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COMPOSIT/E 



1. S. vulgaris (Common Groundsel).- — Leaves half-amplexicaul, 

 citeply pinnatifid, toothed, not stick}' ; Iieads few, drooping ; 

 outer bracts very slnort, with black pointp ; ray absent. — A common 

 weed in cultivated ground ; a favourite^ food of many small birds. 

 — 1<'1. all the year round. Annual. 



2. S. svlvuliciis (Mountain (iroundsel.) — Distinguished from 

 the last by its larger size, it being i — 2- feet high and branched ; 

 by being foetid and sliglitly stick) ; by its more copiously cut, 





'^RN'f^xio \-iilgAri^ iComnioii Cyouniisc!)- 



pinnatifid, often hoary leaves, with narrow, toothed lobes ; and 

 by its many conical rather than cylindrical heads of dull )-cllo\v 

 flowers, which are in a cor\'nib and sgmetimes have a few small 

 rolled back ray-florels. — Dry, gravelly places; common. — Fl. 

 July — September. Annual. 



•;. .S'. viscasns (\uscid Groundsel). — Differing from the pre- 

 ceding in being more viscid, with glandular hairs, and in having 

 fewer lieads with outer hraets half as loiig as the inner ones. — Dry 

 waste places ; local. — id. July — September. Annual. 



