430SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-SUPERF. Senecio. 



ish ; the lower ones mostly obovate, jagged, tapering into foot- 

 stalks ; upper sessile, clasping the stem, pinnatifid and toothed. 

 Fl. on corymbose, terminal and axillary, leafy branches, consist- 

 ing of a yellow disk only, without rays, of no attractive aspect or 

 scent, Cal. smooth, striated. The seed-down forms small white 

 balls, soon blown away. 

 Birds kept in cages are fed with the young buds and leaves, which 

 have a saltish herbaceous flavour. Haller suggests a degree of 

 affinity between this genus and the Succory tribe ; but I do not 

 perceive it either in their structure or qualities. 



** JFl. "iSoith speedily revolute rays. 



2. S. viscosus. Stinking Groundsel. 



Rays revolute. Leaves pinnatifid, viscid. Outer calyx lax, 

 almost as long as the inner. Stem with many spreading 

 branches. 



S. viscosus. Linn. Sp. PL 1217. WiUd. v. 3. \ 984. Fl. Br. S82. 



Engl. Bot.v. \.t.32. Hook. Scot. 243. Ehrh. Herb. 70. 

 S. n. 60. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 26. 

 S. hirsutus viscidus major odoratus. Rail Sy7i. 178. Bauh. Hist. 



V. 2. 1042./. 

 S. hirsutus viscidus graveolens. Dill. Elth. 347. t. 258. f. 336. 

 Erigerum tomentosum. Ger. Gm. 278. f. not descr. 

 E. tomentosum alterum. l^ob. Ic. 226./. 

 E, majus, Dod. Pempt. 641./. 

 Cotton Groundsel. Petiv. H. Brit. t. \7.f. 6. 



In waste ground, on a chalky or sandy soil. 



On the fen banks in the Isle of Ely. Ray. At Gamlingay, Me- 

 pole, and Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. Near Baldon, 

 Oxfordshire. Sibthorp. By the sea side at New Haven, and in 

 the King's park, Edinburgh j also about the chalk-pits at Dart- 

 ford, Kent. 



Annual. July — October. 



Whole herb larger in all its parts than the preceding, downy, soft 

 and glutinous to the touch, with a strong disagreeable smell. 

 Stem generally more spreading. Leaves deeply, and in some 

 measure doubly, pinnatifid, with bluntish irregular notches, or 

 teeth. Fl. on terminal, solitary or aggregate, stalks. Cal. 

 hairy, and very glutinous 5 the outer scales few, lax, long and 

 narrow. Cor. bright yellow ; disk convex ; radius of several li- 

 gulate, linear, 5 -toothed ^ore/5, soon revolute after their expan- 

 sion. All the Jlorets are fertile. Seed-down rough. 



3. S. lividus. Green-scaled Groundsel. 



Rays revolute. Leaves clasping the stem, lanceolate, pin- 



