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fijier than the type. The American, A. Chamissonis, is 

 ex:eptionally easy. 



3. montana (PL LVD. Aromatic; leaves opposite, 

 ova u e, oblong, the radical in rosettes close to the ground; 

 flowers in i-3 capitules, large, orange-yellow. July- 

 Augjst. Pastures of the Alps, rare in the Jura. One 

 of th> most generally used officinal plants ; all portions 

 contain Arnicine, and the flowers or leaves, after drying, 

 are enployed as stimulants, sudorifics, vulneraries or 

 antirheumatics. In some districts they are smoked 

 instead of tobacco. 



Senecio 



Eng. : Croundsel, Ragwort; Fr. : Sene?on ; Ger. : Kreuzkraut. 



The indispensable members of this group are S. 

 Doronicum whose vivid orange disks contrast so glor- 

 iously win the filmy silver of leaves and stem, the 

 somewhat dwarfer but not dissimilar aurantiacus, with 

 finer leaves and less startling flowers, the prostrate 

 incanus and certain non-Europeans, pulcher from Uruguay, 

 of doubtful hardiness but distinct with rosy flowers, and 

 the grand novelties from China, S. Clivorum, speciosus, 

 Ji^ilsonianus, o c which the first and third are bold, sturdy 

 growers, 3-5 K high, and magnificent in damp, partly 

 shaded places b/ the water side ; soeciosus is a dwarf with 

 beautiful rose Towers. The alpines love sunny, dry 

 banks in sandy kam and leaf-mould, under the shelter of 

 a low rock face. They are easily grown from seed and 

 very hard to kill ay any neglect. The characteristics of 

 the genus are : <nvolucral bracts in one rank, seldom 

 all tubular, capitiJes generally corymbose, but rarely 

 solitary. 



S. Doronicum (H. LV11). Covered with a light, 

 woolly down, whici falls on maturity; leaves thick, 



