COMPOSITE. 



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11. Field Senecio. Senecio campestris, DC. (Fig. 541.) 

 {Cineraria integrifolia, Eng. Bot. t. 152.) 



Rootstock short and thick, or slightly 

 creeping. Stem erect, simple, from a 

 few inches to 1 or 2 feet high. Radical 

 leaves stalked, oblong or ovate, those of 

 the stem longer and narrower, upper 

 ones few and distant, all entire or toothed, 

 with a loose, cottony wool on the under 

 side, as also on the stems, especially in 

 open dry situations. Flower-heads like 

 those of the marsh S., but only few to- 

 gether, in a small terminal corymb or 

 rather umbel, the peduncles starting from 

 nearly the same point. Achenes downy, 

 with scarcely prominent ribs, and a 

 shorter pappus than in the marsh S, 



In meadows and pastures, in most of 

 the mountain-ranges of Europe and Rus- 

 sian Asia to the Arctic regions. In Bri- 

 tain, limited to a few stations on the 

 chalky downs of the central and south- 

 ern counties of England, and to the maritime rocks near Holyhead. 

 Fl. summer. 



Fig. 541. 



XVIII. DORONIC. DORONICUM. 



Herbs, with perennial, often creeping stocks, long-stalked, broad 

 radical leaves, and erect flower-stems, bearing a few undivided, alter- 

 nate leaves, and one, or but few, rather large, yellow, radiating flower- 

 heads. Involucres hemispherical, with linear bracts of equal length. 

 Achenes and florets of Senecio, except that the achenes of the ray have 

 no pappus. 



A small genus, extending over central and southern Europe and 

 western Asia, but chiefly restricted to mountain districts. 



Radical leaves deeply cordate. Stems usually with 3 to 



5 flower-heads 1. Great D. 



Radical leaves narrowed or rounded at the base. Stems 



usually with 1 flower- head .2. Plantain D, 



