COMPOSITE. 



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The geographical area and stations 

 are about the same as those of the Mag- 

 wort S. It is rather more common in 

 central and southern Europe, but rather 

 less so in Britain, and in the north ge- 

 nerally. Fl. summer and autumn. 



Fig. 537. 



8. Ten Senecio. Senecio paludosus, Linn. (Fig. 538.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 650.) 



Stem erect, 2 to 5 or 6 feet high, 

 scarcely branched. Leaves numerous, 

 narrow-lanceolate, sharply toothed, more 

 or less cottony on the under side. Flower- 

 heads rather large, not very numerous, 

 in a loose terminal corymb. Involucres 

 almost hemispherical, the outer bracts 

 few, short, and subulate. Florets of the 

 ray from 12 to 16, yellow, linear and 

 spreading. 



In swamps and fens, in temperate 

 Europe, extending northward to south- 

 ern Sweden, but usually very local. In 

 Britain, restricted to the fenland tracts 

 in the eastern counties of England. FL 



Fig. 538. 



