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Section II.— VERNALES. Beich.fil. 
Annual or sub-perennial. Stem weak or flexuous, lax-corym- 
bosely branched at the apex. Leaves flaccid, pinnatifid or repand. 
Outer phyllaries much shorter than the strapshaped inner ones, or 
absent. Ligulate tlorets of the ray numerous, elongate, flat and 
spreading, at length reflexed. 
SPECIES IV.— SENECIO SQUALIDUS. Linn. 
Plate DCCLIII. 
Stick Ic. El. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXI. Fig. 1. 
S. chrysanthemifolius, Pair. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 345. 
Annual. Stem stiff, tough, flexuous, almost woody at the 
. slightly branched, with the branches ascending. Lower 
leaves narrowed at the base ; upper ones semi-amplexicaul, auri- 
cled ; all flaccid, very deeply, evenly, and rather remotely pinnati- 
partite, with the lobes oblong-strapshaped, entire or toothed on 
the outer side. Corymbs simple, solitary or more rarely two or 
three combined into a compound corymb. Anthodes erect. Peri- 
cline oblong-ovoid, glabrous; outer phyllaries few, one-third the 
length of the inner. Elorets of the ray elongate, broad-spreading. 
Achenes hispid-pubescent on the ribs. Plant glabrous or sub- 
glabrous, not glandular. 
Naturalized on old walls and in waste ground at Bideford, 
Devon ; Oxford ; Allesley church, "Warwickshire. 
[England.] Annual or Biennial. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 8 to 12 inches high, decumbent and very hard at the base, 
rather slender, erect. Lower leaves less divided than the upper ones, 
and narrowed into a winged petiole dilated at the base. Anthodes 
I inch across the ray, few, in a lax terminal corymb, with small 
its on the peduncles beneath them. Florets bright-yellow ; those 
of the ray 8 to 14, 2- or 3-nerved, entire. Achenes cylindrical, 
greyish-brown, with white hairs. Plant glabrous, or with articulate 
hairs, not gland-tipped on the stem and young leaves ; scent resem- 
bling that of mugwort. 
Inelegant Ragvort. 
French, Seneqoa a Feuilles de Leucantheme. 
