106 39, COMPOSITE. 



B. Florets of the ray large and spreading. 



1. Leaves pinnatifid. 



4. S. JACOBS 'A, L. Common- Ragwort. Stem erect, striate, 

 branched. Le. bipinnatifid, terminal lobe large, segments spread- 

 ing, toothed, and cut, glabrous, sometimes with a loose down. 

 Fl.- heads large, handsome, golden yellow, in compact corymbs. 

 Scales of the involucre tipped with black, outer ones few, very 

 small. Achenes of the ray smooth, of the disk silky. 



Very common. Waste ground and roadsides; a good crop with "bad farmers. 

 (B) P. 79. 



5. S. AQUATICUS, Huds. Marsh- Ragwort. Often passed over 

 as the former species. Lowermost leaves stalked, obovate, or 

 oblong, crenate, upper ones lyrate, pinnately cut or serrate, 

 glabrous. Fl. -heads large, with a broad ray, bright yellow, on 

 long peduncles, loosely corymbose. Achenes all smooth. 



Frequent. Sides of rivers and marshy places. (B) P. 7 8. Cambuslang; 

 banks of Clyde from Renfrew to Arran. 



6. S. TENUIFOLIUS, Jacq. Hoary -Ragwort. Rhizome creeping. 

 Stem erect, 2 3 ft. high. Le. pinnatifid, regularly divided, seg- 

 ments linear, slightly revolute, under side of the le. and stem 

 cottony. Outer scales of the involucre half the length of the 

 inner. Achenes all silky. 



Very rare. Woodhall, near Calderbank, a few miles from Airdrie. (E) P. 7 8- 



2. Leaves undivided. 



7. S. SARACENICUS, L. Broad-leaved Groundsel. Stem erect, 

 solid, 3 8 ft. high. Le. lanceolate, sessile, acute, quite smooth, 

 teeth small, incurved. Fl. -heads small, corymbose, few-flowered. 



"In a small island on the Clyde, a little below Bothwell bridge," Dr. Brown in 

 Hopk. FL Glot. Still growing in the same station. " Border of a field near 

 Mugdock Castle," Hopk. (I) P. 7 8. 



30. DORONICUM. Leopards-Bane. 



*D. PARDALIANCHES, L. Great Leopard' s-Bane. Ehizome 

 creeping, stem with few le., 2 3 ft. high, erect, hairy. Lower 

 le. on long naked petioles, cordate, toothed ; intermediate stem 

 ones semi-amplexicaul, by the petiole being dilated at the base ; 

 upper ones sessile, clasping, all hairy. Fl. -heads large, on long 

 peduncles. Florets yellow. 



Rare. Woods and banks. P. 57. Banks of Clyde below Carmyle ; near 

 Cambuslang, &c. 



31. FNULA. Elecampane. 



*I. HELENIUM, L. Stem erect, stout, 23 ft. high. Le. 

 ovate, toothed, clasping the stem, smooth above, downy beneath. 



