194 45. COMPOSITE. 



* * Heads with spreading rays. Leaves pinnatifid. 



\_*8. squal'idus (L.) ; I. pinnatifid glabrous, segments linear or 

 oblong distant toothed irregvlar, heads loosely corymbose, in- 

 volucre glabrous, outer phyll. few small, fr. silky. — JE. B. 600. 

 S. chrysanthemifolitis DO. — St. mucb brancbed, leafy, smooth. 

 L. sessile, often auricled, deeply and irregularly lobed. Heads 

 few, broad. Outer phyll. very small, sometimes very few. 

 Many awlshaped scattered bracts below the heads. Fl. yellow. 



—Walls. Oxford. Bideford, Devon. Cork. A. VI.— SJ 



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4. S, eriwifdlius (L.); I. pinnatifid margins somewhat revolute 

 cottony beneath, lower 1. stalked, segments linear the lowermost 

 smallest entire and clasping the stem, outer phyll. half as long as 

 ■ the inner, ribs of all thefr, silky. — iS. tenuif otitis Sm. HJ. B, 574. 

 — Creeping slightly. St. erect, 2 feet high, angular, furrowed, 

 somewhat cottony, simple. Lower 1. oblong-ovate, deeply pin- 

 natifid, cottony especially beneath ; segments often linear. Fr. 

 each having a persistent pappus. H. yellow. "When the 1. 

 are divided into very narrow segments it is 8. tenuifolius J acq. 

 —Calcareous soils. P. VII. VIH. E. S. I. 



5. 8. Jacohce '« (L.) ; I. glabrous, Imoer I. oblong-ovate attenuate 

 below lyrate-pinnatifid stalked, stem 1. sessile bipinnatifid, seg- 

 ments spreading oblong deeply and irregularly toothed and cut 

 lowermost much divided clasping, outer phyll. scattered few, 

 fr. hairy those of the ray glabrous. — E, B. 1130. — Root fleshy. 

 St. 2 — 3 feet high, smooth, striate, branched, leafy. Corymb 

 with erect branches. Pr. of the ray with deciduous pappus, 

 n. yellow. Ray sometimes wanting. — Waste ground. P. VII. 

 —IX. Ragwort. E. S. I. 



6. 8. aquat'icus (Huds.); /. glabrous, lower I. stalked crenate or 

 dentate obovate or oblong slightly prolonged at the base undivided 

 or sublyrate blunt, upper 1. lyrate or pinnately cut, segments ob- 

 long or linear, St. round corymbosely branched, fr. all glabrous. 

 — jE. B. 1131. — St. erect, 1 — 4 feet high, simple or branched in 

 the upper half, branches ascending. Terminal lobe of the 

 lower 1. rounded below and narrowed into its stalk. Fl. yellow. 

 — A larger much branched form has 1. all lyrate, term, lobe 

 truncate or subcordate below, segm. subspathulate. — In marshy 

 places. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



* * * Heads with spreading rays. Leaves undivided. 



7. 8.palud(Uus(\j.); Z. sessile long lanceolate tapering sAarpity 

 serrate cottony beneath, St. straight hollow, corymbs terminal. — 



