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Way-sides and neglected pastures, too frequent. Fl. July, Aug. 

 If, — Stems two to three feet high, striated, branched. Flowers large, 

 golden yellow. 



6. S. aquaticus, Huds. Marsh Ragwort. Ray spreading, 

 elliptic-oblong, toothed ; leaves Jyrate, serrated, the lowermost 

 obovate and undivided ; fruit all smooth. Br. Fl. 1. p. 361. 

 E. FL v. iii. p. 434. E. Bot. t. 1311. 



Wet places, and by the sides of rivers and ditches. Fl. July, Aug. 

 % . — Flowers larger than the last. 



jjc if. # s}c Floivers rayed. Leaves undivided. 



7. S. saracenicus, Linn. Broad-leaved Groundsel. Ray 

 spreading, nearly entire ; flowers corymbose ; leaves lanceolate, 

 serrated, minutely downy ; stem solid. Br. Fl. 1. p. 362. E. 

 FL v. iii. p. 435. E. Bot. t. 2211. 



Woods nenr Bantry ; Mr. J. Drurnmond. On the ruins of Glen- 

 luce Castle, County of Antrim ; Mr. Templeton. Fl. July, Aug. If.. — 

 Three to five feet high, scarcely branched, corymbose at top. A doubt- 

 ful native. 



10. Tussilago. Linn. Colt's-foot. 



Involucre formed of a simple row of equal, linear scales. Re- 

 ceptacle naked. Floivers radiant. Corollas of the circum- 

 ference long, linear, numerous ; of the disk few. Pappus 

 simple. Scape single flowered. — Name altered from 1'ussis, 

 a cough, in the cure of which the plant has been employed. 



Sy?igenesia. Superftua. 



I. T. Farfara, Linn. Colt's-foot. Scape single flowered, 

 imbricated with scales; leaves cordate, angular, toothed, 

 downy beneath. Br. Fl. 1. p. 359. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 425. E. 

 Bot. t. 429. 



Moist and clayey soils, too abundant. Fl. March, April, before the 

 leaves appear. 1L . — FLwers yellow ; florets of the disk few. The 

 leaves have been used medicinally, as an infusion, or smoked like to- 

 bacco, for the relief of asthma. 



11. Petasites, Desf. Butter-bur. 



Nearly dioecious. Involucre imbricated with two rows of Ian* 

 ceolate scales. Floivers not radiant. Pappus simple. Scape 

 many-flowered. — Name, Trciuao's, a covering to the head, or 

 an umbrella ; from the great size of its foliage. 



Syngenesia. Supcrjlua. 



1. P. vulgaris, Desf. Butter-bur. Thyrsus dense, oblong ; 

 leaves cordate, unequally toothed, downy beneath, the lobes 

 approximate. Br. Fl. 1. p. 359.— T. Petasites, Iloppe. E. FL 

 v. iii. p. 425. — a. Flowers sterile., bearing anthers, rarely seed. 



