KAG-WOBT. 



Senecio Jacobaa. Nat. Ord., Composites. 



UE present plant suffers from 

 the misfortune of its common- 

 ness. Hooker, we see, speaks of 

 it as " too plentiful." Were 

 it not so familiar a plant, its 

 sturdy growth and golden mass 

 of star-like flower-heads would 

 doubtless render it a favourite, 

 out what people can see almost 

 any day they soon cease to regard. 

 We have seen many a tender plant 

 carefully nurtured in the hothouse 

 that has not the inherent beauty of 

 the rag-wort, but then one comes 

 from Java and the other can be got 

 in the next field, and everybody 

 understands what a difference that makes. 

 Where the pastures are mown for hay the 

 plant may be kept down, as the rag-wort, though a 

 perennial, seems unable to thrive under such treatment, 

 unlike many plants that only shoot up more strongly 

 and bushily than ever after being cut down. In pasture- 

 lands and meadows that are not thus annually cleared 

 the rag- wort escapes the bite of the horses and cattle and 



