Doronicum,'] xlyl coMPOSixiE : cortmbifer^ 



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terminal of rather few flowers, bracteas linear-setaceous. E. B. 

 t. 2211. 



Moist meadows and pastures, in several parts of England and Scot- 

 land, but very local, and probably often escaped from gardens. 

 Woods at Bantry. ©. 7, 8. ~ Stem 3—5 feet high : ha!)it of the 

 last; heads o? flowers much smaller, with broader florets of the cir- 

 cumferenccy which are sometimes wanting. 



**•*♦ Heads with a spreading raij. Involucre without scales at the base. 



Leaves nearly entire, 



10. S. paMstris DC- (Marsh F,) ; shaggy, stem much 

 branched fistulose, leaves broadly lanceolate semiamplexicaul, 

 lower ones sinuato-dentate, heads corymbose, achenes glabrous 

 many-ribbed. Cineraria i. ; E. B, t. 151. 



Margins of pools and ditches, rare ; chiefly in Norfolk and Cam- 



bridgeshire. 



11. 6, 7. 



Ligulatc florets about 20, 



11. S. campestris DC. {Field F.) ; woolly, stem simple, root- 

 leaves elliptical narrowed below nearly entire those of the stem 

 (small) lanceolate, flowers umbellate, achenes downy. Cine- 



raria Retz. C. integrifolia With. : E. B, t. 152. 



Chalkv downs in the middle and S. of England and on maritime 

 rocks, Hoyhead. 7|.? ,^ ? 5, 6, — Ligulate florets 9- 

 the achenes not prominent. 



12. Kibsof 



39. DoKONicuM Linn, Leopard's-bane. 



Achenes terete. Pappus pilose, wanting to the florets of the 

 ray. Receptacle naked or nearly so. Involucre with the scales 

 equal, in a double row. Anthers without bristles at the base. 

 Style scarcely longer than the corolla, truncate and ciliated at 

 the extremity of its branches. {Flowers yellow.)^ — Named 

 from lopov^ a gift., and viki]^ victory., because it is said to have 

 been formerly used to destroy wild beasts, whence the En- 

 glish name of Leopard's-bane ; or, some say, from DGronigi, or 

 diirun^i, the Arabic name of the Leopard' s-hane., Latinized by 



ssus 



earlier botanists into doronicum., and enumerated^ by Linn 

 among barbarous names which ought to be rejected. He, 

 however, retained it, perhaps because its sound, if not its sense, 

 is Greek. 



1. D. * Pardalidnches L. {greed L) ; leaves cordate toothed 

 the lowermost on long naked petioles, the intermediate with the 

 petioles dilated into two broad semiamplexicaul ears at the 

 base, the uppermost sessile and amplexicaul. E. B. S. t. 2654. 



Catton, by Norwich; Yorkshire; Mountains of Northumberland. 

 Den of Dupplin and Dalkeith park, &c., Scotland. 7JL, 5—7. 

 ^'tem simple or corymbosely branched, the lateral branches being much 

 longer than the shortly stalked head that terminates the stem, 



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