84 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Section III.— JACOIL£,E. Reich. 
Perennial or biennial. Stem rigid, erect, fastigiato-corymbosely 
branched at the apex. Leaves firm, pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid. 
Outer plivlkiries much shorter than the inner ones, lanceolate- 
acurainate. Ligulate florets of the ray numerous, elongate, flat 
and spreading, at length reilexed, very rarely absent. 
mii li:s v.— SENECIO ERUCIFOLIUS. Linn. 
Plate DCCLIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXVI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 141. 
S. tenuifolius, Jacq. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 574. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 253. 
Perennial. Rootstock somewhat woody, very shortly creeping. 
Stem stiif, straight, sparingly cottony, corymbosely branched at 
the apex, with the branches erect. Radical leaves oblanceolate or 
obovate, crenately lobed ; lower stem-leaves stalked ; upper ones 
aniplexicaul, embracing the stem with palmately-cut auricles ; all 
firm, iiattish, puberulent, pale beneath, more or less deeply pin- 
natifid, with the lobes parallel, oblong or strapshaped, toothed or 
entire. Corymbs mostly combined into an irregular terminal 
flat-topped compound corymb. Anthodes erect. Pericline oblong- 
hemispherical, puberulent, especially at the base; outer phyllaries 
half the length of the inner. Achenes all hispid on the ribs. 
Plant pubescent. 
Roadsides, ditch-banks, and borders of fields. Not uncommon, 
especially on calcareous soils, but not confined to them. Rare in 
Scotland, where it appears only to occur in the county of Berwick. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stems growing in tufts, 18 inches to 4 feet high. Leaves very 
variable in the degree of their incision, the lower ones less deeply 
divided than the upper. Corymbs of the lower branches distinct 
from the main terminal compound corymb. Anthodes f to f inch 
across, <>n peduncles with small bracts resembling the outer phyl- 
laries. Florets bright-yellow, the ligulate ones numerous, mostly 
4-nerved. Achenes oblong-cylindrical, very pale-brown; pappus 
yellow ish-white. Planl varying much in the degree of pubescence, 
which is si Letimes of short, sometimes of elongate curled hairs. 
Hoary Ragwort. 
French, Senecon a Feuillea de Roquette. Genu in, Rcmkenblattriger Baldgreis. 
