Tas. 6101. 
SENECIO Doronicum, VAR. HOSMARIENSTS. 
Native of Northern Maroceo. 
Nat. Ord. Comrostrm.—Tribe SENECIONIDE®. 
Genus Senrcro, Z. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 446). 
SENEcto (Crociserides) Doronicum » herbaceus perennis polymorphus, floccoso- 
tomentosus v. glabratus, 1-pauci-cephalus, foliis. crassiusculis dentatis, 
radicalibus lanceolatis ellipticis v. ovato-cordatis dentatis sinuato-den- 
tatisve breviter v. longius petiolatis subacutis v. obtusis, involucri 
bracteati campanulati squamis lanceolatis acuminatis, ligulis 12-25 planis, 
acheniis glabris striatis, 
8S. Doronicum, Linn. Sp. Pl., p. 1222; DC. Prodr., vol. vi. p. 357. 
Var. hosmariensis ; caule breviori, foliis caulinis paucis angustis, inferioribus 
2-3 limbo lato in petiolum attenuatis, radicalibus late ovatis basi trun- 
cata v. subcordata in petiolum non deccurrentibus. Ball in Journ. 
Bot. n.s., vol. ii. p. 867 (1873). 
Senecio Doronicum is a very. handsome and not uncommon 
South European plant, extending from the Pyrenees to 
Transylvania, inhabiting considerable elevations in those 
countries, attaining a foot or two in height, with heads two 
inches in diameter. On the southern shores of the Mediter- 
ranean it has hitherto been found only in the northern moun- 
tains of Marocco, where it was discovered on Beni-Hosmar, 
a rugged limestone mass close to Tetuan, by Messrs. Ball, 
Maw, and myself, in April, 1871, at an elevation of about 
3000 feet, growing in dry rocky places. 
_ In this state it forms a very pretty rockwork plant, flower- 
ing in May in England. The specimen here figured is from 
Mr. Maw’s rich garden of herbaceous plants at Benthall Hall, 
near Broseley, in Shropshire. 
Desor. A perennial scapigerous herb, leaves below, scape, 
bracts, and involucre more or less clothed with floccose 
tomentum. Root of thick fibres. Radical-leaves one to one 
and a half inches long, ovate, elliptic-ovate, or ovate-cordate, 
acute or obtuse irregularly teothed, more or less contracted 
MAY Ist, 1874, 
