CLASS XIX. ORDER II. | SENECIO. 1083 
wick Blowers with spreading rays, leaves pinnatifid. 
4, S. squa'lidus, Linn. (Fig. 1287) Inelegant Ragwort. Leaves 
pinnate, with distant linear toothed lobes, the upper sessile, and 
auriculated, the lower petiolated ; corymb spreading, of few flowers ; 
ray entire, ovate, spreading ; fruit downy. 
English Botany, t. 600.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 432—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 8304.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 146. 
Root fibrous, the whole plant smooth, or covered over with a thin 
loose cottony pubescence. Stem erect, about eighteen inches high, 
leafy, branched. Leaves pinnate, about two inches long, the lobes 
distant, linear, more or less deeply toothed or jagged, the lower ones 
petiolated, the upper sessile, and mostly auriculated at the base, and 
embracing the stem. Injlorescence a terminal loose spreading few 
flowered corymb, pedicles with a few awl-shaped bractea. Involucre 
cylindrical, or hemispherical, smooth, linear, with a pale narrow 
membranous margin, the outer ones very small. /Jorets numerous, 
bright yellow, the outer ones forming the ray, with an ovate entire 
spreading limb, the inner tubular, five toothed. Fruit ovate, pale, 
silky. Pappus white, silky, roughish, long. 
Habitat.—Old walls about Oxford and Bideford, Devon. 
Annual; flowering from June to October. 
This is a rare plant with us, and hitherto has only been found in 
the above situations, where it is probable it has been introduced. It 
is not an uncommon plant on the Continent in vineyards, on dry 
banks, and old walls. 
5. S. tenutfo'lius, Jacq. (Fig. 1288.) Hoary Ragwort. Leaves 
pinnatifid, of numerous linear lobes, the margins rolled back, white, 
downy beneath, the lower petiolated, the upper sessile; stem erect, 
loosely cottony, branched above, corymbose; ray oblong, entire, 
spreading; fruit rough. 
English Botany, t. 574.—English Flora, vol. iii. p 433.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i p. 305.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 146. 
foot with long stout fibres. Stem erect, from two to three feet 
high. angular, furrowed, clothed with a loose cottony pubescence, 
simple or branched towards the top. Leaves numerous, nearly 
smooth, or loosely cottony above, beneath clothed with white pu- 
bescence, deeply cut into narrow pinnatifid lobes, which are entire or 
toothed, the margin flat, or rolled back, very various in width, often 
linear, sometimes ovate, the Jower leaves petiolated, the upper sessile, 
and sometimes embracing the stem at the base. Inflorescence ter- 
minal sub-corymbose clusters, its branches with numerous linear 
bractea. Jnvoluecre cylindrical, its scales lanceolate, with a pale 
membranous margin, the outer ones half as long, spreading, linear 
lanceolate. Florets numerous, those of the ray with an oblong 
spreading limb, entire, or three toothed, those of the disk tubular, five 
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