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358 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Senecio. 
inv. of 12-13 acute, scabro-pubescent scales, nude or scarcely calycled ; 
fl. 40-50; rays several, purple / (or “pale” DC. ;) achenes striate, downy. 
Has. Districts of Caledon and Swellendam, Ecklon! (Herb. Sd., Cap.) ; 
. 6-12 inches high, much branched. Leaves 14-2 inches long, the lowermost bi- 
pinnate, the upper varying to pinnate ; lobes 4 line wide, tipped with a remarkable 
callus. Rays in an original specimen, in Hb. Sd., marked by De Candolle, distinctly 
purple; in another in Hb. Cap., as clearly pale, and probably faded ; or does it vary 
with purple and yellow rays? In other respects the specimens are identical. 
14, §. tenellus (DC. 1. c. 379); ‘annual, erect, branched, glabrescent, 
slender; leaves linear, acute, quite entire, subscabrid ; fl, branches long, 
nude, one-headed ; inv. uniseriate, of 12-13, linear, acute, membrane- 
edged scales.” DC. . ¢. 
Has. Cape, Boissier. (Unknown to me.) 
“ A minute annual (3-6 inches high’). Leaves 4-6 lines long, 3 line wide. Heads 
scarcely 3 lines diam., pale-yellow.” Is not this a dwarf state of S. levigatus? 
15, S. levigatus (Thunb.! Cap. 686); annual, nearly glabrous; stem 
erect, rigid, angle-striate, paniculately branched ; leaves clasping at base, 
narrow-linear, with more or less revolute margins, the upper ones often 
entire, the medial and lower pinnati-partite, with few linear lobes, or 
inciso-lobulate ; lobes quite entire ; branches elongate, nearly nude, 
one-headed ; inv. calyculate, the scales linear, acuminate, glabrous; rays 
several ; achenes pubescent. DC. 1. c. 382. Also S. plebeius, DC.! 1. ¢. 
379 (fide Sp. Eckl.!) 
Var. 8, integrifolius; leaves undivided, linear, with revolute margins, glabrous. 
(Herb. D.) 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Langekloof, Burchell, Krebs, E. § Z.! Simonsbay, C. 
Wright! 299. Var. B. Albany, T. Cooper, 9, 12. (Herb. Th., Sd., D.) 
About a foot high, rigid, and almost ligneous at base, paniculately much branched, 
slender. Leaves 1-13 inch long, the lobes not a line diameter, rigid, glabrous or 
scaberulous. Fl. branches 24-4 inches long, filiform. Heads 3 lines diam. I have 
not seen Burchell’s plant, but Lcklon’s is the same as Thunberg’s. 
16. S. matricariefolius (DC. ? 1. c. 383); annual, diffuse, glabrous 
or nearly so; branches angle-furrowed ; leaves bipinnatisect, the lower 
petioled, the rest ear-clasping at base, lobes narrow, sharply pinnatisect 
or inciso-dentate, spreading (sparsely pilose beneath) ; pedicels few, 
long, slender, scaly ; inv. glabrous, calycled with brown-tipped, ciliolate 
bracteoles, 10-12-scaled ; rays several, spreading, longer than the invol., 
4-nerved ; achenes striate, cano-puberulous. 8. jilipes, Turez. Bull. 
Mose. XXIV. II. p. 87. Walp. Ann. V. p. 336. 
Has. Zwarteberg, near Klaarstroom, Drege. Hassaquaskloof, Zeyher! (Hb Sd.) 
I have not seen Drege’s plant, described by DC. ; but that of Zeyher (S. filipes, 
Tez.!) so nearly agrees with De Candolle’s description, differing seemingly in not 
a eg glabrous, that I venture to consider it the same. Stems many from the 
inches long, widely spreading. Leaves 1-1} inches long, their lobes not 
a line in breadth, sharply multifid. Pedicels 3 inches long. 
17. S. trachylenus (Harv.); annual, nearly glabrous except on the 
inflorescence ; stem erect, leafy ; leaves sessile, half-clasping at base, 
glabrous, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes in 3-5 pair, broadly linear or 
oblong, subacute, entire or toothed with revolute margins ; apew of the 
