472 239.Senecio. 39. COMPOSITE, C. PI ex. cat 



Senecio hirsutiis, viscidus, major, odoratus, Rail Syn, 178, 2. 

 Senecio foetidus, Par/c. 671. 

 Erigerum tomentosura, Ger. em. 27S, 2. 

 Senecio viscosus, Lin. S. P. 1217. 

 Cotton groundsell. Stinking groundsell. 



Dry soils and rubbish ; annual; July to October. 

 Stem a foot high; calatliides large, radiated; peduncles 

 solitary ; pericliJie hirsute, viscid ; corollcB gold-yellow. 



9. Senecio vulgaris. Common groundsel. 



Stem upright, branched ; leaves stem-clasping, pinnatifid, 

 sinuated, toothed ; root-leaves petioled ; corymhus close ; 

 hractece lanceolate, short, pressed close. 



Senecio vulgaris, Raii Syn. 178, 1 ; Park. 671. 



Erigerum, Ger. em. 278, 1. 



Senecio vulgaris, Lin. S. P. 1216. 



Senecio semperflorens, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 



Cultivated places ; annual ; all the year. 



Stem rather bald; leaves blunt; pericline bald; calathides 

 flosculous. — Juice or a strong infusion is emetic, and ver- 

 mifuge, useful to expel botts from horses; bruised leaves 

 a good application to boils; seeds or rather calathides in 

 fruit given to small birds. 



LXV. 240. TUSSILAGO. Pliny. Colts-foot. 



Pericli?ie cylindrical, becomes bellied, and afterwards 

 entirely bent back ; scales many, linear, equal, in one se- 

 ries ; calathides radiated ; flowers all fertile ; of the centre 

 tubular, hei'maphrodite ; of the rays very numerous, female ; 

 ligulse linear ; dinanilius flat, becoming globose, pitted, 

 naked, bald ; ake?iia uniform, roundish ; pappus hairlike, 

 sessile, white, longer than the akenium. — Herb flowering 

 before the leaves appear ; calathides solitary ; peduncles 

 scaly ; leaves radical, large, angular. 



Tussilago vulgaris. . ,- Comynon colts-foot. 



Leaves heartshape, angulate-toothed, beneath downy ; 

 scape smooth, bracteated. 



Tussilago, Raii Syn. 173, 1 ; Ger. em. 811, 1 ; Park. 1220. 

 Tussilago Farfara, Lin. S. P. 1214. 



Folefooi. Hnrse-huof. BuUfoot. 



Damp chalky places; perennial ; March and April. 



Root creeping; scape tomentose; hrnctece bald ; calathides 

 drooping, becoming upright ; leaves petioled, upright, above 

 bald. — Leaves austere, bitter, mucilaginous, useful in coughs 



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