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Conyza aquatica maxima serratifolia. Thai. Harcyn. 21.^3, 

 C. palustris serratifolia. Ger. Em. 483./. 

 Marsh Golden Rod. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 1 6./. 8. 



In the ditches and fens of the east part of England, very rare. 



Near Streatham ferry in the isle of Ely. Ray. In Lakenheath 

 fen, near Wangford, Suffolk. Mr. Francis Eagle. On the banks 

 of ditches, near Braford water, half a mile from Lincoln. Rev. 

 Mr. WooUaston. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root somewhat creeping, with many long, simple, stout fibres. 

 Stems erect, straight, roundish, furrowed, hollow, leafy, simple 

 except at the summit, from 3 to G feet, or more, in height, 

 loosely clothed with deciduous cottony down. Leaves nume- 

 rous, sessile, scattered, lanceolate, taper-pointed, sharply ser- 

 rated j smooth above j paler^ as well as downy or cottony, be- 

 neath ; the upper ones contracted and entire at the base 3 lower 

 dilated, clasping, and equally serrated in that part. Ft. corym- 

 bose, not very numerous, but large and conspicuous, bright yel- 

 low, with many oblong, toothed, spreading rays. Bracteas awl- 

 shaped, scattered. Cal. hemispherical, nearly smooth 3 scales 

 of the outer one linear. Seeds clothed with short hairs. Down 

 roughish. Recept. beset with very short hairs between the seeds, 

 but not chaffy. 



10. S. saracenicus. Broad-leaved Ragwort. 



Rays spreading, nearly entire! Flowers corymbose. Leaves 

 lanceolate, serrated, minutely downy. Stem solid. 



S. saracenicus. Linn. Sp. PL \22l. mild. v. 3. 2004. Fl.Br.SS7. 

 Engl. Bot.v.Si.t. 22\l. Hook. Scot.244. Jacq. Austr. t.\S6. 



S. n. (J5. Hall. Hist. V. 1.28. 



Virga aurea maxima, radice repente. Raii Sun. 1 77. Moris.v. 3. 123. 



V. aurea angustifolia serrata, sive Solidago sarracenica. Bank. 

 Hist. V. 2. 1063./. 



Solidago sarracenica. Fuchs. Hist. 728. f. Ic.423. f. Trag.Hisf. 

 4S7.f. Ger. Em. 420./. Dod.Pempt.\4\.f. Lob. Ic. 299. f. 



In moist meadows and i)asturcs, or watecy lanes, rare. 



Plentifully by a rivulet between M^lls and (Jlastonbuiy. Bobarf. 

 Near Halifax. Mr. Newton. \'ery common in the fields at Sal- 

 keld, Cumberland ; Mr. Nicholson. Dill. Near Chester. .1/;-. 

 Okcll. About Settle, Yorkshire. .Mr. J. Windsor. In a moist lane 

 near Prcbton hall, between Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendall, West- 

 moreland J also in the King's park, Edinburgh. I iiad siijjposed 

 it might have been planted in the last-mentioned place, but Dr. 

 Hooker, in his fVorr/, mentions many stations of this plant in the 

 Lowlands of Scotland. JXof'ci'cn r/ilL j/i-'\rktifrt '-j. 



Perennial. July, Augwit. 



Roof creeping. Stems erect, from 3 to ."> feet high, full of pith, an- 



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