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57. SENECIO, GROUNDSEL. (Latin: seuex, an old man, referring 

 to the hoary liairs of many species, or to the white hairs of the pappus.) 

 V.P- '^•J ^ Xo raij flowers; plant not ciimhing. 



S. vulgaris, Linn. Com.mon (iuoLNDSEL. A low weed in waste or 

 cultivated gmunds Yj. ; corymbose, nearly smooth, with pinnatifid and 

 toothed leaves ; flowers yellow. Eu. 



* * Heads with no rays and onhj Q-Vl disk flowers, small, i/ellou-i ; stem 



extensively climbinrj, more or less twining. 



S. scdndens, DC. Cult, as house plant under the name of Gkrmax 

 Ivv, but it is from Cape of Good Hope, and resembles Ivy only in the 

 leaves, which are round heart-shaped or angled and with 3-7 pointed lobes, 

 soft and tender in texture, and very smooth ; the flowers seldom pro- 

 duced. 11 



* * * With rai/ flowers, native herbs; flmcers spring and eitrhj snmmer. 



S. lobatus, Pers. Butterwekd. Very smooth, l°-o^ high, with 

 tender lyrate-pinnatitid or pinnate and variously lobed leaves ; small 

 heads in naked corymbs, and about 12 conspicuous rays. N. Car., W. 

 and S. 



S. aiireus, Linn. jGolden KacxWOrt, Squawweed. Cottony when 

 young, becoming smooth with age, sometimes quite smooth when young, 

 with simple stems l°-3° high ; root leaves simple and in different varie- 

 ties either round, obovate, Jieart-shaped, oblong, or spatulate, crenate or 

 cut-toothed on slender petioles, lower stem leaves lyrate, upper ones ses- 

 sile or clasping and cut-pinnatifid ; corymb umliel-like ; rays 8-12. Com- 

 mon in low grounds, and very variable. 11 



* * * * Heads vith rags and mimerons disk flowers ; cult, for ornament. 



*- Flowers all yellow. % 



S. Cineraria, DC. (or CinerXria mar/tima), of Mediterranean coast, 

 an old-fashioned house plant, ash-white all over (whence the name Cine- 

 raria and the popular one of Dtsxv Miller), with a woolly coating; 

 the branching stems somewhat woody at base ; leaves pinnately parted 

 and the divisions mostly sinuate-lobed ; the small heads in a dense 

 corymb. 



5. Kaempferi, DC. (or FARFtiGiuM grAnde). Cult, in greenhouses, 

 where it hardly ever flowers ; it is grown- for the foliage, the thick and 

 smooth rounded and angled rather kidney-sh3.ped root leaves blotched 

 with white ; some of the flowers more or less 2-lipped. China and 

 Japan. 



■*- -1- Hay fldu-ers purple, violet, blue, or varying to ichite, those of the 

 disk of similar colors or sometimes yellow. 



S. cruentus, T>C. Common Cineraria of the greenhouses, from Tene- 

 riffe ; herliaceous, smoothish, with the heart-shaped and angled more or 

 less cut-toothed leaves green above and usually crimson or ])urple on the 

 veins underneath, the lower with wing-margined i)etioles dilated into 

 clasping auricles at the base ; heads immerous in a flat corymb, the hand- 

 some flowers purple, crimson, blue, white, or party-colored. 21 



S. e/egans, Linn. Piuu'le Kagwout. Smuoth herb, with deeply pin- 

 natifld leaves, the lower petioled, the upper with half-clasping base ; the 

 lobes oblonii' and often sinuate-tootiied ; heads corymbed. with yellow or 

 purple disk flowers and purple or rarely white rays, (i) .\nd a full- 

 double variety, having the disk flowers "turned into rays. 21 Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



