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downy beneath. Lightf. p. 477, and 476 (T. hylrida). 

 E. B. t. 431, and 430 (T. hybridd). 



HAS. River-sides, common. Fl. April, May. I/. 



Root much creeping. Leaves, which come after the flowers, exces- 

 sively large, all radical on long footstalks. Scape a span high, thick 

 and scaly, with lanceolate spreading bracteas. flowers purplish. 

 Some plants have all thejlorets with perfect germens, in which case 

 the stigma is deeply cleft and linear, and the anthers are imperfect 

 and not united 5 others have imperfect germens, when the stigma is 

 very much incrassated and ovate, tuberculated, and very slightly 

 notched, whilst at the same time the anthers are perfect, united or 

 syngenesious, purple, with white pollen. f he former, with the per- 

 fect germens, producing no seed, have almost universally gone by 

 the name of T. hybrida ; and to the latter the name of T. Petasites 

 has usually been confined. As these plants frequently grow sepa- 

 rate, the fruit is rare j but nature has made ample amends, and by 

 the long creeping roots this species is multiplied, and proves very 

 destructive to pasture lands. The early flowering of this plant in- 

 duces the Swedish farmers to plant it near the bee-hives. Thus 

 we see in our gardens the bees collected on its affinities, Titss. alba 

 andfragrans, at a season when scarcely any other flowers are ex- 

 panded. 



27. SENECIO. 



* Florets all tubular. 



1. S. vnlgaris (common Groundsel}, leaves semiamplexicaul 

 pinnatifid toothed, flowers in clustered corymbs destitute of a 

 ray. Lightf. p. 478. E. B. t. 747. 



HAS. Waste grounds, fields, and hedges, abundant. FL the summer 



through. Q . 

 A span to a foot high. Flowers small, yellow. Used as cataplasms 



by the Highlanders, Lightf. Birds are very fond of the buds and 



young leaves. 



** Flowers rayed, with the ray rolled back. 



2. S. viscosns (stinking Groundsel), ray revolute, leaves pinna- 

 tifid and viscid, scales of the involucre lax hairy. Lightf. 

 p.47S. E.B.t.32. 



HAS. Waste places, hedge banks, &c. At Leven, on the coast cf 

 Fife, near the salt works -, at Dysart, by the Pier, and at Charles- 

 town, Lord Elgin's Lime-works, Lightf. King's Park and Figget 

 Whins, Maugh. Rawhead, by Glasg., Ure. Fl. July, Aug. 0, 

 gem 1 2 feet high, much branched and diffuse, remarkable for its 

 viscid hairs and fetid smell. 



3. S. lividus (green-scaled Groundsel), " ray revolute, leaves 

 amplexicaul lanceolate pinnatifid and toothed, ovate scales of 

 the involucre very short acute not discoloured/' Sin. E. B. 

 *.2515. 



HAB. Hill of Ten-haven, Angus-shire, abundant, G. Don. FL SepU 



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