92 ENGLISU BOTANY. 



olus records an instance of a Jog being killed by it ; and there is, he says, " some 

 reason to believe that the mortal career of the celebrated Cunrad Gesuer, the 

 German Pliny, or, as Boerhaave styles liin, that ' Motisirum ErvdiUonis; was prema- 

 turely closed by experimenting with this fatal herb." 



SPECIES II.— DORON I CUM PLANTAGINEUM. Linn. 



PL.4.TE DCCLXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLVI. Fig. 2. 



Eootstock shortly creeping. Stem erect, puberulent below, 

 pubescent, with gland-tipped hairs at the summit, simple, or with 

 a single branch. Radical leaves on long petioles, ovate, gradually 

 attenuated into the petioles ; lowest stem-leaves with winged 

 petioles, slightly dilated, and amplexicaul at the base ; middle 

 stem-leaves panduriform, amplexicaul ; uppermost ones elliptical 

 or lanceolate, sessile, slightly dccurrent ; all acute, repand-dcutate. 

 Anthode commonly solitary. Phyllaries subulate, a little shorter 

 than the ray-florets. Achenes of the ray-florets glabrous, those 

 of the disk pubescent. Clinanth glabrous. 



In open woods, meadows, and by roadsides. Rare, and not 

 native, occurring in several of the English counties. In Scotland 

 more plentiful than D. Pardalianches. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Early Summer. 



This plant bears much resemblance to D. Pardalianches, but is 

 more slender and more glabrous, 1^ to 3 feet high. Stem generally 

 simple and 1-hcadcd ; the anthodes considerably larger, 2 to 2^ 

 inches across ; phyllaries narrower and more hairy, distinctly cili- 

 ated ; the stolons are thicker and shorter, more woolly at each 

 scale ; the leaves with much fewer and shorter hairs, sometimes 

 quite glabrous. 



The original plate, in " English Botany," No. 630, under the 

 name of " D. Pardalianches," represents D. plantagineum with a 

 root-leaf of the true D. Pardalianches added to it. 



Plantain-leaved Leopard' s-bane. 



French, Doronie d, Feuilles de Plantain. 



Tkibe v.— HELIANTHEJi:. 



Leaves generally opposite or verticillate. Anthodos generally 

 hctcrogamous and radiant. Elorets of the disk tubular, perfect, 

 those of the circumference generally female or neuter and ligulatc. 

 Anthers without basal appendages, generally blackish. Branches 



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