Senecio vulgaris. Groundsel. 



SENECIO Linn&i Cen, PL Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. Receptaculum nudum. Pappus fimplex. 



Calyx cylindricus, calyculatus ; fquamis aplce jphacelatis. 



Rati Syn. Herb;e fLore coMposito, semine pappqso non lactescentes, flore discoide. 

 SENECIO vulgaris corollis nudis, foliis pinnato-finuatis amplexicaulibus, floribus fparfis. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. 



p. 630. Sp. PL 1 21 6- PL Suecic. p. 290. 



SENECIO corollis nudis, foliis pinnato-iinuatis amplexicaulibus, floribus fparfis. Halter hijl. ».58. 



SENECIO vulgaris* Scopoli PL Carniol. p. 162. n. 1063. Hud/on PLAngLp. 315. 



SENECIO minor vulgaris. Bauhin Pin. 181. 

 SENECIO vulgaris. Parkin/on 671. 



ERIGERON Gerard, emac. 278. Rail Syn. p. 178. Common Groundfel or Simfon* 



RADIX annua, e plurimis fibrillis albidis conflans. J ROOT annual, confiding of numerous white fibres. 



CAULIS fimplex, eredhis, pedalis, ramofus, faepe pur- | STALK fingle, upright, about a foot high, branched, 



pureus, fubangulofus, in junioribus plantis ver- * often purple, {lightly angular, in the young 



fus apicem fubtomentofus. | plants, towards the top, thinly covered with 



£ down. 



FOLIA obfcure virentia, glabra, amplexicaulia, pinnato- | LEAVES of a deep and dull green colour, fmooth, 



finuata, pinnis acute dentatis. | embracing the ftalk, pinnato-finuated, the pinnae 



t fharply indented. 



PEDUNCULI ftriati, uniflori, primum ere&i, pera&a J PEDUNCLES ftriated, fupporting one flower on each, 



florefcentia penduli, demum eredti. % at firft upright, when the flowering is ovef 



I they become pendulous, and laftly upright. 



CALYX: communis primu'rn cylindraceus, demum co- | CALYX; the common Calyx firft cylindrical and laftly 

 nicus ; Squamis fubulatis, plurimis, in cylin- f conical ; the Squama fubulate, numerous, con- 

 drum fuperne contracts parallelis, contiguis, * trailed above into a Cylinder, parallel, conti- 

 asqualibus, paucioribus bafin imbricatim tegen- ^ guous and equal; thofe at the bafe of the 

 tibus, apicibus omnium nigricantibuSj Jig, 1. * calyx fewer, lying one over another, the tips 



J of all of them blackifh, Jig. r. 



COROLLA Compojita, longitudine calycis ; Corollula her- % COROLLA Compound, the length of the Calyx ; the 



maphroditas, tubulofae, numerofae in difco, in- | Florets hermaphrodite, tubular and numerous 



fundibuliformes ; Umbo reflexo, quinquefido : | in the dilk or middle, funnel-lhaped, the limb 



Radio nullo, Jig. 2, 3. | reflex and divided into five fegments : the Ra- 



I dius wanting, jig. 2, 3. 



STAMINA: Filament a quinque, capillaria, minima; % STAMINA: Filaments five, capillary, and very' mi- 



Anthera cylindracea, tubulofa. | nute : Anthers united into a tube. 



PISTILLUM: Germen ovatum ;. Stylus filiformis, | PISTILLUM : Germen oval; Style filiform the length 



longitudine ftaminum ; Stigmata 'duo ob- % of the Stamina ; Stigmata two, oblong, and 



longa, revoluta. I bent back. 



SEMEN oblongum, ftriatum, fufcum ; Pappus fimplex, % SEED oblong, ftriated and brown ; the Pappus fimple, 



albus, femine triplo fere longior, jig. 4 ; Re- | white, almoft three times the length of the 



ceptaculum nudum* fcabrum. | ' feed, jig. 4; Receptacle naked, and rough. 



The Groundfel is a Plant which is well known to grow exceedingly common in Gardens, cultivated Ground, 

 and on Walls, flowering all the year if the weather be mild. 



Although it is fcarcely ufed at prefent as a medicine, yet according to fome Authors it is not without con- 

 fiderable virtues : thejuice, or decoAion of it taken internally, operates gently by vomit ; and the plant externally 

 applied, is faid to be ufeful in inflamed Breafts, the Scrophula, and other Inflamations. 



Mr. Ray fufpe&s that it might be given with advantage in Worms, as Farriers and Horfe-dealers give the 

 juice of it to Horfes that are troubled with thofe kind of Worms called Bottes, and to which it is prefently 

 fatal. 



Birds of various kinds are fond of the feeds and tops of this plant ; and a great variety of Caterpillars par 

 ticularly thofe of the Phaltzna Jacobetu eat it readily. 



