Senecio. | COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 361 
flat, glabrous, or pilose, black-tipped scales ; achenes striate, puberulous. 
Willd. Sp. 3.1990. Bot. Mag.t.238. S.pseudo-elegans, Less.! DC. luc. 407. 
VaR. a, erectus ; stem erect, slender, leaves more frequently pinnate or bipinnati- 
partite; inv. scales glabrous! S. carnosus, ex pte., Th.! Herb. 8. pseudo-elegans, Less. ! 
Syn. 391. DC./ 1. ¢. 407. S. elegans, Willd, Bot. Mag. t. 238. Seba, Thes. 1. t. 22. 
f. 1. 8S. elegans B. Linn. 
Var. 8, diffusus; stem diffuse, thick and rigid, roughly pubescent ; leaves more yp 
frequently lyrate, with a large terminal lobe ; iny. scales piloso-scabrous! S. carnosus, — 
ex pte. Th.! Herb. DC. 1. ¢. p. 409. 
Has. Sandy ground round Capetown and in the Western Districts, Drege! Eckl./ 
Zey.! W. H. H., C. Wright 312, 317. Cultivated in Europe. Var. 8. near the sea 
shore, Thunb.! Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 1-2 ft. high, the larger specimens much branched. Leaves 14-3 inches 
long, extremely varied in shape and degree of incision. Inv. truncate at base; the 
numerous bracteoles of the calycle 1-2 lines long; the scales 56 lines long. Rays 
showy. A var. with double flowers is the well-known ‘‘ American Grounsel,” of 
Engl. gardens; why called ‘‘ American” I know not. The wild plant seems con- 
stantly annual; the cultivated variety may be kept for 2 or more years. 
Mr. Kippist has kindly furnished me with the following note, as the result of his 
examination of the Linnzan specimens of ‘ Senecio elegans :” it seems to establish the 
incorrectness of Lessing’s change of name to “ pseudo-elegans.” ‘I find [in the 
Linnzan Cabinets] two plants pmned together, both marked S, elegans in Linnzus’s 
own hand. There is no habitat to either, nor any information as to the history of 
the specimens. ‘The first sheet, however, having the No. ‘ 13’ (corresponding with 
the 1st Ed. of the Sp. Pl.) prefixed to the name elegans must be taken as the type 
specimen, and this is assuredly the pseudo-elegans of Less., the calyx being most dis- 
tinctly bicalyculate, glabrous, with the outer scales serrulato-ciliate, and each of the 
pedicels bearing 4-5 squame. Why Lessing should have changed the name, I 
know not, especially as, in all three of the figures quoted by Linnzeus, and even in 
Commelin’s wretched plate, the invol. is clearly bicalyculate. * * * Linnzus sub- 
sequently introduced into his herbarium, with the name ‘8. elegans,’ a totally different 
plant, with the aphyllous pedicels and a uniseriate, hairy involucre; apparently 
agreeing with S. elegans, . viscosissimus, DC.”—The error perhaps originated with 
Thunberg who gave the name carnosus to the plant with bicalyculate involucres ; and 
the names S. elegans, S. arenariusand S,myrrhifolius to that with uniseriate involucres. 
25. S. multibracteatus (Harv.); annual, sparsely pubescent, viscidu- 
lous above, erect; stem terete; cauline leaves sessile, not auricled, 
lanceolate, coarsely few-toothed, tapering at base, glabrous or nearly 
so, with scarcely reflexed margins ; rameal leaves stem-clasping, coarsely 
toothed at base, acuminate, more or less scabrid ; heads subcorymbose, 
on very long, copiously scaly pedicels ; inv. of many dark-tipped, gla- 
brous scales, amply calycled with many imbricating, lanceolate bracte- 
oles nearly equalling the inv. scales; disc yellow, rays purple. 
Has. Bethelsdorp, Zeyher! 2962. (Herb. Sond.) 
Marked perennial by Zeyher; but the root looks like that of an annual. Stem 
1-1} f. high, branched above. Leaves 2-24 inches long, 4-5 lines wide, the teeth 
deltoid, distant. The pedicels toward the fi. head are very scaly and the calycle 
nearly as long as the involucre, by which characters and the form of leaves this is 
known from 8. elegans. 
26. S. arenarius (Th! Cap. 680, ex pte ) ; annual, viscoso-pubescent, 
erect, paniculately branched ; leaves petioled, more or less clasping at 
base, polymorphous (either oblong or obovate, subentire or toothed, 
lyrate, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, with cuneate, toothed or incised lobes :) 
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