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birds in cages, who love the young leaves, the buds, and the 

 plumy seeds. There are one or two sorts of Groundsel very 

 much like this, though they are not common. Our present plant 

 is known from them by having its calyx leaves black-pointed. 



COMMON RAGWORT. Senecio Jacolxea. 



Plate 13, fig. 4. 

 Flowers rayed. Corolla of the outer florets narrow. 



This grows in watery places, on road-sides, and in meadows . 

 The flowers are yellow, in terminal loose heads, with the petals 

 of the ray very narrow, and distant from each other. The 

 leaves are very deeply and unequally cleft, and smooth. Stem 

 two or three feet high. Flowering time July and August. 



MARSH RAGWORT. Senecio aquations. 



Plate 13, fig. 5. 

 Flowers rayed. Corolla of outer florets wide. 



In wet places, banks of rivers, &c., this may be almost 

 always found it is a plant very similar to the last, but higher 

 in growth, with larger flowers, the corollas of the ray flowers 

 wide, and the leaves not so much cut and divided. 



O. S. Stinking Groundsel, Wood Groundsel, Inelegant Groundsel, Hoary 

 Groundsel, Great Fen Ragwort, and Broad-leaved Groundsel. 



FLEABANE. PULICARIA. 



COMMON FLEABANE. Pulicaria dysenterica. 



Plate 13, jig. 6. 



Found in moist places, growing a foot high, and flowering 

 in the Autumn. Stem upright, branched at the top and bearing 

 one or two flowers upon each branch. Leaves oblong, partly 

 clasping the stem, wrinkled, and downy. Flowers an inch or 

 more across, with many rayed flowers. The plant has but a 

 slight taste and no smell. 



DAISY. BELLIS. 

 COMMON DAISY. JBellis perennis. 



Plate 13, jig. 7. 



If there be one plant more than another which is a general 

 favorite it is the Daisy, for it greets us in all our walks do 



