SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Inula. 
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Esq., Denbighshire ; also at the bottom of the wall of a field bordering 
Garn dingle, in the same county. E.) Side of Bredon Hill, ascending 
from Great Comberton, Worcestershire. Nash. Ripton and Warboys, 
Huntingdonshire, the latter far removed from any house ; Mettingham, 
Suffolk; not uncommon in Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. In a pasture 
ground near Wick Cliffs, Gloucestershire. Rev. G. Swayne. Several 
places near Dalton, clearly in a wild state. Mr. Atkinson. (Very plen¬ 
tiful in the fields and lanes about Aber, Carnarvonshire. Waring. Byland 
Wood near Coxwould, Yorkshire. Rev. Archdeacon Pierson; and pas¬ 
tures about Fountains Abbey. Mr. Brunton. Castle Eden Dean, Durham. 
Mr. Winch. In Studley Castle field, and Grafton, Warwickshire; Him- 
ley wood, Staffordshire. Bree; Purton. Between King’s Bridge and 
Llangoed Mill, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Ruins of Mugdoch Castle, near 
Glasgow. Hopkirk. E.) P. July—Aug.* * 
I. dysenter'ica. Leaves embracing the stem, heart-oblong, downy: 
stem woolly, forming a kind of panicle: scales of the calyx 
bristle-shaped. 
Curt. 164— (E. Bot. 1115. E.)— Kniph. 12— FI Dan. 410 —Walc.—Matth. 
872 —Clus. ii. 21. 1 —Dod. 52. 1— Lob. Obs. 187. 1, and Ic. i. 345. 2— 
Ger. Em. 482. 3—Pet. 16. 2 —H. Ox. vii. 19. 7—Fuchs. 436— J. B. ii. 
1050. 1. 
Stem upright, twelve to eighteen inches high, E.) cylindrical, scored, cot¬ 
tony, branched towards the top. Leaves spear-shaped, obscurely toothed, 
arrow-shaped at the base, cottony on both sides. Flowers terminating 
the stem and branches, solitary. Calyx scales numerous, cottony. Blos¬ 
som yellow. Florets of the circumference with three teeth at the end. 
Down as long as the tube of the blossom. Woodw. 
(A variety with very short rays has been described by Relhan, in FI. Can- 
tab. E.) 
Common Elecampane. (Welsh: Cedowys cyjfredin. E.) Moist mea¬ 
dows and pastures, watery places, sides of brooks and rivulets. 
A. Aug.—Oct.f 
(I. pulica'ria. E.) Upper-leaves embracing the stem, wavy, strap- 
spear-shaped, blunt: stem (very much branched, hairy: flowers 
hemispherical, those of the circumference very short. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — Curt. 156—( E. Bot. 1196. E.)— Sheldr. — FI. Dan. 613— 
Blackw. 103— Ger. 390. 2— Trag. 166— Lonic. i. 131. 3— Dod. 52. 3— 
Lob. Obs. 187. 2, and Ic. i. 345. 1— Ger. Em. 482. 4— H. Ox. vii. 20. 30 
— Pei. 16. 3. 
* The root is esteemed a good pectoral. Dr. Hill affirms, from his own expe¬ 
rience, that an infusion of the fresh root, sweetened with honey, is an excellent me¬ 
dicine in the hooping cough. A decoction of the root cures sheep affected with the scab. 
Horses and goats eat it; cows, sheep and swine refuse it. (Mr. Rose has obtained a white 
substance from the concentrated juice of this plant much resembling starch, though neither 
exactly that nor gum, but a farinaceous powder holding a middle rank between the two.—It 
is cultivated for the sake of the root, which in Germany is used candied as a stomachic, and 
is gently stimulating, as Angelica; a decoction outwardly applied is said to cure Psora. E.) 
*f* It has a peculiar scent, compared by some to that of soap. The Russian soldiers, in 
the Persian expedition under General Keit, were much relieved from dysentery, by the 
use of this plant. Cows are not fond of it $ goats and sheep refuse it. Linn. A horse 
eat it, but it is generally left untouched. St. (Cassidn maculata is found on its leaves. E.) 
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