84 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Section III.— JACOB^J^. Beich. 



Perennial or biennial. Stem rigid, erect, fastigiato-corymbosely 

 branched at the apex. Leaves firm, pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid. 

 Outer phyllaries much shorter than the inner ones, lanceolate- 

 acuminate. Ligulate florets of the ray numerous, elongate, flat 

 and spreading, at length reflexed, very rarely absent. 



SPECIES Y.— SEN E CIO ERUCIPOLIUS. Linn. 



Plate DCCLIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXVI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 141. 



S. temiifolius, Jacq. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 574. Hook, k Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 253, 



Perennial. Eootstock somewhat woody, very shortly creeping. 

 Stem stiff, straight, sparingly cottony, corymbosely branched at 

 the apex, with the branches erect. Radical leaves oblanceolate or 

 obovate, crenately lobed ; lower stem-leaves stalked ; upper ones 

 amplexicaul, embracing the stem with palmately-cut auricles ; all 

 firm, flattish, puberulent, pale beneath, more or less deeply pin- 

 natifid, with the lobes parallel, oblong or strapshaped, toothed or 

 entire. Corymbs mostly combined into an irregular terminal 

 flat-topped compound corymb. Anthodes erect. Pericline oblong- 

 hemispherical, puberulent, especially at the base ; outer phyllaries 

 half the length of the inner. Achenes all hispid on the ribs. 

 Plant pubescent. 



Roadsides, ditch-banks, and borders of fields. Not uncommon, 

 especially on calcareous soils, but not confined to them. Rare in 

 Scotland, where it appears only to occur in the county of Berwick. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems growing in tufts, 18 inches to 4 feet high. Leaves very 

 variable in the degree of their incision, the lower ones less deeply 

 divided than the upper. Corymbs of the lower branches distinct 

 from the main terminal compound corymb. Anthodes f to f inch 

 across, on peduncles with small bracts resembling the outer phyl- 

 laries. Plorets bright-yellow, the ligulate ones numerous, mostly 

 4-nerved. Achenes oblong-cylindrical, very pale-brown ; pappus 

 yellowish- white. Plant varying much in the degree of pubescence, 

 which is sometimes of short, sometimes of elongate curled hairs. 



Soary Bagicort. 

 French, Senegon ci Feuilles de Boquette. German, RavkenhUittriger Baldgreis. 



