104 LNGLISU BOTANY. 
high. Leaves numerous, small, withering at the base of the stem 
before the flowers expand. Pericline £ to f inch across, with the 
ray inconspicuous from its being short and nearly erect. Achenes 
brown, hairy. Inner pappus of few hairs, shorter than the achene ; 
outer one of scales divided to the base. Plant dull-green, slightly 
pubescent and somewhat clammy. 
Lesser Fleabane. 
French, Aunee Commune. German, Gemeines Flbh/craut. 
The common name of this plant originates in a belief that its scent is obnoxious to 
fleas. Gerarde says : " The herb, burried where flies, gnats, fleas, or any venemous things 
are, doth drive them away." 
Tribe VIIL— ERIGEBINEJE. 
Leaves alternate or all radical. Anthodes generally hetero- 
gamous and radiant. Florets of the disk tubular, perfect, of the 
ray generally female and ligulate. Anthers without basal appen- 
dages. Style of the perfect flowers with the branches compressed, 
flat above, often acuminate at the apex, with the stigmatic lines 
marginal, conspicuous, usually not extending quite to the apex 
of the branches. Achenes generally compressed, with or without 
ribs. Pappus usually present, composed of hairs, rarely palea- 
ceous or crown-like. 
GENUS XXI.—B ELLIS. L 
inn. 
Anthodes heterogamous and radiant, many- flowered. Pericline 
hemispherical, at length disciform, consisting of 2 rows of nearly 
equal herbaceous phyllarics. Clinanth conical, naked, pitted. 
Florets of the disk perfect, regular, with a tubular corolla ; those 
of the ray numerous, in a single row, female, with a ligulate 
corolla. Achenes compressed from back to front, margined, 
without ribs. Pappus none. 
Perennial or annual herbs, nearly stemless, with the leaves in 
rosettes. Anthodes solitary, on naked scapes. Florets of the disk 
yellow, of the ray white, purple, or red. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from the word belhis, pretty. 
SPE CI ES I — B ELLIS PERENNIS. Linn. 
Tlate DCCLXXir. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXVIII. Fig. 6. 
BiUot, Fl. Gall, ef Germ. Exacc. No. 255, 
