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4 — 8 in. hi^h, quite simple, cottony. Heads 4 — 5, erect, slightly 
stalked. Phyll. white or rose-colour. — /3. A. lujperhorea (D. 
Dou ) ^ 1. cottouT on both sides. E. B. S. 2640. — Mountain heaths, 
r. \I. Vn, Cafs-foot. E. S. I. 
[•2. A. margaritdcea (R. Br.) ; st. erec< branched above corym- 
bose lea^-, /. linear-lanceolate acute cottony below, heads in 
level-topped coiyinbs.— ^. £. 2018.— St. 2— a feet high, cottony. 
L. alternate, slightly cottony above, densely beneath. Inv. white. 
Fl. yellowish. — JSIoist meadows, rare. Quite naturalized by 
rivers in Monm., Glam. and Merionethshires. P. VIII.] E. 
Section 4. SENECIONEjE. Heads various. Anth. with- 
out appendages. Pappus hairlike or wanting. 
22. (5.) DoRONi'cuM Linn. Leopard's-bane. 
fl. D. Parddian'ches (L.) ; I. cordate Aenticvild.iQ, lowermost I. 
on long stalks, interniediafe with claspitiff aitricks at the base of the 
stalk, uppermost sessile clasping. — E. B. S. 2654. — St. 2 — 3 feet 
high, erect, solitary, hollow, hairy. L. haiiy, minutely toothed, 
soft, blimt, the uppennost acute. * Lowest petioles not amicled. 
Heads several, phyll. lanceolate-subiUate. Fl. yellow. The 
earlier heads overtopped by the latter ones. Fr. oblong, fur- 
rowed, of disk hairy, of ray glabrous. — Damp and hilly woods 
and pastures, rare. P. V. — VII. 'E. S. I. 
t2. D. plantagin'cum (L. ?); I. ovate denticulate, radical on 
long stalks rounded or subcordate produced at the base, stem-l. 
sessile clasping the lowermost %vith a winged and am-icled stalk. 
— E. B. 630 (excl. leaf). — Crown of the root woolly. St. 2 — 3 
feet high. Stem-l. narrowed in their lower half but sessile, up- 
permost with a long taper point. Heads usually solitary, or, if 
more, the lateral ones not overtopping the terminal one. Phyll. 
subulate. Fr. of ray glabrous. Fl. yellow. — Damp places, rare. 
P. Yl. VII. E. S. 
23, (4.) Sene'cio Linn. Ragwort. 
A. Involucre with small scales at its base. 
* Flmcei-s all tubular, or marginal ones ligiilate but revolute. 
1. iS vidguris (L.) ; 1. half-clasping pinnatifid, segments di- 
stant oblong blunt and together -^^^th the rachis and auricles 
acutely and unequally toothed, lower 1. narrowed into a stalk, 
heads in clustered racemes, outer phyll. very short adpressed with 
black points, ray O.—E. B. 747.— Smooth or woolly. St. 6—12 
in. high, branching. Heads small; involucre oblong-conical, 
glabrous ; fl. yellow ; fr. silky.— Rarely there is a single row of 
Egulate minute revolute marginal flowers. — Common. A. I. 
XII, Grmmdsel. E. S. I. 
