composite. 103 
met or of the achene, surrounding the inner pappus like a cup. 
Plant green, more or loss greyish from the abundance of the soft 
pubescence. Leaves soft, rugose. 
Greater Fleabane. 
French, Aunee Di/ssentcrique. German, Ruhr-Flohkraut. 
Tiiis plant is also sometimes called "the Wild Marigold," and "Job's tears" by 
the Aral's, who have a tradition that its bruised leaves were applied by Job as a 
remedy for his grievous diseases ; and it is still held by them in high repute as a cure 
for wounds. Dr. Withering states that the Russian soldiers, in the Persian expedition 
under General Keit, were much relieved from dysentery by the use of this plant. It 
is bitter and astringent. Though so common a plant in many parts of our island, it 
docs not appear to have been ever much used by British herbalists. 
SPECIES VI.— INULA PULICARIA. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXXI. 
UeicJi. Ic. PI. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXXIII. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2091. 
Fnlicaria vulgaris, Giirtn. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 478. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 
ed. ii. p. 395. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 3. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 
p. 179. Reich, fl. 1. c, p. 17. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 175. Hook, k Am. 
Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 256. 
Rootstock none. Stem much and irregularly branched through- 
out, the lateral branches overtopping the main stem. Lower leaves 
oblanceolate, upper ones oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, semi-am- 
plexicaul, but with scarcely any auricles, undulated and entire or 
remotely toothed at the margin, sparingly clothed with soft hairs. 
Peduncles slightly thickened upwards. Anthodes paniculate, corym- 
bose, numerous, rather small. Pericline sub-globose-campanulate ; 
phyllaries linear, with setaceous points, herbaceous with only the 
tips scarious, very hairy and glandular on the back. Elorets 
of the ray few, in one row, with the ligule strapshaped, sub-erect, 
slightly exceeding the phyllaries, concave, toothed at the apex. 
Achenes hairy. Outer pappus with the scales of which it is com- 
posed divided into bristles ; inner pappus half as long as the 
tubular florets. 
In places which have been under water during the winter, and 
by damp roadsides. Rather rare, and sparingly distributed in 
the South of England, where it occurs as far North as Cambridge, 
Warwick, and Norfolk. 
England. Annual. Autumn. 
Stem erect or ascending, repeatedly branched, 3 to 18 inches 
