1082 SENECIO. [CLASS XIX. ORDER Il, 
pinnatifid, toothed, and viscid, as is the whole plant ; involucre with 
the outer scales half as long as the inner, and lax; florets of the ray 
close, rolled back ; stem branched, spreading. 
English Botany, t. 32.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 430.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 304.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 146. 
Root fibrous, the whole plant clothed with viscid glutinous pube- 
scence. Stem erect, about a foot high, round, furrowed, much 
branched and spreading. eaves numerous, pinnatifid, the lobes 
oblong, obtuse, sinuated, toothed, sessile, and often embracing the 
stem. Inflorescence a terminal spreading panicle, peduncles erect. 
Bractea linear lanceolate. Involucre of erect linear lanceolate viscid 
scales, the outer ones loose, half as long as the inner. Jlorets of the 
ray ligulate, the limb closely rolled back, those of the disk tubular, 
five toothed, all bright yellow. J’ruit oblong, pale, smooth. Pappus 
white, silky, erect, rough. 
Huabitat.—W aste ground, especially in a chalky or sandy soil. 
Annual; flowering in July and August. 
This plant is remarkable, from its clothing of soft viscid pube- 
scence, and the strong foetid smell which it gives out when rubbed. 
3. S. sylvat'icus, Linn. (Fig. 1286.) Mountain Groundsel. Leaves 
deeply pinnatifid, the lobes linear, obtuse, toothed, and clothed with 
a loose cottony pubescence ; involucre scales linear, erect, the outer 
ones small, close pressed ; florets of the ray wanting, or closely rolled 
back; stem erect, simple, terminating in a corymbose panicle. 
English Botany, t. 748.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 431.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 304.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 146. 
G. lividus. Leaves eared at the base, and amplexicaul. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 304.—-S. lividus.—English 
Botany, t. 2515.—English Flora, p. 450.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 146. 
Root fibrous, the whole plant more or less clothed with short pu- 
bescence, somewhat glutinous, and a loose cottony cobweb-like 
pubescence. Stem erect, simple, round, striated, leafy, about two feet 
high, terminating in a corymbose panicle of numerous flowers. 
Leaves about two inches long, irregularly pinnated, with oblong 
toothed lobes, sessile, or dilated at the base and auriculated, embracing 
the stem. Jnvolucre cylindrical, smooth or downy, the scales linear, 
awl-shaped, the outer ones very short and small. J’lorets mostly all 
tubular, five toothed, sometimes those of the ray ligulate, the lip 
oblong, close, rolled back. ruit oblong, pale, downy. Pappus 
white, spreading, slender, roughish. 
Habitat.—Dry hilly pastures and waste places, in a sandy soil. 
Annual; flowering in July. 
This, like the last species, has an unpleasant odour when rubbed 
or bruised. Neither of them has been applied to any particular use. 
