312 THE DAISY FAMILY. 



51. Slendeb Ragwort — {Senecio tenuifoUusJ) 

 Dry hedgebanks, not infrequent. Chorlton ; Stretford ; Leigh ; 

 Rostherne ; Patricroft ; Stockport ; Alderley, by the road to Wilmslow ; 

 and abundant between Hyde and Apethorne. Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, ii. 356 (as Senecio erucmfolius) ; E. B. viii. 574. 



52. Broad-leaved Ragwort — {Senecio Saracenicua.) 



Abundant at the bottom of a croft at Blackammon, near Astley ; at 



Boothstown (in one locality), and at Tortee, near Barton, growing 



four to five feet high. (J. E.) " Left bank of the Metsey, opposite 



Woolston, near Warrington." (B. G.) FI. July, August. 



E. B., xxxi. 2211. 



53. Leopard's-bane — {Dordnicuni Pardalicinches.) 



By the side of a little stream between Knutsford and Toft, 1855. 

 Fl. June, July. 



Curtis, iii. 524; E. B., Supp. i. 2054; Baxter, ii. 157. (E. B. ix. 630 is the 

 Doronicum plantagineum. 



54. Common Flea-bane — {Pulicuria dysenterica.) 



Moist waysides and near ponds, frequent, especially where the land 

 is heavy and cold. Victoria Park ; Bowdon ; Wilmslow. Fl. August, 

 September. 



Curtis, i. 201 ; E. B. xvi. 1115 (both as Inula dysenterica). 



Well distinguished by its soft and hoary foliage, and the ray-florets being fine 

 and slender, like those of the coltsfoot. 



55. Daisy — [Bellis perennis.) 



Meadows, pastures, and waysides, everywhere ; in bloom, more or 



less, all the year round, the robin of field-flowers, but in the plenitude 



of its innocent beauty in early summer. Childi'en say that when the 



foot can be placed upon nine daisies at once, spring is at its height. 



After frostless winters, it is abundant by the middle of February. 



I have seen fields, in mild warm districts, quite inundated with it on 



the 20th. ' 



Curtis, i. 02 ; E. B. vi. 124 ; Baxter, i. 44. 



Many varieties occur in gardens, — tlie double white, the double white and pink, 

 the deep crimson double, with the (lorcts quilled, and that curious plant, the 

 " hen and chickens," in which a number of smaller daisies sprout from under- 

 neath the principal one. 



