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2. 8. viscosus (Linn.) viscid or stinking Groundsel. Engl. Bot. 
t. 32. 
Locality. Waste ground, especially on chalky or gravelly soil 
yare. A. Fl. July, August. Area, 1. * * * * 
South Division. 
1. South-east District, “On chalky hillocks near Alderbury,” 
Dr. Maton, “ Nat. Hist. Wilts.” “Neighbourhood of Salisbury,” 
Mr. James Hussey. 
* Whole plant covered with viscid hairs, very fetid, much branched 
and straggling. The Alderbury station requires to be confirmed 
again on more recent authority. 
3. S. sylvaticus, (Linn.) wood or mountain Groundsel. Engi. 
Bot. t. 748. 
Locality. Ondry sandy or gravelly banks, and in heathy bushy 
places. A. Fl. July, September. Area, 1. * * 4 * 
South Division. 
1. South-east District, ‘ Amesbury downs.” Major Smith. 
North Division. 
4. North-west District, “ Chippenham,” Dr. Alexander Prior. 
Apparently rare in the county, these being the only localities 
recorded in my notes for this species. One foot high. Leaves finely 
divided. Plant with a disagreeable smell, but not so powerful as 
8. viscosus. 
[S. sqgualidus (Linn.) Engl. Bot. ¢. 600. S. chrysanthemifolius, 
(D. C.) ‘occurs at Pewsey (Dist. 1), but certainly escaped,” Rev. 
LT. F. Ravenshaw. “ Flor. Marib.’’| 
4. 8. tenuifolius, (Sm.) slender-leaved hoary Ragwort. Tenuis, 
(Lat.) slender or fine, and folium aleaf. Engl. Bot. t. 574. 8. 
—-erucifolius, (Linn.) 
Locality. Hedges and borders of fields, chiefly on chalk or 
gravelly soil. P. FU. July, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Dis- 
tributed throughout all the Districts. Nearly allied to the following 
but with more regular, less divided, and less spreading segments to 
the leaves. 
5. 8. Jacobea, (Linn.) St. James’ Ragwort. The specific name 
Jacobea refers to the plant coming into flower about St. James’s- 
