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downy ; flowers numerous, yel- 

 low, scarcely exceeding the invo- 

 lucre. 



Some large-leaved specimens 

 of our native S. hrachyglossus, 

 V. V. Mueller, resemble S. i-ul- 

 ijdris superficially, but the for- 

 mer has 0-7 small ligulate flowers 

 to each head, the invohicral 

 bracts number only 8, and the 

 down of the akene is denser and 

 more silky. 



Roadsides, pasture, cultivated 

 land. — July - Nov. — Almost all 

 temperate parts of the globe. 



2. S. mikanioides, Otto. 

 Capr Ivy. Glabrous perennial 

 with twining stems ; leaves 

 flat, long - stalked, subtriangu- 

 lar with -5 - 7 very shallow, 

 acute lobes ; stipules green, 

 kidney-shaped ; involucre of 8 

 linear, blunt bracts, with a few 



shorter ones on the pedicel just below the involucre ; 

 receptacle honeycombed and the edges of the pits shortly 

 toothed: flowers yellow, 10-12 in head. tAvice as long as the 

 involucre: akenes almost glabroics. N. scandenfi, DC. 



Waterfall Gully. — June-Sept. — South Africa. 



2. Erigeron, L. 



(Greek for Groundsel, from eri, early, and cirrnn, an old 

 man ; alluding to the Ibald receptacle.) 



Involucral bracts in 2-3 rows ; central flowers tubular 

 and bisexual, outer ones female tubular or ligulate; style- 

 branches blunt : anthers blunt at base ; akenes oblong, 

 compressed : pappus hairs simple, in 1 row. 



Outer flowers tubular 



Senecio vulgaris. 



Outer flowers ligulate 



E. Unifolius 1 

 TJ. mucronatng 2 



1. Erigeron 



annual, with short. 



iinifolius, Willd. Greyish-green 

 stiff hairs and longer, softer ones; 

 stems erect, striate, simple or branching, and in the latter 

 case the lateral branches exceed the central axis : leaves 

 1-nerved, tapering at base, the lower ones oblong, with 

 large, distant teeth, the middle ones lanceolate with a few 

 teeth, the uppermost linear and entire : heads drooping in 

 bud. on rather long peduncles, in racemes usually forming 

 a leafy panicle: flowers slightly exceeding the ovoid invo- 

 lucre, the central ones yellowish G 20, outer female flowers 

 numerous in .several rows, tubulai-. filiform, 2-3-toothed ; 



