80 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Section I.— VULGARES. Eeich.fil. 



Annual, herbaceous. Stem weak or flexuous, lax-corymbosely 

 branched at the apex. Leaves flaccid, pinnatifid. Outer phyl- 

 laries much shorter than the strapshaped inner ones. Ligulate 

 florets of the ray none, or short and revolute. 



SPECIES I.— SENECIO VULGARIS. Linn. 



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Plate DCOXL. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLIX. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 263. 



Stem weak, juicy, fragile, sub-paniculately branched. Lower 

 leaves oblanceolate or obovate, narrowed towards the base ; upper 

 ones oblong, semi-amplexicaul, with distinct auricles ; all sinuate- 

 pinnatifi-d, with the segments sub-equal, toothed. Corymbs 

 separate, terminating the stem and branches. Anthodes slightly 

 drooping. Pericline conico-cylindrical, glabrous or puberulent ; 

 outer phyllaries about one-fourth the length of the inner ones. 

 Florets of the ray none, or short and revolute. Achenes hispid 

 on the ribs. Plant glabrous, or hairy with the hairs articulated 

 but not gland-tipped. 



Var. a, genuinus. 

 Heads discoid. 



Var. 0, racUatus. 



Heads with a ray of short revolute ligulate florets. 



In cultivated and waste ground, &c. Very common, and gene- 

 rally distributed. Var. 3 I have seen only in the Channel Islands. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. All the year. 



Stem 6 to 18 inches high, irregularly branched, striated, succu- 

 lent towards the apex. Leaves very variable in the depth of inci- 

 sion. Corymbs few-flowered, paniculately arranged. Anthodes 

 \ inch long, at first subsessile, at length long-stalked. Outer phyl- 

 laries tipped with black. Elorets yellow ; the ray, when present, 

 very short. Plant sometimes glabrous, sometimes more or less 

 thickly clothed with woolly white hairs which are not tipped with 



glands. 



Common Groundsel. 



French, Sene^on Commun. German, Kreuz-Krcmt. 



