COMPOSITE t 3 ? 



A. arborescens L. Shrubby Artemisia. Plant woody, 3-4 ft. high, white- 

 silky. Leaves silky and very white on both sides, bipinnatisect, with narrow 

 linear, obtuse segments. Involucre white tomentose. Receptacle covered with 

 long dirty white hairs. 



Naturalized on rocks and old walls on the Castle Hill at Hyeres, Toulon, 

 La Valette, and He de Port Cros. 



DORONICUM L. 



D. plantagineum L. Plantain Doronic. Root-leaves ovate, long petioled, 

 almost glabrous, toothed, stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile, half-amplexicaul. 

 Flowers yellow, in a very large, solitary terminal head. 



Slightly damp woods in a few places in the Var, e.g. Roquebrune and the 

 Foret du Dom. April- June. 



D. austriacum Jacq. and D. cordatum Lamk. are found in mountain 

 woods only in the Maritime Alps. The former has lower leaves ovate lanceo- 

 late suddenly contracted into a broadly winged petiole, upper leaves narrow and 

 amplexicaul. The latter has deeply cordate and long petioled lower leaves. 

 (Leopard's bane.) Flowers of both large, yellow. 



SENECIO L. 



S. Doria L. Plant 2-5 ft. high, erect, glabrous. Leaves fleshy, serrated ; 

 the lower ones large, oblong elliptic, produced below into a winged petiole, the 

 next lanceolate-oblong or oval, sessile, amplexicaul, the upper leaves small, 

 acuminate. Heads small, in irregular corymbs, with 4 or 5 short yellow ray 

 flowers. 



Damp places and sides of streams. June-August. 



S. Gerard! Gren. et Godr. Stem about i ft. high, woolly below. Leaves 

 thin and soft, woolly below and often above, lower ones ovate, rounded, abruptly 

 reduced to a long, winged petiole. Flowers pale yellow in a large and usually 

 solitary terminal head. Closely allied to the Alpine S. Doronicum which is 

 found in the Marges and Maritime Alps. 



Dry wooded slopes and hilly pastures. May-July. Peculiar to France. 



S. Cineraria DC. = Cineraria maritima L (Plate XVII). Stem erect, 

 branching, 1-2 ft. high, woody at base. Leaves pinnatifid, thick, upper ones 

 with narrow segments, dark green above, white tomentose beneath ; upper stems 

 also white. Heads numerous, in a close compound corymb. Involucre white 

 tomentose, achenes glabrous. Flowers yellow. 



Rocks, cliffs, and walls near the sea, but extending inland a considerable 

 distance, e.g. at Draguignan, Le Luc, Sollies- Toucas, and the Roja valley just 

 below S. Dalmazzo di Tenda. May-July. 



S. telonense Albert = S. Jacobasa x Cineraria. This hybrid was 

 found by the late M. Albert on Mont Coudon near Toulon, in rocks and shady 

 places, with the supposed parents. It has the habit of the former but with 

 rather larger heads, but the white felt of the latter. 



S. lividus L. Annual, r-i^ ft. high, glandular above. Leaves pinnatifid 

 with equal lobes, sessile, amplexicaul. Root-leaves usually purple beneath, pro- 

 longed below into a petiole, with obovate limb. Outer involucral bracts 4-5, 

 short. Heads few, in a loose corymb. Flowers yellow, with very short 

 rays. 



Pine-woods and sandy places, etc. May-June. 



S. vulgaris L. (Groundsel), S. viscosus L. (Viscous Groundsel), S. 

 gallicus VilL, S. crassifolius Willd., S. leucanthemifoIiusPm/. (rare near 

 Toulon and St. Tropez), S. Jacobaea L. (Ragwort), S. aquaticus Huds., 

 S. erucifolius L. and S. silvaticus L. (occasionally in mountain woods in 

 Alpes-Mant.) also occur. 



