SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Doronicum. 447 



scales, in a double row, generally nearly as long as the 

 radiant florets. Cor. compound, radiant ; jimets of the 

 disk numerous, perfect, tubular, with 5 equal, rather 

 spreading segments ; those of the radius as many as the 

 scales of the calyx, or more, ligulate, linear, spreading, 

 with 3 — 5 terminal, equal teeth. Filam. in the tubular 

 florets only, capillary, very short. Anth. in a cylindrical 

 tube, with 5 notches. Germ, in all the florets fertile, 

 obovate. Stijle thread-shaped, rather prominent. Stig- 

 mas small, spreading. Seed-vessel none, except the slightly 

 converging, withering calyx. Seed obovate, a little com- 

 pressed, furrowed. Do-don sessile, capillary, rough, on 

 the seeds of the disk only, which are hairy ; wanting on 

 those of the radius, which are smooth. Recept. naked, 

 pitted, somewhat convex. 

 Large, perennial, tuberous-rooted herhs^ rather downy, with 

 upright corymbose stemsy broad, heart-shaped or oblong, 

 mostly toothed leaves ^ and a few solitary, great, yellow 

 JlowerSi earlier than most of this tribe. 



1. D. Pm^dalianches. Great Leopard's-bane. 



Leaves heart-shaped, toothed ; radical ones stalked ; the 

 rest clasping the stem. 



D. Pardalianches. Unn. Sp. PL 1 247. Willd. u. 3. 211 3. Lightf. 

 485. FZ.fir.896. Etigl. Bot.v. 9. f. 630. Hook. Scot.245. Hopk. 

 Glutt. 104. Mill. Ic. 85. t. 128. Jacq. Austr. t. 350. 



D. n. 88. Hall. Hist V. 1.36. 



D. majus officinarum. Ger. Em. 759./. 



D. latifolium. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 1 6./. 



D. tertii varietas. Lob. Ic. 649. f. 



Aconitum Pardalianches minus. Matth.Valgr. v. 2. 429./. Camer. 

 Epit. 824./. 



In mountainous pastures or meadows. 



Gathered in the cold mountains of Northumberland, by Dr. Penny. 

 Gerarde. In several places in the Lowlands of Scotland, as 

 about Hoddam castle, in Annandale, &c., but always near 

 houses. Lightfoot. In fields and hedges about Hamilton, 

 scarcely indigenous. Hopkirk. In several other parts of the 

 Lowlands. Hooker. On the banks of the Severn, below Bridg- 

 north. With. In a hedge by the road from Much-Wenlock, 

 Shropshire, to the iron bridge. Rev. S. Dickenson. Near Saling 

 hall, Essex. Mr. Walford. [Upon bogs at Newbury, Berks. 

 Mr. G. E. Smith.'] 



Perennial. May. 



Root of several knobs, connected bv long fibres, creeping ; woolly 

 at the crown. Stem 2 or 3 feet'high, hollow, round, obscurely 



