


288 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 
The difference between the staminate and pistillate blossoms, 
which grow on separate plants and usually near together, is 
that the staminate ones are more highly coloured and appear 
somewhat dotted. ‘The pistillate ones are smooth and downy. 
A, neodioica, smaller cat’s-foot, is often found growing side by 
side with the above species. It is a woolly plant and bears 
many leaves, 
GOLDEN RAGWORT. SQUAW-WEED. 
Senécto atireus. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. - Yellow. Scentless. General, ‘ May, June. 
Flower-heads: small; growing in umbel-like, leafless clusters and composed 
of both ray and disk flowers. Leaves: alternate; the lower ones mostly heart- 
shaped, with long petioles, upper leaves lanceolate ; deeply cut; sessile as they 
ascend the stem. Svem-: erect; simple; smooth; cottony when young. The 
pappus of silky white down. 
The ragwort, which is one of our native weeds, illuminates 
our meadows with the same tints of golden yellow that we 
sometimes trace in the amber light froma sunset. It is also 
sadly true that it is responsible for an immense amount of hay 
fever. J 
The generic name senecio is from senex, an old man, and 
refers to the silky, white hairs of the pappus. Although the 
plant is in general appearance somewhat like an aster, the 
leaves are quite individual and very variable in the different 
species. 
TICK-SEED. (Plate CXLVIII) 
Coredpsis lanceolata. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. Yellow. Scentless. Mostly south and west. May-August. 
Flower-heads : few, or solitary on long slender peduncles; ray-flowers, six 
to ten, toothed at the apex; disk-flowers, perfect. /#volucre: two inches 
broad, depressed, with lanceolate bracts. Leaves: lanceolate ; entire ; almost 
sessile. Stem: high; slender; glabrous. 
So brilliant and effective is this flower that it has been ex- 
tensively cultivated in gardens. The involucre is responsible 
for its appearing somewhat deceptive to the non-botanist. It 
