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lowermost much divided clasping, outer phyll. scattered few, 
Jr. hairy tliose of the ray glabrous. — E. B. 1130. — Root fleshy. 
St. 2 — 3 feet high, smooth, striate, branched, leafy. Corymb 
with erect branches. Fr. of the ray with deciduous pappus. 
Fl. yellow. Ray sometimes wanting [var. discoulcvfs Koch]. — 
Waste ground. P. VII.— IX. Ragwm-t. E. S. I. 
6. S. aqtuit'icus (Hill) ; /. glabrous, lower I. stalked crtnate or 
den tate obova te or oblong slightly prolonged at thebase undivided 
or S2iblyrate blunt, upper 1. lyrate or pinnately cut, segments ob- 
long or linear, st. round, corymbosely branched, fr. all glabrous. 
— E. 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, seg. subspathulate, and was 
supposed to be S. erraticvs (Bert.) — In marshy places. 
P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
*** Heads with spreading rays. Leaves undivided. 
1. S.pahidosus (L.) ; 1. sessile long lanceolate tapering sharply 
serrate cotUmi/ beneath, st. straight hollow, corymbs terminal, 
ray of 13—16 flowers.—^. B. 650.— St. 4—6 feet high, some- 
what woolly. Fl. yellow ; those of the ray narrow. — Fen 
ditches, very rare. P. V. — VII. E. 
8. S. saracen'icus (L. em., Jacq.) ; I. sessile lanceolate acute 
glabr-ous irregularly serrate especially the uppermost, st. 
straight solid, corymbs terminal, ray of 6 — 7 flowers. — E. B. 
2211. S. salicetoruM Godr. — St. 3 — 5 feet high, smooth. L. 
broad. Corymb many-headed. Fl. yellow. — There may be a. 
second plant here with 1. broadest below their middle veiy 
finely toothed, uppermost nearly entire. Its 1. are much pro- 
longed and rather glaucous. It closely resembles aS". Doria 
.Tacq.— Watery places, local. P. VIII. E. S. I. 
B. Involucre without scales at its base. Heads with a spreading 
ray. Leaves nearly entire. Cineraria L. 
9. S.palus'tris{YLo6k..) ; shaggy, s<. m vch branched und corym- 
bose above,/, broadly lanceolate half-clasjiingAowov 1. sinuate- 
dentate. — E. B. 15i. — St. 3 feet high, thick, hollow, leafy. 
Heads erect. Fl. bright yellow. — Fen ditches, now become 
very scarce. B. VI. VII. E. 
1 The form with lyrate Iowit I. is var. prnnai ifidu.^ G. k O.— H. & J. G. 
