146 COMPOSITE. [Senecio. 



nearly erect, downy ; flowers axillary, forming an interrupted 

 leafy spike; leaves linear-lanceolate, downy. Br. Fl. 1. p. 

 357. 



a. leaves woolly on both sides. G. sylvaticum, E. Bot. t. 

 913. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 414. 



y3. leaves nearly glabrous above, spike longer, more inter- 

 rupted. G. rectum, Huds.—E. Bot. t. 124. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 

 41.5. 



a. On Lettery mountain, Cunnamara. (3. on dry upland pastures, 

 and sometimes on low grounds, not unfrequent all over the country. 

 Fl. Aug. %.— Scales of the. involucre oblong, shining, with a broad 

 brown border. 



4. G. uliginosum, Linn. 3Iarsk Cudweed. Stem very 

 much branched, diffuse, woolly ; leaves linear-lanceolate, downy ; 

 flowers in terminal crowded clusters, which are shorter than the 

 leaves. Br. FL 1. p. 357. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 416. E. Bot. t. 

 1194. 



Sandy and wet places ; especially where water stands in winter. Fl. 

 Aug. Sept. 0. — A span high, much branched. Flowers two or three 

 together within the closely placed upper leaves, small, sessile, forming 

 oblong clusters at the extremity of the branches. Scales of the invo- 

 lucre yellowish-brown, shining, glabrous. 



5. G. minimum, Sm. Least Cudweed. Stem erect, branched ; 

 branches spreading; leaves lanceolate, acute, cottony; flowers 

 conical, clustered, lateral and terminal ; clusters longer than 

 the leaves. Br. Fl. 1. p. 357. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 417. E. Bot. L 

 1157. — Filago minima, Linn. 



Dry gravelly places. In a field between the Dargle and Powers- 

 court. Fl. July, Aug. 0. — Stems four to six inches high, slender, 

 branched above in a dichotomous manner. Involucres downy, broad 

 at the base. Florets yellowish. 



6. G. gcrmanicum, Huds. Common Cudweed. Stem erect, 

 proliferous at the summit ; leaves lanceolate, downy, acute ; 

 heads globose in the axils of the branches and terminal. Br. 

 Fl, J. p. 358. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 418. E. Bot. t. 1946.— Filago 

 germanica, Linn. 



Sandy and gravelly places, not unfrequent. Fl, June, July. 0. — 

 Stem six to eight inches high, erect, very leafy, terminated by a globular 

 head of small, ovate flowers, from beneath which spring two, three, 

 or more horizontal branches, in a proliferous manner, each terminated 

 by a head of flowers. Scales of the involucre yellowish, shining, very 

 acute, submucronate. 



9. Senecio. Linn. Groundsel. 



Lnvolucre cylindrical, its scales linear, equal, with several 

 smaller ones at the base, their tips often brown. Receptacle 



