446 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Doronicum. 



Raij. Near Basingstoke and Andover. Huds. Neav Tving, 

 Herts. Dickson. On the downs of Dorsetshire and Oxford- 

 shire. Hooker. 



j3. On cliffs near Holyhead^ Anglesea. Rev. H. Davies. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root of several long simple fibres. Herh clothed, more or less, 

 with a shaggy, deciduous, cottony web, most dense and perma- 

 nent on the backs of the leaves. Stem simple, erect, G or 8 

 inches high, leafy, terminating in an imperfect umbel, of 3 or 4, 

 rarely only 1 or 2, bright yellow powers, with several linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, woolly bracteas at the base of their partial 

 stalks. Radical leaves several, close to the ground, elliptic-ob- 

 long, tapering at the base, sometimes stalked, somewhat revo- 

 lute, variously toothed, often entire 5 loosely cottony above; 

 more copiously beneath ; stem-leaves scattered, erect, lanceo- 

 late, revolute, entire, most cottony. Cal. somewhat woolly j 

 the upper half of its scales pale and rather membranous. Florets 

 of the radius nearly oval, obtuse, with 3 teeth. Seeds silky. 

 Down rough. 



Such is the common appearance of our chalk-country Cineraria, a 

 slight variety of which, with longer-stalked leaves, is figured in 

 Ge'r. Em. 304./. 2, and Lob. /c. 587/. 1, copied in Petiver, 

 t. 13./ 5, as a sort of Hawkweed. As one of that genus, no 

 wonder it could never be determined. Dr. Lamb of Newbury, 

 directed by Gerarde, sought out the plant, in its original place 

 of growth, near the Roman camp at Sidmonton, 10 yards south 

 of the Decuman Port, and a specimen sent by him, drawn up a 

 little perhaps amongst grass, is so like the wooden cut above 

 indicated, that it leaves no doubt on the subject. See the syno- 

 nyms of Hieraciu7n maculatum, p. 360 of the present volume. 



/3 is a still more remarkable plant, thrice the size of the above, 

 with numerous broad teeth to some of its radical leaves, from 4 

 to djlowers in the umbel, nearly twice the size of those on the 

 Newmarket heath specimens, and it is altogether so different in 

 aspect, that were not the variableness of the present Cineraria, 

 and some of its allies, so well known to alpine botanists, any 

 body might think this a species. I cannot however detect a 

 specific character. Mr. Davies points out its particular attach- 

 ment to a maritime situation. Yet some Swiss specimens of 

 Haller's n. 68, from Mr. Schleicher, connect it with Engl. Bof. 

 t. 152, and identify Haller's description with our English plant. 



403. DORONICUM. Leopard's-bane. 



Linn. Gen. 427. Juss. 182. Fl. Br.S96. Tourn.t.277. Lam. 

 t. 679. Gcertn. t. 173. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 396. 



Common Cal. of about 20 linear-awl-shaped, equal, upright 



