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Section 4. SENECIONE^. Heads homogamous or hete- 

 rogamous, discoid or radiant. Anth. without appendages. Pap- 

 pus pilose or setaceous, rarely 0. 



22. (5.) DoRONicxjM Linn. Leopard' s-bane. 



tl. D. Pardalianches (L.); I. cordate denticulate, lowermost 

 I. on long stalls, intermediate with clasping auricles at the base of 

 the stalk, uppermost sessile clasping, root creeping tuberous. — 

 E. B. S. 2654. — St. 2 — 3 feet high, erect, solitary, hollow, hairy. 

 L. hairy, minutely toothed, soft, blunt, the uppermost acute. 

 Lowest petioles not auricled. Heads several, phyll. lanceolate- 

 subulate. Florets yellow. The earlier heads overtopped by the 

 latter ones. Fr. oblong, furrowed, of disk hairy, of ray glabrous. 

 — Damp and hilly woods and pastures, rare. P. V. — VII. 



t2. D. plantagineum (L. ?) ; I. ovate denticulate, radical on 

 long stalks rounded or subcordate produced at the base, stem-l. 

 sessile clasping the lowermost with a winged and auricled stalk. 

 —E. B. 630. (excl. leaf.)— Crown of the root woolly. St. 2—3 

 feet high. Stem-l. narrowed in their lower half but sessile, up- 

 permost with a long taper point. Heads usually sohtary, or, if 

 more, the lateral ones not overtopping the terminal one. Phyll. 

 subulate. Fr. of ray glabrous. Florets yellow. — Damp places, 

 rare. P. VI. VII. E. S. 



23. (4.) Senecio Linn. Ragwort. 



A. Involucre with small scales at its base. 



* Florets all tubular, or the marginal ones ligulate but revolute. 



1. S. vulgaris (L.); 1. half-clasping pinnatifid, segments di- 

 stant oblong obtuse and together with the rachis and auricles 

 acutely and unequally toothed, lower 1. nan'owed into a stalk, 

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

 black points, ray 0. — E. B. 747. — Smooth or woolly. St. 6 — 12 

 in. high, branching. Heads small; involucre oblong-conical, 

 glabrous ; florets yellow ; fr. silky. — ^. radiatus (Koch) ; with a 

 single row of ligulate minute revolute marginal florets. — Com- 

 mon. A. I. — XII. Groundsel. 



2. S. viscosus{h.); I. lieeTplj TpiwaatifiA viscid glandular-hairy , 

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

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

 inner hairy, ray small revolute, /r. glabrous. — E.B. 32. — St. 1 — 2 

 feet high, much branched, spreading. Heads on long stalks ; 

 inv. cylindrical ; fl. yellow. — Waste ground, rare. A. VII. — IX. 



3. S. sylvaticus (L.) ; 1. deeply pinnatifid downy, segments ob- 

 long unequally toothed, heads corymbose, involucre dovmy, outer 



