58 SPRING FLOWERS. 



flower-heads single, on radical peduncles ; the ray-florets white, 

 tinged with pink, those of the disk small, yellow, tubular. 

 Pastures and meadows. Fl. March to November. 



(59) Senecio. GROUNDSEL. 



S. vulgaris : annual; leaves pinnatifid, toothed, smoothish; 

 flower-heads without ray-florets, consisting wholly of yellow 

 tubular disk-florets. Simson. A weed everywhere. Fl. at 

 all seasons. 



(60) TussilagO. COLTSFOOT. 



T. Farfara : leaves heart-shaped, angular or toothed, cot- 

 tony beneath; flower-heads solitary, appearing before the 

 leaves, with bright yellow ligulate ray-florets. Moist waste 

 places. Fl. March, April. 



T. Petasites : leaves heart-shaped, unequally toothed, cot- 

 tony ; flower-heads in panicles, nearly dioecious, pinkish ; the 

 florets all tubular (males), or nearly all small and filiform 

 (females), not ligulate. Butterbur. Moist meadows. Fl. 

 April. 



(61) Doronicum. LEOPARD'S-BANE. 



D. Pajdalian.ch.es : leaves heart-shaped, toothed, the radical 

 ones stalked, the rest stem-clasping ; flower-heads usually 

 3 to 5, with numerous long narrow ligulate ray-florets. 

 Mountain pastures. Fl. May. 



(62) Leontodon. DANDELION. 



It. Taraxacum : leaves all radical, milky, oblong-lanceolate, 

 runcinately pinnatifid; flower-heads large, solitary, on hollow 

 peduncles, with numerous yellow florets, all ligulate. Culti- 

 vated and waste ground everywhere. Fl. March to July. 



