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24. (5.) Cineraria Linn. 
1. C. palustris (L.); shaggy, st. much branched and corym- 
bose above, 1 . broadly lanceolate half-clasping , lower 1. sinuate- 
dentate. — E. B. 151. Senecio DC. — St. 3 feet high, thick, hol- 
low, leafy. Heads erect. Florets bright yellow. — Fen ditches, 
now become very scarce. P. VI. VII. E. 
2. C. campestris (Kctz.)-, i\\?i^^,st. simple, root oblong ntaxXy 
entire narrowed below, stem 1. lanceolate, beads corymbose, invo- 
lucre woolly below nearly glabrous in the up])er half, fr. hispid. 
— C. integrifolia Sm., E. B. 152. Senecio DC. — St. 6 — 8 in. 
high, with small leaves. Heads erect, 1 — 6, in a simple corymb. 
Involucre often almost glabrous, pale. Florets yellow. — In very 
wet seasons (Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 88.) and near the sea this plant 
is often thriee as large with numerous larger heads and the lower 
1. dentate, when it is the /3. maritima of authors. — Chalk downs ; 
on maritime roeks near Holyhead. P.? VI. E. 
25. (4.) Senecio Linn. 
* Florets all tubular, or the marginal ones ligulate but revolute. 
1. S. vulgaris (L.); 1. half-elasping pinnatifid : segments di- 
stant oblong obtuse and together with the rachis and aurieles 
aeutely and unequally toothed, lower 1. narrowed into a stalk, 
heads in clustered racemes, outer involucral scales very short ad- 
pressed with black points, ray 0. — E. B. 747- — Smooth or woolly. 
St. 6 — 12 in. high, branching. Heads small ; involucre oblong- 
conical glabrous, florets yellow, fr. with silky hairs. — radiatus 
( Koch) ; with a single row of ligulate minute revolute marginal 
florets. — Common. A. I. — XII. Groundsel. 
2. S. uiscosMS (L.) ; 1. deeply pinnatifid viscid glandular-hairy : 
segments oblong unequally toothed and lobed, heads in an irre- 
gular corymb, involucre viscid outer scales half the length of the 
inner, ray small revolute, /r. glabrous. — E. B. 32. — St. 1 — 2 feet 
high, much branched, spreading, viscid. Heads on long stalks, 
inv. cylindi'ical, fl. yellow. — Waste ground, rare. A. VII. — IX. 
,3. S. sylvaticus (h.) ; 1. deeply pinnatifid doivny, segments ob- 
long unequally toothed, heads corymbose, involucre dorniy outer 
scales very short, ray small revolute, fr. silky. — E. B. 748. — 
St. 1 — 2 feet high, erect, more or less branched, hairy. L. nar- 
rower than in the last. Involucres conical, florets yellow. — 
lividus ; upper 1. distinctly auricled and clasping. E. B. 2515. 
— Dry and gravelly hills. A. VII. — IX. 
** Heads with spreading rays. 
*4. S. squalidus {h.) ; 1. pinnatifd glabrous: segments linear 
or oblong distant toot\\od irregular, heads loosely corymbose, in- 
