88 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



counties, as far North as the Porth and Clyde, and northward to 

 Aberdeen, but most probably introduced. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Pootstock emitting long subterranean white or pink stolons. 

 Stem 3 to 5 feet high, very leafy. Lower leaves 3 to 8 inches long 

 by f to 2 inches broad, attenuated at the base, but scarcely stalked ; 

 those towards the middle of the stem slightly amplexicaul but 

 without distinct auricles, finely serrate, with small cartilaginous 

 teeth slightly incurved. Per|cline J inch long. Anthodes f inch 

 broad. Plorets bright-yellow. Plant nearly glabrous. 



Broad-leaved Ragwort. 



French, Senegon Sarrasin. German, Saracenischer Baldgreis. 



SPECIES IX.— SENECIO PALUDOSUS. Linn. 



Plate DCCLVIII. 



Reich Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXXIV. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 399. 



Pootstock very shortly creeping. Stem erect, arachnoid- 

 pubescent, simple, except at the extreme apex, where it is corym- 

 bosely branched. Leaves sessile, scarcely amplexicaul, strap- 

 shaped-elliptical, attenuated at both ends ; lowest ones strap- 

 shaped-oblanceolate, sub-petiolate ; all very sharply serrate, more 

 or less arachnoid-hoary beneath. Corymbs simple and solitary, or 

 several combined into a rather irregular compound corymb. 

 Anthodes rather few, erect. Pericline cylindric - hemispherical, 

 glabrous or arachnoid - pubescent ; outer phyllaries numerous, 

 one-third the length of the inner, linear. Pay-florets 10 to 16. 

 Achenes all glabrous. 



Pen ditches. Now very rare and nearly extinct. In Wicken 

 Pen, and three miles below Ely, Cambridgeshire, and in the coun- 

 ties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincoln. 



Ensrland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 4 to 6 feet high. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long by J to f inch 

 broad, with the teeth very long and slender, directed towards the 

 apex of the leaf ; middle leaves very slightly amplexicaul, without 

 distinct auricles. Anthodes 1^ inch across. Plorets bright-yellow. 

 Plant variable in the degree of pubescence on the stem and under 

 side of the leaves. Pericline arachnoid at the base. 



Of this species I have seen no British specimens. 



Great Fen Ragwort. 

 French, Senegon des Marais. German, Sumpf Baldgreis. 



