82 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



leaves with the interval between the lobes toothed ; the lower 

 branches elongated so as at length to bring their corymbs of an- 

 thodes up to the level of the one that terminates the main stem. 

 Anthodes larger, f inch long, tapering much towards the apex. 

 Elorets of the ray always present, rather pale-yellow. Achenes 

 roughened on the ribs, dark-grey, with longer and more silky hairs 

 than in S. vulgaris. 



The variety 3, which scarcely deserves to be raised even to that 

 rank, grows with the typical form. 



*\Mountain Groundsel. 



French, Senegon des Bois. German, Wold Baldgreis. 



SPECIES III.— S E N E C I O VISCOSUS. Linn. 

 Plate DCCLII. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 577. 



Stem stiff, tough, rough, almost woody at the base, irregularly 

 corymbosely branched, with the branches ascending - spreading. 

 Lower leaves obovate, narrowed towards the base ; upper ones 

 oblong, sessile, scarcely amplexicaul ; all deeply sinuate-pinnatifid, 

 with the segments nearly equal and toothed or pinnatifid. 

 Corymbs combined into a large very irregular terminal round- 

 topped corymb. Anthodes erect. Pericline ovoid-conical, densely 

 glandular - pubescent ; outer phyllaries half the length of the 

 inner. Florets of the ray short, revolute. Achenes entirely gla- 

 brous. Plant thickly pubescent with gland-tipped hairs. 



On waste places, groimd which has been recently disturbed, 

 and sandy seashores. Local, but widely distributed, extending 

 from Kent to Aberdeen on the east, and Glamorgan to Dum- 

 barton on the west, of the island. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Plant 6 to 18 inches high, with the stems solitary or several 

 from the crown of the root, each at first paniculately branched, but 

 the lateral branches at length growing out till the whole forms a 

 round-topped bush. Leaves broader than in the preceding species, 

 and with the incisions between the segments deeper than in S. vul- 

 garis, and the segments more cut than in S. sylvaticus. Anthodes 

 \ inch long. Plorets yellow. Achenes without hairs, yellowish. 

 Whole plant dark-green, foetid. 



StinMng G^^oundsel. 



French, Seueqon Visqueux. German, Klehriger Baldyreis. 



