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volucre glabroiis, outer scales few and small, fr. silky. — T^- Ti. (!0(). 
S. chrvsautlu'inifolius DC. — St. much hraucliuil, leafy, smootli. 
L. sessile, often aurieled, deeply and irregularly lohed. Heads 
few, broad. Outer iuvolueral scales very small and sometimes 
very few. Many awlshaped scattered bracts below the beads. 
Florets vellow. — Walls. Oxford. Bideford, Devon. A. A'l. 
—X. ■ E. 
5. S. erucifolius (L.) ; Z. margins somewhat revolute 
downy beneath the lower ones stalked, ZZnear the lower- 
most smallest entire and elaspingt.be stem, outer involucral scales 
half as long as the inner, fr. all silky. — E. B. 574. S. termifolius 
Sm. — Root creej)iug. St. erect, 2 feet high, angular, furrowed, 
somewhat cottony, simj)le. Lower 1. oblong-ovate deeply pin- 
natifid, the segments often linear downy on both siu'faces but 
l)articularly beneath. Fr. all equally provided with persistent 
])aj)pus. Florets yellow. A state with its 1. divided into very 
narrow segments is S. tenuifoUus Jacq. — Calcareous soils. P. 
VII. VIII. 
(). S. Jacobcea (L.); lower 1. oblong-obovate attenuated below 
lyrate-pinnatifid stalked, stem 1. sessile bipinnatitid : segments 
spreading oblong deeply and irregidarly toothed and cut lower- 
most much divided clasping, outer involucral scales scattered 
few lax/r. hairy those of the ray glabrous. — E. B. 1130. — Hoot 
fleshy. St. 2—^ feet high, smooth, striated, branched, leafy. 
Corymb with erect branches. L. glabrous. Fr. of the ray quite 
glabrous, the paj)])us deciduous. Florets yellow. Ray some- 
times wanting. — Waste ground. P. VII. — IX. Ragwort. 
7. S. aquaticus (Finds.); lower 1. stalked crenate or dentate 
obovate or oblong slightly produced at the base undivided or sub- 
lyrate obtuse, upi)er 1. lyrate or pinnately cut : segments oblong 
or linear, st. round corymbosely branched, /r. all glabrous “sub- 
rauricate.” — E.B. 1131. — St. erect, I — 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. — 
major ; 1. IjTate, terminal lobe truncate or subcordate below, 
segments subsj)athulate, fr. all glabrous and smooth. St. erect, 
with numerous branches. Terminal lobe of the lower 1. remark- 
ably truncate and scarcely deem-rent at the base. S. erraticus 
Bert. ? — In marshy places. P. VII. VIII. 
8. S. paludosus (L.) ; Z. sessile elongate-lanceolate tapering 
sharply serrate cottony beneath, st. straight hollow, corymbs ter- 
minal. — E. B. 650. — St. 4 — 6 feet high, somewhat woolly. Flo- 
rets yellow, of the ray narrow 13 — 16. — Fen ditches, very rare. 
P. V.— VII. E. 
9. S.saraccnicus{L.)-, Z. sessile lanceolate acute ^Zafirows irre- 
