60 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Section I.— VULGARES. Reich, fd. 
Annual, herbaceous. Stem weak or flexuous, lax-corymbose] y 
branched at the apex. Leaves flaccid, pinnatifid. Outer phyl- 
laries much shorter than the strapshaped inner ones. Ligulate 
florets of the ray none, or short and revolute. 
SPECIES I.— SEN E CIO VULGARIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCXLIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MCLIX. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2G3. 
Stem weak, juicy, fragile, sub-paniculately branched. Lower 
leaves oblanceolate or obovate, narrowed towards the base ; upper 
ones oblong, semi-amplexicaul, with distinct auricles ; all sinuate- 
pi nnatifid, with the segments sub-equal, toothed. Corymbs 
separate, terminating the stem and branches. Anthodes slightly 
drooping. Pericline conico-cylindrical, glabrous or puberulent ; 
outer phyllaries about one-fourth the length of the inner ones. 
Elorets of the ray none, or short and revolute. Achenes hispid 
on the ribs. Plant glabrous, or hairy with the hairs articulated 
but not gland-tipped. 
Var. a, genuinus. 
Heads discoid. 
Var. 3, radiatus. 
Heads with a ray of short revolute ligulate florets. 
In cultivated and waste ground, &c. Very common, and gone- 
rally distributed. Var. I have seen only in the Channel Islands. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. All the year. 
Stem G to IS inches high, irregularly branched, striated, succu- 
lent towards the apex. Leaves very variable in the depth of inci- 
sion. Corymbs few-flowered, paniculately arranged. Anthodes 
! inch long, at first subsessile, at length long-stalked. Outer phyfl 
lanes tipped with black. Elorets yellow ; the ray, when present, 
very short. Plant sometimes glabrous, sometimes more or less 
thickly clothed with woolly white hairs which are not tipped with 
glands. 
Common Groundsel 
French, Seneqon Comma, n. German, Kreuz-Kmut. 
