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SPECIES VI— S E N E C I O JACOBS A. Linn. 
Plate DCCLV. 
Mmch, Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXIV. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gull, et Germ. Exsicc. No. -±0. 
Perennial. llootstock rather fleshy, slightly oblique, not creep- 
in *. Stem still', straight, corymbosely branched towards the apex, 
with the brandies erect, lladical leaves obovate, pinnatipartite or 
Lyrate-pinnatipartite ; lower stem-leaves stalked, upper ones semi- 
am plexicaul, embracing the stem with palmately-cut auricles ; all 
firm, much undulated, glabrous or sub-glabrous, bi-pinnatipartite, 
with the primary segments pinnatipartite, the secondary ones 
toothed. Corymbs combined into a large terminal compound 
Hat -topped dense corymb. Anthodes erect. Pericline cylindrical- 
hemispherical, sub-glabrous ; outer phyllaries few, not one-fourth 
the length of the inner, subulate. Achenes of the circumference 
glabrous, those of the disk hipsid. Plant glabrous or sub-glabrous, 
or more rarely arachnoid-hairy on the stem, midrib of leaves, and 
base of phyllaries. 
In pastures, borders of fields, waste places, &c. Very common, 
and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem solitary or 2 or 3 together, 18 inches to 4 feet high, mucli 
branched towards the tip in large examples, lladical leaves vari- 
able in the relative size of the terminal lobe to the lateral segments, 
which become smaller towards the base of the petiole ; stem-leaves 
always much divided, and undulated somewhat like those of curled 
parsley. Anthodes very numerous, f to 1 inch across the ray. 
Peduncles with bracts. Pericline as broad as long, generally gla- 
brous. Florets bright -yellow, those of the ray rather narrow, 
numerous, mostly 4-nerved, rarely absent. Achenes oblong-cylin- 
drieal, those of the ray destitute of the hairs which are so common in 
this genus, and which are present on those of the disk. Plant gene- 
rally glabrous, dorp-green. 
Mr. J. Waddy finds near Churehtown, co. Wexford, a form with 
the anthodes destitute of ray-florets, and has favoured me with 
recent specimens. It has been also observed by Mr. II. C. AY ^t son 
in Sutherland. ~ -^ , 
Common Ragwort. 
Freuch, Senegon Jacobee. German, Jacobs llnldijreis. 
All who walk along country lanes or roadsides in July and August must <Jften 
seen this cuimnun plant, with its beads of bright golden-yilluvv flowers, and 
