446 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Doronicum. 



scales, in a double row, generally nearly as long as the 

 radiant florets. Cor. compound, radiant ; jlorets of the 

 disk numerous, perfect, tubular, with 5 equal, rather 

 spreading segments ; those of the radius as many as the 

 scales of the calyx, or more, ligulate, linear, spreading, 

 with 3 — 5 terminal, equal teeth. Filam. in the tubular 

 florets only, capillary, very short. Anth. in a cylindrical 

 tube, with 5 notches. Germ, in all the florets fertile, 

 ob.ovate. Style thread-shaped, rather prominent. Stig- 

 mas small, spreading. Seed-vessel none, except the slightly 

 converging, withering calyx. Seed obovate, a little com- 

 pressed, furrowed. Down sessile, capillary, rough, on 

 the seeds of the disk only, which are hairy ; wanting on 

 those of the radius, which are smooth. Recept. naked, 

 pitted, somewhat convex. 

 Large, perennial, tuberous-rooted herbs, rather downy, with 

 upright corymbose stems, broad, heart-shaped or^oblong, 

 mostly toothed leaves, and a few solitary, great, yellow 

 Jlo-joers, earlier than most of this tribe. 



1, D. Pardalianches . Great Leopard's-bane. 



Leaves heart-shaped, toothed ; radical ones stalked ; the 

 rest clasping the stem. 



D. Pardalianches. Linn. Sp. PI. 1247. mild.v. 3. 2113. Light/. 



485. H.Br. 896. Engl. Bot.v.d.t. 630. Hook.Scot.245. Hoplc. 



Glott. 104. Mill. Ic. 85. t. 128. Jacq. Austr. t. 350. 



D. n. 88. Hall. Hist. V. 1.36. 



D. majus officinarum. Ger. Em. 759./. 



D. latifolium. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 16./. 



D. tertii varietas. Lob. Ic. 649./. 



Aconitum Pardalianches minus. Matth.Falgr. v. 2.429. f. Camer. 



Epit. 824./. 



■>■ 

 In mountainous pastures or meadows. 



Gathered in the cold mountains of Northumberland, by Dr. Penny. 

 Gerarde. In several places in the Lowlands of Scotland, as 

 about Hoddam castle, in Annandale, &c., but always near 

 houses. Light/oot. In fields and hedges about Hamilton, 

 scarcely indigenous. Hopkirk. In several other parts of the 

 Lowlands. Hooker. On the banks of the Severn, below Bridg- 

 north. With. In a hedge by the road from Much-Wenlock, 

 Shropshire, to the iron bridge. Rev. S. Dickenson. Near Saling 

 hall, Essex. Mr. M'al/ord. 



Perennial. May. 



Root of several knobs, connected by long fibres, creeping; woolly 

 at the crown. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, hollow, round, obscurely 



