254 xlyi. composite: cortmbifer^:. [ Doronicum . 
woolly, corymbs terminal spreading:, bracteas subulate. E. B. 
t. 650. 
Very rare ; perhaps now extinct. Ditches and fens in the east of 
England; Suffolk, Lincolnshire, and Cambridgeshire. If-. 6,7. — 
Stem 5 — 6 feet high. Leaves and heads of flowers large, the latter 
of many linear toothed rays. 
9. S. Saracenicus L. (broad-leaved G.) ; ray spreading its 
ligules nearly entire, leaves lanceolate sessile minutely and 
irregularly serrate glabrous, stem erect solid glabrous, corvmbs 
terminal of rather few flowers, bracteas linear-setaceous. E. B. 
t. 2211. 
Moist meadows and pastures, in several parts of England and Scot- 
land, but very local, and probably often escaped from gardens. 
Woods at Bantry. If.. 7,8. — Stem 3 — 5 feet high: habit of the 
last ; heads of flowers much smaller, with broader florets of the cir- 
cumference, which are sometimes wanting. 
**** Heads with a spreading ray. Involucre without scales at the base. 
Leaves nearly entire. 
10. S. palustris DC. (Marsh F.) ; shaggy, stem much 
branched fistulose, leaves broadly lanceolate semiamplexicaul, 
lower ones sinuato-dentate, heads corymbose, achenes glabrous 
many-x-ibbed. Cineraria L. : E. B. t. 151. 
Margins of pools and ditches, rare ; chiefly in Norfolk and Cam- 
bridgeshire. If.. 6, 7. — Ligulate florets about 20. 
11. S. campestris DC. (Field F .) ; woolly, stem simple, root- 
leaves elliptical narrowed below nearly entii-e those of the stem 
(small) lanceolate, flowers umbellate, achenes downy. Cine- 
raria Betz. C. integrifolia With. : E. B. t. 152. 
Chalk y downs in the middle and south of England ; and on maritime 
rocks, Holyhead. 7) ? d? 5, 6. — Ligulate florets 9 — 12. Ribs of 
the achenes not prominent, j 
39. Doronicum Linn. Leopai-d’s-bane. 
Achenes terete. Pappus pilose, wanting to the florets of the 
ray. Beceptacle naked or nearly so. Involucre with the scales 
equal, in a double row. Anthers without bristles at the base. 
Style scarcely longer than the corolla, truncate and ciliate at 
the extremity of its branches. (Flowers yellow.) — Named 
from coipov, a gift , and viktj, victory ; because it is said to have 
been formerly used to destroy wild beasts, whence the Eng- 
lish name of leopard' s-bane : or, some say, from doronigi, or 
durungi , the Arabic name of the leopard s-bane, Latinized by 
earlier botanists into doronicum, and enumerated by Linnfeus 
among bai-barous names which ought to be rejected. He, 
however, l-etained it, perhaps because its sound, if not its sense, 
is Greek. 
