416 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Doronicum. 



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

 radiant florets. Cor. compound, radiant ; Jlorets 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 teetli. Filam. in the tubular 

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

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

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

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

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

 pressed, furrowed. Down 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 herbs, rather downy, with 

 upright corymbose ster.is, broad, heart-shaped or oblong, 

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

 Jlowers, earlier than most of this tribe. 



1. D. Par daliaiic lies. Great Leopard's-bane. 



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

 rest clasping the stem. 



D. Pardalianches. Linn. Sp. Pl.\247, M'illcL v. 3. 2\\3. Light/. 



485. FLBr:896. Engl. Bot.v.d.t. 630, Hook. Scot. 245. Hopk. 



Glott. 104. Mill. /c. 85. t. 128. Jacq. Austr. t. 350. 

 D. n. 88. Hall. Hist. v.\. 36. 

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

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

 D. tertii varietas. Lob. Ic. 649./. 

 Aconitum Pardalianches minus. Matth. Valgr. v.2A29.f. 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. Light/oot. 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 Sahng 

 hall, Essex. Mr. Wal/ord. 



Perennial. May. 



Root of several knobs, connected by long fibres, creeping j woolly 

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



