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Section 4. SENECIONE^Z. Heads homogamous or hete- 

 rogamous, discoid or radiant. Anth. without appendages. Pap- 

 pus pilose or setaceous, rarely 0. 



22. (5.) DORONICUM Linn. Leopard' s-bane. 



fl. D. Pardalianches (L.); I. cordate denticulate, lowermost 

 L on long stalks, intermediate with clasping auricles at the base of 

 the stalk, uppermost sessile clasping, root creeping tuberous. 

 E. B. S. 2654. St. 23 feet high, erect, solitary, hollow, hairy. 

 L. hairy, minutely toothed, soft, blunt, the uppermost acute. 

 Lowest petioles not auricled. Heads several, phyll. lanceolate - 

 subulate. Florets yellow. The earlier heads overtopped by the 

 latter ones. Fr. oblong, furrowed, of disk hairy, of ray glabrous. 

 Damp and hilly woods arid pastures, rare. P. V. VII. 



f2. D. plantagineum (L. ?) ; L ovate denticulate, radical on 

 long stalks rounded or subcordate produced at the base, stem-l. 

 sessile clasping the lowermost with a winged and auricled stalk. 

 E. B. 630. (excl. leaf.) Crown of the root woolly. St. 23 

 feet high. Stem-l. narrowed in their lower half but sessile, up- 

 permost with a long taper point. Heads usually solitary, or, if 

 more, the lateral ones not overtopping the terminal one. Phyll. 

 subulate. Fr. of ray glabrous. Florets yellow. Damp places, 

 rare. P. VI. VII. E. S. 



23. (4.) SENECIO Linn. Ragwort. 



A. Involucre with smaU scales at its base. 



* Florets all tubular, or the marginal ones ligulate but revolute. 



1. S. vulgaris (L.); 1. half-clasping pinnatifid, segments di- 

 stant oblong obtuse and together with the rachis and auricles 

 acutely and unequally toothed, lower 1. narrowed into a stalk, 

 heads in clustered racemes, outer phyll. very short adpressed with 

 black points, ray 0. E. B. 747. Smooth or woolly. St. 612 

 in. high, branching. Heads small ; involucre oblong-conical, 

 glabrous ; florets yellow ; fr. silky. /3. radiatus (Koch) ; with a 

 single row of ligulate minute revolute marginal florets. Com- 

 mon. A.- 1. XII. Groundsel. 



2. S. viscosus (L.) ; /. deeply pinnatifid viscid glandular-hairy , 

 segments oblong unequally toothed and lobed, heads in an irre- 

 gular corymb, involucre viscid, outer phyll. half the length of the 

 inner hairy, ray small revolute, fr. glabrous. E.B. 32. St. 1 2 

 feet high, much branched, spreading. Heads on long stalks ; 

 inv. cylindrical ; fl. yellow. Waste ground, rare. A. VII. IX. 



3. S. sylvaticus (L.) ; 1. deeply pinnatifid downy, segments c-b- 

 long unequally toothed, heads corymbose, involucre downy, outer 



