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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of composite plants, type of Schultz's division Iphioneæ of the Euconyzeæ, now referred to the tribe Inuloideæ, subtribe Euinuleæ, and by some regarded as a section of the genus Inula, to which the elecampane belongs, but from which it differs by its somewhat double pappus, the outer consisting of short bristles.

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