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beneath, and golden yellow flowers. Lower leaves triangular, 

 sagittate or cordate, longer than broad, coarsely toothed, stalked ; 

 upper leaves lyrate-pinnatifid or pinnate, auricled. Achenes 

 glabrous. 



Alpine and sub-alpine pastures. July, August. 



Distribution. Carpathians and Eastern Alps. 



Senecio alpinus Scop. (S. cordifolius Clairv.). S. cordatus Koch. 



Stems 1-2 feet high. Leaves undivided, cordate-ovate, serrate, 

 longer than broad, unequally dentate, lowermost webbed ; leaf- 

 stalk auricled at the base, often with triangular appendages. 

 Several medium-sized capitula. Flowers yellow. 



Alpine and sub-alpine pastures, especially near chalets and 

 borders of woods ; 4300-6500 feet. July, August. Very local. 



Distribution. Alps of Central Europe, Haute Savoie, Switzer- 

 land, Italy; Vosges. 



Senecio Fuchsii Gmelin. (Plate XIX.) 



A tall plant, 3-4 feet high, with oblong-lanceolate, toothed leaves, 

 attenuated and sometimes sub-petioled at the base, but never 

 amplexicaul. Stem-leaves lanceolate-acuminate. Numerous capi- 

 tula in a large, loose corymb. Ligules 3-5 in number, yellow, one 

 being longer than the rest. 



Mountain gorges and woods, especially in the sub-alpine regions. 

 July to September. 



Distribution. Central and Western Alps, Switzerland, Jura, and 

 many districts in Central Europe. 



We have seen this plant at elevations of from 6000 to 7000 feet 

 above La Grave in Dauphiny, and on the Joch and Surenen Passes 

 in Switzerland, and it is very abundant in the picturesque Gorge 

 of Trient which skirts the Tete Noir. 



Senecio nemorensis L. (S. Jacquinianus Reichb.). 



Very similar to the last, but the leaves are rather broader and it 

 flowers earlier. Leaves with short hairs on the under side, semi- 

 amplexicaul ; upper and middle stem-leaves suddenly narrowed 

 into a broadly- winged leaf -stalk. Involucre campanulate-cylindrical. 

 Pappus as long as the fruit. 



Bushy places among boulders and damp gorges, especially 

 in Alpine valleys and in the Jura. June to September. 



Distribution. Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, Jura, Vosges, 

 Germany, Central Europe. 



S. aurantiacus DC. (Cineraria aurantiaca Hoppe). 



Stem 6-1 8 inches high. Lower leaves ovate or lanceolate, nearly 

 glabrous, grass-green or greyish, flocculent, most of them narrowed 

 into a short, broad leaf-stalk. Capitulum about an inch in dia- 



