184 SYNGENESIA P. SUPERFLUA. 



Hob. Waste and cultivated grounds. Flowers at all sea- 

 sons. 



Birds kept in cages are fed with the young buds and leaves, 

 which have a saltish herbaceous flavour. Beat down into 

 a coarse pulp, and applied to the pit of the stomach, they 

 cause strong vomiting some hours after; and thus em- 

 ployed, have been found- to cure the ague. Edin. Med. 

 Essays and Obs. vol. ii. p. 42. A poultice of the whole 

 herb forms a good application to boils, and sprained 

 joints. 



* * Flowers with speedily revolute rays. 



2. S. viscosus, stem with many spreading branches, downy ; 

 leaves pinnatifid, viscid ; flowers yellow with revolute rays ; 

 outer calyx lax, almost as long as the inner. Stinking Groundsel. 



Hab. Waste ground, rare. About the riding-stable at 

 Easington plentiful. July Oct. Q 



3. S. sylvaticus, stem erect, straight, corymbose ; leaves sessile, 

 pinnatifid, lobed and toothed ; flowers yellow with revolute 

 rays ; outer calyx short, with bluntish discoloured tips. Moun- 

 tain Groundsel. 



Hab. Dry soils, banks and mounds of earth, common. 

 July. 



* * * Flowers with spreading rays. 



4. S. tenuifolius, stem erect, loosely cottony, straight ; leaves 

 pinnatifid, somewhat revolute, paler and shaggy beneath ; flowers 

 yellow with spreading oblong rays. Hoary Ragwort. 



Hab, Woods, and by road-sides, rare. " Plantation on the. 

 banks of the Tweed near Ord-mill, sparingly," Thomp. 

 Iload-sides between Swinton and Swinton-mill, Ber- 

 wickshire, Messrs A. and W. Baird, by whom it was 

 first added to the Scottish Flora. July, Aug. 7f 



5. S. Jacobcea, stem erect, branched ; leaves doubly pinnatifid, 

 somewhat lyrate, with spreading toothed smooth segments ; 

 flowers yellow, with spreading, oblong, toothed rays; seeds of 

 the disk silky. Common Ragwort. 



Hab. Pastures and road-sides. July, Aug. If. 



