SMALL FlEABANE. 
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Inula Pulicaria. 
INULA Lin. Gen. Plant-. Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua, Recepi, nudum. Pappus fimples. 
Jnthera bafi in fetas duas definentes. 
Rail. Syn. Gen. 7. HerbA flore composito, semine papposo non lactescentes, 
FLORE DISCOIDE. 
' INULA Ptdlcaria follis amplexlcaulibus undulatis, caule proftrato, floribus fubglobofis. Lw, Sp. PI. 
p. 123S. 
ASTER follis amplexlcaulibus, undulatis, 'hlrriitls, radiis breviflimls. Haller. Hi/l. v. 80. 
' ASTER Pulicarius. ScopoH FI. Cam. n. 1080. 
' CONYZA minor flore globofo. Bauhin pin. 266. 
CONYZA minima. Gerard emac, 482. Ran. Syn. p. 174. ‘fmall Fleabane. 
Hudfon. FI. j^ngl. p. 369. 
Oeikr. FI. Dan. icon. 613. 
RADIX annua, fibrofa, albida, articulata, plerumque 
curvata. 
CAULIS fpithamajus, raro ultra pedalem, nobifcum 
plerumque eredtus, ramoliffimus, teres, pur- 
puralcens, pubefcens, fubflexuofus ; Rami al- 
terni, cauli fimiles. 
FOLIA alterna, oblongo-lanceolata-, amplexicaulla, 
hirfutula, undulata, tortuofa. 
FLORES parvi, numerofi, baemlfphaerici, lutei, fum- 
mitatibus ramulorum infldentcs, peduncu- 
lari ; pofl: nati fupra primos eminentes. 
CALYX communis imbricatus, fquamae numerofae, 
inaequales, fublineares, ere£i;a, tomentofae. 
COROLLA compofita : Corollul-ee Hermaphrodita 
aequales, numeroCflimaj in dico, limbo quin- 
quefido, eredlo, extus minutifllme glaudulofo, 
jig. 5, Feminea ligulatae, numerofe, confertae 
in radio ; carina ad lentem fcabriufcula, lindjo 
brevjjfimo., plerumque trideiitato. jig. i. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, capillaria; An- 
thera: flav$, longitudine coroii», lingulis 
letis duabus tenumlmis ad bafm inftrudfls. 
ROOT annual, fibrous, whitifh, jointed, generally 
crooked. 
STALK from feven inches to a foot in height, feldom 
more, with us generally upright, very much 
branched, round, purpllfh, downy, fome- 
what crooked ; Branches alternate, and like 
the ftalk. 
LEAVES alternate, oblong, and lanceolate, embra- 
cing the lialk, flightly hairy, waved at the 
edges and twilled, 
FLOWERS fmall, numerous, hemifpherical and yel- 
low, fitting on the tops of the branches and 
having foot flalks, the laft blown ftanding 
confiderably above the others. 
CALYX common to many florets, fcales lying one 
over another, numerous, almofl linear, up- 
right, equal and woolly. 
COROLLA compound. Hermaphrodite Florets equal, 
'exceedingly numerous in the center, the limb 
divided into five upright fegments, and ex- 
ternally very minutely glandular, fig. 5. Fe- 
male Florets in the circumference flat at the 
extremity, numerous, clofe together, the 
keel or midrib underneath a little rough, the 
limb veryfitort, ufually terminating in three 
teeth. I, 
STAMINA: five Filaments, very fine ; Anther.®: 
yellow, the length of the corolla, each fur- 
nilhed at bottom with two {lender feta: or 
briftles. 7^. 9, 10. ii. 
PISTILLUM: Germen Hermaphroditis et Femln:eis | PISTILLUM: Germen both in the Hermaphrodite 
oblongum, teres, album, pilis rigidulis fub- | and Female Florets oblong, roundf white 
apprellis hirfutum. fig. 2,4 Stylus co- | hirfute with ftiffifli hairs which are fomewhat 
voila longior; Stigma bilidum, hcinis re- t prefs’d to it ; 2, 4, Style longer than 
fiexis. fig. 3, 6. ^ the corolla ; Stigma bifid, the {egments 
^ turning back. 3 . 6. 
SEMEN oblongum, nigricans, hifpidulum^ teres, | SEED oblong, blackifh, round and a little hifpid 
pappo fimplici, rigidulo, fragili, longitudine | crown’d with a fimple, fliffifh, brittle down’ 
femmis coronatum. 8. | the length of the feed. ;fo- 8 ’ 
RECEPTACULUM nudum, puuais prominulis fca- | RECEPTACLE naked, roughiih from little promi- 
brum. fig. 7. j nent points, fig. 7. 
^ LINNjEUS in his Genera Plantarum Informs us that the laula is principally charaaerized by having two fmall 
Seta or Brlfiles proceeding from the bafe of each Jnthera, and that it is by this circumfiance* in an efpecial mar.^ 
iier difiinguilhed from the Genus JJer, yet notwithftanding this, both Haller and Scopoli have thought proper to 
join It With that genus; although a peculiar charaaer, it might perhaps be confidered by them as too niinute 
to found a Genus on, in this Ipecies it requires a good eye and fome fmall dexterity to difcover them yet they 
are^ fufficiently vifible ; independent of them however, there is on the face of the two genera fuch evident 
difiimilariry that a ftudent would never exped to find then arranged together 
This fpecles is not fo common as the dyjenterica. nor is it like that a perennial.— It generally grows in places 
overflowed in the winter, on the borders of Ponds particularly in a fliffifh foil and flowers in September. 
