COMPOSITwE. 91 



Perennial herbs, witli flcsliy rhizomes with tuberous enlarge- 

 ments. Stem - leaves alternate, mostly amplcxicaul. Anthodcs 

 large, solitary or corymbose. Elorets yellow. 



The name of this genus of plants appears to have been derived from Doronigi, an 

 Arabian name meaning excellent, surpassing ; or, as some imagine, from cwpor (doron) 

 a gift, and >ii,tj (niki), victory, from its power of destroying. 



SPECIES I.— DORONICUM P ARD ALI ANCHES. Linn. 

 Plate DCCLXI. 



Jiei<:L Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLV. Fig. 2. • 

 Billot, Fl. GalL et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2279. 



Rootstock extensively creeping. Stem erect, rather thinly 

 wooUy, corymbosely branched at the apex. Radical leaves on 

 long stalks, roundish-ovate, deeply cordate ; lowest stem-leaves 

 stalked, with the petiole much dilated, and amplexicaul at the 

 base ; middle stem-leaves panduriform, amplexicaul ; uppermost 

 ones ovate, amplexicaul ; all repand-dentate, finely pubescent. An- 

 thodes generally several. Phyllaries triangular-subulate, a little 

 shorter than the ray-florets. Achenes of the ray-florets glabrous 

 or nearly so, those of the disk pubescent. Clinanth pubescent. 



In open woods, meadows, and by the sides of streams. Rare, 

 and not native, though occurring in many of the counties both of 

 Scotland and England. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock emitting numerous thick brittle stolons, which be- 

 come enlarged at the apices, from whence spring tufts of leaves, and 

 afterwards flowering-stems 1 to 3 feet high, clothed with rather stiff 

 jointed spreading hairs. Radical leaves 3 to 5 inches broad, and a 

 little longer, on petioles exceeding the lamina ; lowest stem-leaves 

 similar ; the succeeding ones smaller, less cordate, with shorter 

 petioles much dilated at the base ; leaves in the middle of the 

 stem oblong, constricted above the much-dilated base, and then 

 enlarged ; uppermost leaves not constricted, acute. Anthodes 1^ inch 

 across. Pericline saucer-shaped ; phyllaries with gland-tipped hairs. 

 Florets bright-yellow. Achenes nearly black, ribbed, those of the 

 disk hirsute, with long white pappus, those of the ray glabrous, 

 without pappus. Clinanth finely downy. Plant green, rather soft. 



Great LeopcwcV s-bane. 



French, Doronie a Feuilles en Cceur. German, Gemeine Gemsimirz. 



This plant is an old inhabitant of English gardens, and is now considered to be 

 Datunilized. It possesses powerful effects ; and Dr. Withering tells us that Matthi- 



