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not auricled. Heads several, phyll. lanceolate-subulate. Fl. 

 yellow. The earlier heads overtopped by the later ones. Fr. 

 oblong, furrowed, of disk hairy, of ray glabrous. — Damp and 

 hilly woods and pastures, rare. P. V. — VII. E. S. 



t2. D. plantagin'mtm (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. 

 —Sy. E. B. 762.— Crown of the root woolly. St. 2—3 feet 

 high. Stem-L narrowed in their lower half but sessile, upper- 

 most 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. yeUow, — Damp places, rare. 

 P. VL VII. E. S. 



22. (4.) Sene'cio lAnn. Eagwort. 



A. Involucre with small scales at its base. 



* Fl. all tubular, or marginal ones ligulczte hut mostly revolute. 



1. S. vulgaris (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 phyU, very short adpressed 

 with black points, ray O.—JH. B. 747. — Smooth or woolly. 

 Not viscid. St. 6 — 12 in. high, branching. Heads small ; 

 involucre oblong-conical, glabrous ; fl. yellow ; fr. silky. — 

 Rarely there is a single row of ligulate minute revolute mar- 

 ginal flowers. — Common. A. I. — XTT. Groundsel. E. S. I. 



2. S. mjhat'icm (L.) ; 1. deeply pinnatifid downy, segments 

 oblong unequally toothed, heads corymbose, involucre downy, 

 outer phyll. verry short glabroiis, ray small revolute, /r. silky. — 

 E. B. 748. — Slightly viscid. St. 1 — 2 feet high, erect, more or 

 less branched, hairy. L. narrower than in Sp. 3. Inv. conical ; 

 fl. yeUow. — S. limdus (Sm.) is a slight var. with the upper 1. 

 more distinctly auricled and clasping. — Dry and graveUyplaces. 

 A. VH.— IX. E. S. I. 



3. S. viscdsus (L.) ; /. deeply pinnatifid viscid glandular-hairy,^ 

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

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

 inner hairy, ray small, fr. glabrous. — E. B. 32. Very viscid. 

 St. 1 — 2 feet high, much branched spreading. Heads" on long 

 stalks: inv. cylindrical; fl. yellow. — W^ste ground, rare. A. 



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