244 SYNGEN. FOLYGAM. SUPER!'.- 



Leaves embracing the stem with their bread-eared base. " Habit oi 

 the following. Flowers deep yellow, small," Sni. 



4. S. sylvaticus (Mountain Groundsel), ray re volute, leaver 

 sessile pinnatifid lobed and toothed, scales of the involucre 

 very short glabrous, stem erect straight corymbose. Lightf. 

 p.4SO. E.B.t.743. 



HAB. Dry upland soils, banks and mounds of earth, &c., Light/. 



About Tollcross, Glasg., Hopk. Fl. July. 0. 

 One foot high. Leaves finely divided. Plant with a disagreeable 



smell, but not so powerful as in S. viscosus. 



*** .Fi owe rs rayed, with the ray patent. Leaves pifixdlifid-. 



5. S. Jacolcea (common Ragwort), ray spreading, leaves lyrate 

 bipinnatiiid divaricated toothed glabrous, stem erect, pericarps 

 hairy. Lightf. p. 480. E. B. t. 1 130. 



HAB. Way-sides and neglected upland pastures, loo abundant. Fl. 

 July, Aug. I/ . 



Stem 2 3 feet high, striated, branched. Flowers large, golden yel- 

 low, in corymbs. Pericarps of the circumference hairy, those of 

 the disk glabrous. 



6. S. aquaticus (Marsh Ragivorl), ray spreading, leaves lyrate 

 serrated glabrous, the lowermost obovate and undivided, invo- 

 lucre hemispherical, pericarps glabrous. L\gktj\ p 485 (S. 

 Jacobceay.). E. .1.1131. 



HAB. Wet places, and by the sides of lakes. FL. July, Aug. 3/ . 

 Flowers larger than the last. 



**#* Flowers rayed. Leaves undivided. 



7. S. saracenicus (I road-leaved Groundsel], ray spreading, 

 leaves lanceolate sharply serrated nearly glabrous, corymbs of 

 rather few flowers. E'.B. t. 221 1. 



HAB. Moist meadows and pastures, rare. In a small island on the 

 Clyde a little below Bothwell-bridge, Dr. Brown. Border of a field 

 near Mugdoch Castle, Glasg., Hopk. Bank of Eningtur, a stream 

 flowing into the Don, Anderson. Between Castle Douglas and near 

 New Galloway, Maugh. Fl. July, Aug. I/ . 



Three to five feet high. Ray of the Jlower with very broad ligulate 

 florets. 



28. ASTER. 



1. A. Tripolmm (Sea Star-wort), stem glabrous corymbose, 

 leaves linear-lanceolate fleshy obscurely 3-nerved, scales of the 

 involucre lanceolate membranous obtuse imbricated. Light f. 

 p. 482. E. B. t. 87. 



HAB. Salt marshes on the sea-coasts, plentiful. JF7. Aug., Sept. "}/ 



One foot to two feet high. Flowers with the disk yellow; the ray 

 blueish purple, but this latter is often \yanting. 



29. SOLIDAGO. 



1. S. Virgaurca (common Golden-rod), cauline leaves lanceo- 



