252 COMPOSITJE. [Ci7ieraria. 



erect loosely cottony, all the fruit hairy. S. tenuifolius, Jacq. Fl. 

 Aust. iii. 42, t. 278. Br. Fl. p. 238. 



In woods, on hedgebanks, by roadsides and borders of fields ; a prevailing spe- 

 cies in the island, especially in the chalky parts. FL July — September. Fr. 

 October. If.. 



Root somewhat creeping, abrupt (prsemorsa), with long vertical fibres. Stem erect, 

 subsimple or branched above, naked below, 2 — 4 feet high, roundish, filled with 

 white pith, covered with loose cottony down. Leaves numerous, sessile, alternate, 

 deeply pinnatifid, the segments variously toothed and lobed, dark green and 

 almost glabrous above, more or less pale and hoary beneath, sometimes ovate and 

 deeply incised, but not pinnatifid. Flowers numerous, in a corymbose panicle, 

 blight yellow, paler than those of either S. Jacobaa or S. aquaticus, on rather 

 slender peduncles, furnished with several minute awl-shaped bracts. JRaysVmeav- 

 oblong, spreading, revolute only when beginning to fade, or after having been 

 some time gathered, their extremities with a small notch and an intermediate 

 tooth. Scales of the involucre erect, equal, pointed with darkish tips, outer and 

 lowermost linear-lanceolate, lax, all a little cottony. Achenia angular, deeply 

 furrowed, densely covered with erect whitish hairs. Pappus simple, rough, about 

 as long as the florets of the disk. 



4. S. Jacobma, Jj. Common Ragiv or t. " Eay spreading, leaves 

 lyrnte hipinnatifid, segments divaricated toothed glabrous, stem 

 erect, achenes of the disk hairjr, those of the ray glabrous, invo- 

 lucre hemispherical."— j5r. Fl. p. 238. E. B. t. 1130. 



In moist or dry meadows and pastures, on ditchbanks, waste ground, and by 

 roadsides; very common.* i^?. July — September. 2f. 



5. S. aquaticus, Huds. Marsh Ragwort. " Ray spreading, 

 leaves lyrate serrated glabrous the lowermost obovate and undi- 

 vided, involucre hemispherical, achenes all glabrous."— JSr. Fl. p. 

 238. E. B. t. 1131. 



In wet meadows and pastures, on ditchbanks, sides of rivers, and in other 

 marshy situations ; common, i^/. July — September. Tf.. 



VII. Cineraria, Linn. Fleawort. 



" Pappus pilose. Receptacle naked. Involucre cylindrical, of 

 many equal, erect scales. [Floicers yellow)." — Br. Fl. 



? 1. G. campestris, T\,etz. Field Fie aivort. " Woolly, stem sim- 

 ple, root-leaves elliptical narrowed below nearly entire, those of 

 the stem (small) lanceolate, flowers umbellate, achenes downy." — 

 Br. Fl. p 239. Senecio, BC. G. integrifolia, With. : E. B. t. 

 152. 



On chalky downs and hilly limestone pastures; extremely rare, if ever found at 

 all in the island. Fl. May, June. 11 ? 



Belhan, Isle of Wight! Pulteneij, Bot. Guide. A place quite unknown to me 

 and to every one else of whom I have made inquiry. 



Cin. alpi'na (lampestris), Belhan, pi. I. W., Dr. Pultmey in Hamps. Reposi- 

 tory, i. p. 121 (copied verbatim). 



* The larva of the ragwort moth (Call hnorpha Jacobaa), elegantly marked 

 with external bands of black and yellow, is often to be seen with us feeding on 



the Ic.ivcs of this and other species of Senecio. 



