i- inch in diameter. 
Clinanth with the pits surrounded by elevated margins. Achenes 
pale-brown. Pappus with the interior row much longer than the 
aehene, brownish- white, the exterior row not longer than the dia- 
