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BRITISH FLORA 



radical leaves are ovate, entire. The stem-leaves 

 are deeply divided nearly to the base. The flowers 

 are white or purple, with a very short spur. The 

 plant is 6-9 in. in height, and is an annual. 



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Michaelmas Daisy (Aster saligntis, Willd.). 

 The habitat of this species is waste places, fens, 

 and the plant is rare. The radical leaves are spoon- 

 shaped, blunt, entire. The stem-leaves are stalk- 

 less, thin, lance-shaped, with a narrow point. The 

 flowerheads are bluish-violet and yellow, the ray 

 violet, the disk yellow. The plant is 2-3 ft. high, 

 flowering- from August to October, and is a herb- 

 aceous perennial. 



Canadian Fleabane (Erigeron canadensis, L.). 



The habitat of this plant is waste places. The 



habit is erect. The stem is leafy, branched above, 

 hairy. The leaves are oblong, linear to lance- 

 shaped, fringed with hairs, entire, or with a few 

 teeth. The flowerheads are numerous, small, 

 yellow, panicled or corymbose. The involucre is 

 cylindrical, less than the ray florets, and at length 

 spreading. The phyllaries are slender, green, 

 with membranous border, smooth. The ray florets 

 are slender, sometimes purplish, the disk pale 

 yellow. The ligule is white, hardly longer than 

 the pappus, which is white. The plant is 6 in. to 

 2 ft. high, flowering from July to September, and 

 is a herbaceous annual. 



Peruvian Galinsoga (Galinsoga parviflora, R. & 

 P.). The habitat of this plant is cultivated fields, 

 roadsides, rough, marshy, stony ground. The 

 habit is erect. The plant is more or less downy. 

 The stem is slender. The branches are opposite. 

 The leaves are short-stalked, ovate, bluntly toothed, 

 fringed with hairs. The flowerheads are yellow 

 in repeatedly forked cymes. The ray florets are 

 few, 4-6, broadly ligulate, white, short. The disk 

 florets are yellow, as long as the phyllaries. The 

 flower-stalks are glandular, without bracts. The 

 involucre is hemispherical. The phyllaries are un- 

 equal, oblong, fringed with hairs. The achenes 

 are inversely ovoid, flattened, black. The pappus 

 scales, 8- 1 6, are narrowed to oblong. The plant 

 is 6-24 in. in height, flowering from July to October, 

 and is a herbaceous annual. 



Inula britannica, L. The habitat of this plant 

 is waste places. The plant is prostrate below, 

 then ascending, woody. The radical leaves are 

 lance-shaped, clasping, with many soft hairs, 

 which give them a dull appearance. The flower- 

 heads, 1-2, are yellow, on long stalks. The 

 achenes are hairy. The plant is 1-2 ft. high, 

 flowering in July and August, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



Yellow Camomile (Anthemis tinctoria, L.). 

 The habitat of this plant is railway banks, fields, 

 ballast-heaps, waste places, and cultivated ground. 

 The habit is erect. The stems are much-branched, 

 cottony. The leaves are 2-pinnatifid, downy below, 

 the segments parallel, decurrent, coarsely toothed. 

 The flowerheads are bright yellow, without a ray 

 sometimes, hemispherical, on long stalks, terminal 



The scales do not project. The achenes are square 

 in section, crowned with a membranous border, 

 undivided. The plant is 6-24 in. high, flowering 

 in July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial 

 or biennial. 



Rayless Camomile (Matricaria suaveolens, 

 Buch = M. discoidea, D.C.). The habitat of this 

 species is waste places. The plant is of low sta- 

 ture. The stem is densely leafy. The foliage 

 is like that of M. inodora. The flowerheads are 

 greenish -yellow, rayless, on short stalks. The 

 phyllaries are broadly membranous. The plant is 

 4-12 in. high, flowering from June to August, and 

 is a herbaceous annual. 



Cotula coronopi folia, L. The habitat of this 

 plant is waste places. The leaves are succulent, 

 lance-shaped, clasping, with acute lobes. The 

 flowerheads are brilliant-yellow, button-shaped, 

 without any ray florets, and small, solitary. The 

 plant is 4-12 in. in height, flowering in July and 

 August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Winter Heliotrope (Petasites fragrans, Presl = 

 Nardosmia fragrans). The habitat of this plant 

 is shrubberies and cliffs at Tenby, borders of 

 plantations, and waste places. The leaves are 

 heart-shaped, green, downy below. The flower- 

 heads are yellow, the female florets shortly ligu- 

 late. The flowers have the odour of vanilla. The 

 plant is 6-12 in. high, flowering from March to 

 May, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Petasites albus, Ga^rtn. -The habitat of this 

 plant is damp stony hollows, waste places, plant- 

 ations. The leaves are not so large as in the last, 

 heart-shaped, deeply scalloped, very white beneath. 

 The flowerheads are white or cream colour. The 

 plant is 6-12 in. high, flowering from March to 

 May, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Clammy Groundsel (Senecio viscosus, L.). The 

 habitat of this plant is waste dry ground, shingle, 

 sandhills. The plant is foetid, glandular, and 

 clammy. The habit is erect. The stem is stout, 

 much-branched, spreading, rigid, grooved, angled, 

 wavy, the segments oblong, unequally toothed and 

 lobed. The leaves are broad, more or less bi- 

 pinnatifid. The flowerheads are yellow, in ir- 

 regular corymbs, bell-shaped, on long stalks, and 

 are few, erect, broad. The involucre is clammy, 

 cylindrical. The ray florets are small, turned 

 down. The outer phyllaries are few, green, half 

 as long as the inner, and hairy. The achenes are 

 hairless, slender, ribbed. The plant is 6-24 in. 

 high, flowering from July to September, and is a 

 herbaceous annual. 



Senecio Cineraria, D.C. This plant is found to 

 hybridize with S. Jacobcea in Ireland. The stem 

 is woody. The whole plant is white and tomen- 

 tose. The leaves are densely white-felted below, 

 and deeply divided nearly to the base. The seg- 

 ments are broader and lobed at the ends. The 

 flowerheads are yellow, numerous. The plant is 

 1-2 ft. high, flowering from July to September, 

 and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Arctium minus, Bernh. The habitat of this 

 plant is waste places and woods. The plant is 

 smaller than A. majus. The central stems are 



