240 SYNGENESIA POLYGAM. SUPERF. Sen^cio. 



Fl. -stalks ten or twelve inches, simple, purple, scaly, rising before 

 the leaves. Florets pale red, all hermaphrodite, in appearance. 

 Ls. on long foot-stalks, g:rowing to two or three feet in diame- 

 ter, downy beneath. Cal. of four series of reddish, spear-shaped 

 scales. 

 Planted near bee-hives, as an early flowering plant, by some 



Swedish economists. The root in the spring resinous, aromatic. 



SENE'CIO.' Groundsel/ or Ragwort. 



* Flowers without rays. 



S. vulgaris. Common G. or SimsonJ Flowers dis- 

 persed, without rays. Leaves wing-cleft, toothed,- 

 segments blunt, smoothish ; clasping at the base. E. 

 B. 747. C. 1. 61. Erigerum. G. E. 278. 



Cultivated, or waste ground, dry banks, tops of walls, very common. 



An. At almost all seasons. 



Plant slightly fleshy. Fl. terminal, somewhat corymbose. Florets 

 all tubular, yellow, hermaphrodite, so that the species belongs 

 strictly to Polyg. eequalis. Seed-down stalkless, rough. Cal.- 

 scales spear-shaped, at the base ; at length spreading, and star- 

 like in appearance. Ls. alternate. 

 A strong infusion of the plant emetic. The bruised leaves a 



suppurative application to boils : the plant is good against worms ; 



the juice may be given to horses for this end. Birds in cages, fed 



with the young buds, and leaves. 



* * Fl. with rays, hecoming rolled back. 



S. viscosus. Stinking G. Rays rolled back. Leaves 

 wing-cleft, clammy. Outer calyx lax, almost as long 

 as the inner. Stem with many spreading branches. 

 E. B. 32. Erigerum tomentosum. G. E. 278. 



Waste ground, chalky, or sandy soil. Sm. * * Near Baldon. Sb. 



An. June. 



Whole plant covered with a clammy, fetid liquor, arresting insects, 



&c., hairy. Stem straggling, not simple, as in Sen. sylvaticus. 



Fl. twice as long as those of sylvaticus. Cal. hairy. Cal.-scales 



approaching at the top. Fl. in loose umbels, of two or three. 

 S. sylvaticus. Mountain G. Rays rolled back. Leaves 



stalkless, wing-cleft, lobed and toothed. Outer calyx 

 short, with bluntish discoloured tips. E. B. 74*8. 

 Bushy, heathy, places, gravelly, or sandy soil. Southleigh Heath, 



Ensham Heath. Sb. 

 An. June. 



' From Senex, an old man, because the seeds are downy, and hoary, like 

 the grey locks of age. Plin. '^ Ang-Hax. 



3 Corruption of the Fr. Sencfon. 



