_SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. 165, 
A genus principally indigenous to Europe and the Cape 
of Good Hope, there are also 2 species in South America, 
| 2 in Japan, Lin Arabia Felix, anda shrubby species, or 
\ something else, in New Zealand. 
564, SENECIO. £. (Ragwort.) 
Calix cylindric, subcaliculate: scales sphace- 
late at the points. Receptacle naked. Pappus 
simple, capillary, and copious. 
Suffruticose or more commonly herbaceous; leaves en- 
tire or pinnatifid; flowers mostly corymbose or terminal; 
yellow or rarely purple. A few species are destitute of 
bs: rays. 
4 Sprctes. 1.8. vulgaris. Introduced. 2. hieracifolius. 
+ Seeds pubescent. 5. elongatus. Pu. 4. pauciflorus. Pu. 
& 5. pauperculus. 6. gracilis. Pu. 7. edovatus. 8, Balsa- 
mite, 9. aureus. 10, Cymbalaria. Pa. A starved vari- 
ety of the preceding? 11. canadensis. 12. lobatus, Persoon. 
Common around New Orleans. 13. Kalnii. Cineraria 
canadensis. Oss. Nearly all the North American species 
of this genus are imperfectly or minutely caliculate, and 
to separate them on this ground appears arbitrary and 
unnatural, as they are perfectly homogenous. 
14. integrifolius. Cineraria integrifolia. Common also 
to Europe. B. heterophylla, A variety of the 
C. heterophylla. Pa: 2. p. 528. ‘The Tie leaves of the 
American S. integrifolive are always more or fess toothed 
at the base. ; 
- 15. *integerrimis. Smooth; stem simple and attenuated; 
leaves perfectly entire; radical ones long petiolate, lanceo- 
late, acute, cauline sessile, acuminate, uppermost minute; 
corymb simple, 8 to 12-flowered? peduncles 1-fowered, 
rays shorter than the hemispherical caliculate calix. Haz. — 
In depressed and moist situations on the plains of the e 
_ Missouri, near the Great Bend. Flowering inJune. Flow- __ 
- er large and yellow. Stem 12 to See antag - 
' leaves eee ently, ton carnose, 
Seeds smooth. se Nay a 
A genus of more than 140 species peocpally indigenous 
to Europe and the vege of Good Hope. 
o6%e TUSSILAGO. L. (Colt’s-foot, Butter-bur.) 
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