89 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



counties, as far North as the Forth and Clyde, and northward to 

 Aherdcen, l)ut most probahly introduced. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Rootstoek emitting long subterranean white or pink stolons. 

 Stem 3 to 5 feet high, very leafy. Lower leaves 3 to 8 inches long 

 hy I to 2 inches broad, attenuated at the base, but scarcely stalked ; 

 those towards the middle of the stem slightly amplexicaul but 

 without distinct auricles, finely serrate, with small cartilaginous 

 teeth slightly incurved. Pericline \ inch long. Anthodes f inch 

 broad. Florets bright-yellow. Plant nearly glabrous. 



Broad-leaved Ragicort. 



French, Senegon Sarrasin. German, Saracenisclmr Baldgreis. 



SPECIES IX.— SENECIO PALUDOSUS. Linn. 

 Plate DCCLVIII 



liekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXXIV. Fig. 2. 

 Biilot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 399. 



llootstock very shortly creeping. Stem erect, arachnoid- 

 pubescent, simple, except at the extreme "apex, where it is coiwm- 

 bosely branched. Leaves sessile, scarcely amplexicaul, strap- 

 shaped-elliptical, attenuated at both ends ; lowest ones strap- 

 shaped-oblanceolate, sub-petiolate ; all very shar2)ly serrate, more 

 or less arachnoid-hoary beneath. Corymbs simple and solitary, or 

 several combined into a rather irregular compound coryml). 

 Anthodes rather few, erect. Pericline cylindric - hemispherical, 

 glabrous or arachnoid - pubescent ; outer phyllaries numerous, 

 one-third the length of the inner, linear. Ray-florets 10 to IG. 

 Achcnes all glabrous. 



Fen ditches. Now very rare and nearly extinct. In "Wicken 

 Fen, and three miles below Ely, Cambridgesliire, and in the coun- 

 ties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincoln. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 4 to 6 feet high. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long by ^ to | inch 

 broad, with the teeth very long and slender, directed towards the 

 apex of the leaf ; middle leaves very slightly amplexicaul, without 

 distinct auricles. Anthodes 1^ inch* across. Florets bright-yellow. 

 Plant variable in the degree of pubescence on the stem and under 

 side of the leaves. Pericline arachnoid at the base. 



Of this species I have seen no British specimens. 



Great Fen Ragicort. 

 French, Senegon des Marais. German, Sumj^f Bahlgreia. 



