214 45. COMPOSITE. 



lowermost much divided clasping, outer phyll. scattered few, 

 fr. hairy those of the ray glabrous. E. B. 1130. Root fleshy. 

 'St. 9 3 feet high, smooth, striate, branched, leafy. Corymb 

 with erect branches. Fr. of the ray with deciduous pappus. 

 Fl. yellow. Ray sometimes wanting [var. discoideus Koch]. 

 Waste ground. P. VII. IX. Ragwort. E. S. I. 



6. S. aquat'icus (Hill) ; /. glabrous, loiver I. stalked crenate or 

 dentate obovate or oblong slightly prolonged at the base undivided 

 or sublyrate blunt, upper 1. lyrate or pinnately cut, segments ob- 

 long or linear, st. round, corymbosely branched, fr. all glabrous. 

 E. B. 1131. St. erect, 1 4 feet high, simple or branched in 

 the upper half, branches ascending. Terminal lobe of the 

 lower 1. rounded below and narrowed into its stalk. Fl. yellow. 

 A larger much branched form has 1. all lyrate, term, lobe 

 truncate or subcordate below, seg. subspathulate, and was 

 supposed to be S. erraticus (Bert.) *. In marshy places. 

 P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



*** Heads witli spreading rays. Leaves undivided. 



7. S. paludosus (L.) ; 1. sessile long lanceolate tapering sharply 

 serrate cottony beneath, st. straight hollow, corymbs terminal, 

 ray of 1316 flowers. .#. B. 650. St. 46 feet high, some- 

 what woolly. Fl. yellow: those of the ray narrow. Fen 

 ditches, very rare. P. V. VII. E. 



8. S. saracen'icus (L.) ; /. sessile lanceolate acute glabrous 

 irregularly serrate especially the uppermost, st. straight solid, 

 corymbs terminal, ray of 6 7 flowers. E. B. 2211. S. salice- 

 torum Godr. St. 3 5 feet high, smooth. L. broad. Corymb 

 many-headed. Fl. yellow. There may be a second plant here 

 with 1. broadest below their middle very finely toothed, upper- 

 most nearly entire. Its 1. are much prolonged and rather 

 glaucous. It closely resembles S. Doria Jacq . Watery places, 

 local. P. VIII. E.S.I. 



B. Involucre without scales at its base. Heads with a spreading 

 ray. Leaves nearly entire. CINERAEIA L. 



9. S.palus'tris (Hook.) ; shaggy, st. much branched and corym- 

 bose above, I. broadly lanceolate half -clasping, lower 1. sinuate- 

 dentate. E. B. 151. St. 3 feet high, thick, hollow, leafy. 

 Heads erect. Fl. bright yellow. Fen ditches, now become 

 very scarce. B. VI. VII. E. 



1 The form with lyrate lower 1. is var. pennatifidus G. & G. H. & J. G. 



