946 SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Boron icum. 
Stem (about a span high, E.) cylindrical, scored, smooth, crooked, often 
tinged with purple, much branched. Leaves , the lower sessile; upper 
embracing the stem, spear-shaped, waved at the edge, slightly hairy and 
cottony. Flowers numerous, solitary. Calyx scales numerous, awl- 
shaped, woolly, the lower spreading. Blossom yellow. Florets of the 
circumference with three teeth at the end; often wanting. Down shorter 
than the florets ; rays few. Woodw. (The general appearance and form 
. of the flowers is the same in each species, and the stems , though frequent¬ 
ly upright, are sometimes found trailing. FI. Brit. E.) 
Small Elecampane. I. pulicaria. Linn. I. uliginosa. Sibth. I. cylin- 
drica. With. Hull. Sym. Road-sides, and where water has stagnated 
during the winter. A. Aug.—Oct. 
I. crithmoi'des. Leaves strap-shaped, fleshy, generally three-pointed: 
(calyx smooth. E.) 
E. Bot. 68— J. B. ii. a. 106. 3 —Dod. 706. I—Lob. Obs. 215. 1, and Ic. i. 
395. 2 —Ger.Em. 533. 3— Park. 1287— H. Ox. vii. 21. 16— Pet. 17. 9— 
Matth. 491— Ger. 427. 3. 
Stem (one foot high, upright, sometimes decumbent. E.) firm, smooth, 
scored, branched. leaves at the ends of the branches crowded. Flowers 
solitary, (yellow, large and showy, E.) terminating the upper branches. 
Fruit-stalks thick. Calyx , scales numerous, awl-shaped, fleshy, yellow¬ 
ish green. Seeds woolly. Down (reddish, E.) shorter than the florets ; 
rays few, when viewed with a glass finely toothed on one side. Woodw. 
Lower-leaves with teeth at the end, and sometimes a little toothed at the 
sides; upper ones entire. 
(Samphire-leaved Elecampane. Golden Sampire. Welsh: Cedowys 
sugawl; Sampler y geiflr. E.) Salt-marshes on the sea-coast, in muddy 
soil. P. Aug.* * 
DORO'NICUM.f Receptacle naked : Down hair-like : Calyx 
scales in two rows, equal, longer than the blossoms : 
Seeds of the circumference without down. 
D. pariIalian'ches.J Leaves heart-shaped, blunt, finely toothed: 
root-leaves stalked; others embracing the stem; (both strongly 
veined beneath. E.) 
( Hook. FI. Lond. 88. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 350—(E. Bot. 630. E.)— Ludw., 
57— Kniph. 2,—Blackw. 239— Clus. ii. 19— Ger. Em. 762— Park. 321. 7— 
H. Ox. vii. 24. 4— Mill. 128— Gars. 15. 
( Stem erect, two or three feet high, rough with hairs, slightly viscid towards 
the top. Flowers terminal, solitary, large, yellow. Scales of the calyx 
* (The young branches of this plant are frequently sold in the London market for 
samphire, but they have none of the warm aromatic taste of the true samphire, (Crithmum 
maritimum. E.) 
*f* (So called from Doronigi , the Arabian name of the plant: and hence, as Mr. Phillips 
observes, its celebrity among those Nomadian tribes, (from whom the medical virtues of 
numerous plants have been made known in Europe,) may be inferred ; or, as some imagine, 
from Sopov, a gift; and wjoj, victory; from its power of destroying. E.) 
X (From 7 rapdoff, a leopard, and ce/xetv, to strangle, or destroy : having been formerly 
used, mixed with flesh, to poison wild beasts : and expressive of the same practice, is the 
terminal to the English name of this and some other species, (as Wolf’s-^oM* 0 , Cow -bane^ 
Ften-hune, &c.) derived from the Saxon. E.) 
