The 
4. Mountain-Ragwort, 
Facobea montana foliis integris. 
The root is oblong, 
large fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, 
inches high. 
The leaves, contrary to the reft of the fpecies, 
and to the name, are undivided : they are ob- 
long, and of a pale green, and woolly, 
fmall, and hung with 
fmooth, redifh, and ten 
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Sea Ragwort. 
Facobea vulgaris, 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The ftem is hard, woody, and divided into 
many branches. 
The leaves are deeply divided into fegments 
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The flowers ftand at the tops; and they are 
large and yellow. 
Te is frequent in our mountainous counties, 
and flowers in June, 
C. Bauhine calls it %acobea montana lanuginofa 
angupifolia non laciniata; 
The root. of the common ragwort is aftringent 
and vulnetary: it is beft given in decoétion ; 
but it is not much ufed, 
REIGN SPECIES 
and they are of a dutky green on the upper-fide, 
and perfeétly white underneath, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches, 
and are of a bright yellow. 
It is common by the fea-coafts, 
une. 
C. Bauhine calls it Facobea maritima cinerea; 
and flowers in 
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GROUNDSELY, 
SENECTIO. 
JHE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, 
formed of many oblong {feales, 
the difk are fhort and tubular ; and thofe 
not radiated. The feeds are winged with-down. 
Linnzus places this ainong the Sngenefia. 
1, Common Groundéfell, 
Senecio vulgaris. 
The root is formed of many fibres, Joined to 
a fmall head.. ; 
The leaves are long, and irregularly finuated 
at the edges, 
The ftalk is round, tender, thick, redifh, and 
ten inches high. : 
The leaves on this refemble thofe from the 
root, and all are of a pleafant green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops; and they are 
fall and yellow. 
At is too common in cultivated grounds, and 
flowers all fummer. 
CC. Bauhine calls it Senecio minor vulgaris. 
Others, Erigeron, 
An infufion of the leaves operates gently and 
eafily by vomit. : 
The frefh roots {melt ftrongly as foon as taken 
out of the ground, are an immediate cure for the 
headach. This is communicated to me by Ifaac 
Ware, Efq; to whom an accident. firft difco- 
vered it, 
2. Cottony Groundfell. 
Senecio birfutus odoratus. 
The flofcules are of two kinds, 
on thé verge are fomewhat flatted ; 
The root is long, and hung with many fibres. 
ranged in acommon cup. This is thort, and 
Thofe in the centre of 
but the flower is naked; 
The ftalk is two feet high, 
not robuft, nor much branched, 
The leaves are oblong; and they are deeply 
and irregularly divided at the edges: thefe and 
the ftalk ate! of a pale, greyith green; and are 
covered with a loofe cottony matter, 
The flowers are fmall and yellow. 
Tt is common by road-fides, and flowers in 
June. ; 
The leaves have an ill fcent, and are often 
clammy to the touch, 
C. Bauhine calls it Senecio 
Others, Erigeron tomentofum. 
tound, flender; 
incanus pinguis, 
3. Small, broad-leaved Groundéell. 
Senecio minor latiore folio. 
The root is fibrous, 
The ftalks are thick, irregularly branched, and 
ten inches high, 
The leaves are of a deep gieens; and of 4 
flefhy fubftance ; oblong, broad, and flightly fi- 
nuated. 
The flowers are {mall and yellow, ahd edged. 
We have it on barren grounds. It flowers in 
Augutft,' 
C. Bauhine calls it Senecio minor latiore folie five 
montana. 
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