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Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 

 Ascends to 350 yards, in East Highlands. 

 Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 43. 

 Native. Inundatal, &c. Having frequently met with 

 / /i^ " l^'^i^g specimens which I hesitated whether to name S. 

 ^ aquaticus or S. Jacobaea, - there has alwaya remain e d - o a-my- 

 ■ . m ind .a sort - of lingering doubt resp e cting the real diotinc t . 

 noc o of the two c pccics so dcsiguatcd r By some other bo- 

 tanists, however, our S. aquaticus has been referred to, or 

 connected with, quite a diflferent species from S. Jacobaea ; 

 namely, S. erraticus, to which consequently 1 devote a few 

 lines separately. 



Jec /^ ^^/ -tC // Senecio erraticus, Bert. 



Area [5, &c.] 



Incognit. This species was first, I believe, classed 

 among British plants in Babington's ' Primitiae Florae Sar- 

 nicae ; ' where the Author of the work states, truly enough, 

 that it differs from the S. aquaticus, of Hudson and Smith, 

 in several particulars; and adds, I fear not truly, that "it 

 is found in several parts of England." In the Catalogue 

 published for the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, under 

 the auspices of Mr. Babington, it is still kept in the British 

 list, and marked as being " rather rare " in the vicinity of 

 Edinburgh ; but is placed as a variety of S. aquaticus, in- 

 stead of a distinct species. In the Flora of Shropshire, 

 the S. erraticus is given as the Salopian species, and S. 

 aquaticus altogether omitted. In the Manual of British 

 Botany, however, the name ">S'. erraticus, Bert." is dubi- 

 ously referred to as a synonym for a large i^^ major'") 

 variety of S. aquaticus. I scarce know how to understand 

 all this. I am familiar with S. erraticus from having seen 



