944 
SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Inula. 
(Hook. FI Lond. 75. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 180 —FI. Ban. 1177 —Allion. 38. 2 
— F. Bot. 152— Relh. at p. 220— Jacq. Misc. i. 17. 4— Pet. 17. 4. 
Root fibrous. Root-leaves on leaf-stalks, spatula-shaped, obscurely toothed, 
cottony underneath; stem-leaves sessile, spear-shaped, cottony. Stem 
three to six inches high, simple, cottony, angular. Flowers one to four, 
yellow. Florets of the circumference ten to fifteen ; of the centre nume¬ 
rous, prominent. Calyx furrowed, the edges membranous. Seeds hairy. 
Down simple. Relh. The size of this plant varies much, as also the 
number of its flowers. I have before me a specimen two inches and a 
half high, with only two flowers, and another sent by Mr. Relhan, nine 
inches high, with an umbel of eight flowers. The fruit-stalk of the cen¬ 
tral flower but half the length of the others. (Remarkable for the white 
downy substance with which the leaves and stems , and in some measure 
the calyx , is covered. Hook. E.) 
Mountain Flea-wort. C. campestris. Retz. (Willd. De Cand. Pers. 
Hoffrn. Ait. Hook. C. integrifolia. With. Sibth. Relh. Sm. C. integri - 
folia /3, palustris. Jacq. C. alpina. Huds. Relh. C. alpina y, integrifolia. 
Linn. E.) Hilly pastures. Gogmagog Hills, Newmarket Heath, and 
the Devil’s Ditch. (Downs of Sussex. Mungewell, on Grimes Dike; 
and Burford Downs, Oxfordshire. Sibthorp. Near Basingstoke, and 
Andover. Hudson. Belhan, Isle of Wight; and Flower Down, near 
Winton. Pulteney. E.) P. May—June. 
(Var. 2. Maritima. From one to two feet high, or more: all the leaves, 
especially those of the stem, larger and smoother than those of the above, 
radical leaves sometimes widely toothed. 
Marine Flea-ivort. Welsh: Chweinllys arfor. On declivities above the 
sea, at Porth y pistill, and Porth y felin, near Holyhead. Rev. Hugh Da¬ 
vies. E.) 
I'NULA.* Receptacle naked: Down hair-like: Anthers with 
two bristles at the base of each. 
I. Hele'nium. Leaves embracing the stem, egg-shaped, wrinkled, 
cottony beneath : scales of the calyx egg-shaped, (leafy. E.) 
Woodv. 108— Kniph. 7—Blackw. 473— (E. Bot. 1546. E.)— Ludw. 59 — 
Bod. 344 —Lob. Obs. 309. 1, Ic. i. 574. 2 —Ger. Em. 793— H. Ox. vii. 24, 
row 3, fig. the last — Pet. 16. 1— Park. 654— Gars. — Ger. 649— FI. Dan. 
728— Matth. 71— Fuchs. 242— J. B. ii. a. 108— Trag. 170. 
Stem five or six feet high, branched towards the top, scored, cottony. 
Leaves , the lower on leaf-stalks, spear-shaped; the upper egg-spear¬ 
shaped, serrated or toothed, deep green, slightly hairy above, whitish 
green and thickly cottony underneath. Flowers very large, solitary, ter¬ 
minating the stem and branches. Calyx , the outer egg-spear-shaped, 
like the leaves; the inner bluntly egg-shaped, cottony. Blossom yellow. 
Florets of the circumference one to one inch and a half long, with three 
pointed teeth at the end. Down shorter than the florets. Woodw. 
Elecampane. (Irish: Meacan Eclin. Welsh: Marchalan; Llwyglys. 
E.) Moist meadows and pastures. In Essex, frequent; about St. Ive’s, 
Cornwall; Bugden, Huntingdonshire; between Denbigh and St. Asaph. 
Hudson: (and near the ruin and well at Wigfair, the seat of John Lloyd, 
* (For want of a more rational interpretation, supposed to be a corruption of eteviov , as 
fabled to hare sprung from the tears of Helen. E.) 
