Senecio.'] 



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Woods and thickets. — )8. in mountainous countries. 1^. 7—9. 

 ^Lower leaves broad, stalked. Very variable in its size, and in its 

 more or less compact ivfiorescence. Used as a vulnerary and diu- 

 retic. 



fs. lanceolata L. has been sometimes found naturalised : it 



IS a 



Kagwort. 



Fleawort. 



N. American species.] 



38. Senecio Linn. Groundsel. 



Achenes terete, all of them with a pilose pappus. Eeceptade. 

 naked. Involucre cylindrical, its scales linear, equal, with or 

 without several smaller ones at the base, their tips often brown, 

 Anthers without bristles at the base. ' Style scarcely longer 

 than the corolla, truncate and ciliated at the extremities of its 

 branches. (Flowers, in the British species, yellow, their ray 

 sometimes wanting.) — Named from senex, an old man. (See 

 Erigeron.) 



m 



* Florets of the ray ligulate and rolled hack, or wanting. 



1. S. vulgaris L. (common G.) ; ray revolute or usually 

 wantin.fT, leaves semiamplexicaul pinnatifid toothed, heads in 

 clustered corymbs, involucre conical glabrous, outer scales very 



E. B. t. 747. 



short, achenes silky. 



0. 



1_12. —A 



Birds are fond 



Waste ground, fields and hedges, abundant, 

 span to a foot high. Heads q^ flowers small, yellow, 

 of the buds and young leaves. 



glandular-hairy viscid, scales of the involucre lax hairy, stem 

 branching diffuse, involucre viscid, outer scales half the length 

 of the inner, achenes glabrous. jB. B. t. 32. 



Waste ground, especially on chalky or gravelly soil, in many places. 

 0. 7, 8. — Ste7ns 1—2 feet high, much branched and spreadmg. 

 Remarkable for its viscid'hairs and fetid smell. 



3. S. sylvdticus L. {Mountain G.) ; ray revolute sometimes 

 wanting, leaves sessile pinnatifid lobed and toothed often auricled 

 at the base, involucre doAvny, outer scales very short glabroi^, 

 stem erect straight, heads corymbose, achenes silky. J^. B. 

 t. 748.— ,3. leaves distinctly auricled and amplexicaul at the base. 

 S. livldus L. ? : E. B. t. 2515. 



astures, . 0. 7 — 9. 



eable smell, but not so 

 powerful as that of S. viscosics. The 5*. Uvidus of Linn, is a Spanish 

 species, and unknown to us ; but whatever it be, we fear the plant 

 of E. Bof. cannot be considered specifically distinct from the present, 



M 4 



Dry 



Stem 



r upland soils, hanks, and gravelly p 

 1^—2 ft. high. Plant with a disagre 



