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8 one of the most troublesome weeds in our gardens, on account of its little 
feathery fruits, which blow about and vegetate wherever they fall. It is, however, so 
: iff a salad with our little cage-birds, that we never spo it without thinking of 
tlieii ] leasant songs, and are perhaps tempted to be indulgent to it accordingly. It 
should, however, be carefully weeded from every well-kept garden. Infused in wat< r, 
dd to make a pleasant wash for the skin, from its property of softening the water. 
The bruised leaves are affirmed to be a good application to boils. A poultice of the 
leaves applied to the pit of the stomach is said to cause vomiting, and an infusion taken 
internally produces the same effect. 
SPECIES II.— S ENECIO SYLVATICUS. Linn. 
Plates DCCL. DCCL1. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLX. Figs. 2, 3. 
'. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 578. 
Stem rather weak and fragile, corymbosely branched, with the 
branches ascending. Lower leaves oblanceolote or obovate, nar- 
rowed towards the base ; upper ones oblong, sessile, or semi- 
amplexicaul ; all deeply and interruptedly sinuate -pinnatifid, 
with the segments unequal and the largest ones toothed or cut. 
Corymbs combined in a large irregular terminal flat-topped com- 
pound corymb. Anthodes erect. Pericline cylindrico - conical, 
glandular-puberulent ; outer phyllaries le s than one-fourth the 
length of the inner. Florets of the ray very short, revolute. 
Achenes pubescent on the ribs. Plant puberulent, or pubescent 
with gland-tipped hairs. 
On banks and dry pastures, and heaths, waste places, and open 
woods. Rather common, and generally distributed. 
Var. a, genuinus, 
Plate DCCL. 
lvaticus, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 748. 
Upper leaves not auriculate. 
Var. 3, auricula t us. W. Meyer. 
Plate DCCLI. 
1 lividu-, Sin. Eng. Bot. No. 251.5 (nou Linn.). 
Upper leaves semi-amplexicaul, with distinct auricles. 
Englandj Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Very like the common groundsel, but yellower green, visci 
lanilular and odorous ; the stem tougher and less juicy ; the 
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