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t2. 1). plantagm'eum (L. ?) ; /. ovate denticulate, radical on 

 iong,8talks rounded or subeordate produced at the base, stem-l. 

 sessile clasping the lowermost with a winged and auricled stalk. 

 — Crown of the root woolly. St. 2 — 3 feet high. Stem-l. nar- 

 rowed in. their lower half but sessile, uppermost with a long 

 taper point. Heads usually solitary, or, if more, the lateral ones 

 not overtopping the terminal one. Phyll. subulate. Fr. of ray 

 glabrous. FL yellow. — Damp places, rare. P. VI. VII, E. S. 



24. (4.) Sbjtb'oio Linn. Eagw'ort. 



A. Involucre with small scales at its base. 



* Fl. all tubular j W' marginal ones ligiMe hd mostly revohde. 



1. S. vnlydris (L.) ; 1. half-clasping pinnatifid, segments dis- 

 tant oblong blunt and together with the rachis and auricles 

 acutely and unequally toothed, lower 1. narrowed into a stalk, 

 heads in clustered racemes, outer phyll. very short adpressed with 

 black points, ray 0. — Smooth or woolly. St. C — 12 in. high, 

 brauching. Heads small : involucre oblong-conical, glabrous ; 

 fl. yellow ; fr. silky. — Rarely there is a single row of Ugulate 

 minute revolute marginal flowers.— Common. A. I. — SlI. 

 Groundsel. . E. S. I. 



2. S. syha£icus (L.) ; 1. deeply pinnatifid dovsmy, segments 

 oblong imequaUy toothed, heads corymbose, involucre downy, 

 meter phyll. very short glabrotis, ray small revolute, fr. silky. — 

 St. I — 2 feet high, erect, more or less branched, hairy. L. nar- 

 rower than in Sp. 3. Inv. conical; fl; yellow. — S. lividus (Sm.) 

 is a slight var. with the upper 1. more distinctly auricled and 

 clasping. — Dry and gravelly places. A. VII. — IX. E. S. I. 



3. S. visodstcs (L.) ; I. dj^fp^Xj ^mn&ia&A. viscid glandular-haii-y, 

 segments oblong unequally toothed and lobed, heads in an irre- 

 gular corymb, involucre viscid, oiiter phyll. half the length of the 

 inner hairy, ray Small, fr. glabrous. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, much 

 branched, spreading. Heads on long stalks '; inv. cylindrical ; 

 fl. yellow.— Waste ground, rare. A. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 



*• Heads with spreading rays. Leaves pinnatifid. 



\^S. <squal'idus {Jj.} ; I. pinnatifid glabrous, segments linear or 

 obhng. distant toothed irregular, heads loosely , corymbose, in- 

 volucre glabrous, otcter phyll. fews mall, ii. sUky . — <S'. chrysan- 

 themif<jliusY)fO. — St. much branched, leafy, smooth.^ L. sessile, 

 often auricled, deeply and irregularly lobed. Heads few, broad. 

 Outer phyll, veiy small, sometimes very few. Many awlshaped 

 scattered bracts below the heads. Fl. yellow. — AValls. Oxford. 

 Bideford, Devon. Cork. A. VI.— X.] E, I. 



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