S3 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
, aa far North as the Forth and Clyde, and northward to 
rdeen, bui most probably introduced. 
England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
ck emitting long subterranean white or pink stolons. 
Stem •"> to 5 feet high, very leafy. Lower leaves 3 to 8 inches long 
by I to 2 inches broad, attenuated at the base, but scarcely stalked; 
towards the middle of the stem slightly amplexicaul but 
without distinct auricles, finely serrate, with small cartilaginous 
teeth slightly incurred. Pericline ^ inch long. Anthodes f inch 
broad. Florets bright-yellow. Plant nearly glabrous. 
Broad-leaved Hagwort. 
French, Senegon Sarraxiu. German, SaraceniscJier Baldgreis. 
SPECIES IX.— SENECIO PALUDOSUS. Linn. 
Plate DCCLVIII 
Ketch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXXIV. Fig. 2. 
'. Fl, Cull, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 399. 
llootstock very shortly creeping. Stem erect, arachnoid- 
pubescent, simple, except at the extreme apex, where it is corym- 
ly branched. Leaves sessile, scarcely amplexicaul, strap- 
shaped-elliptical, attenuated at both ends ; lowest ones strap- 
Bhaped-oblanceolate, sub-petiolate ; all very sharply serrate, more 
or less arachnoid-hoary beneath. Corymbs simple and solitary, or 
several combined into a rather irregular compound corymb. 
Anthodes rather few, erect. Pericline cylindric - hemispherical, 
glabrous or arachnoid - pubescent ; outer phyllaries numerous, 
one-third the length of the inner, linear. Ray-florets 10 to 1G. 
Achenes all glabrous. 
l'en ditches. Now very rare and nearly extinct. In "Wicken 
Pen, and three miles below Ely, Cambridgeshire, and in the coun- 
ties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincoln. 
England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Stem I to 6 feel high. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long by -J to f inch 
broad, with the teeth very long and slender, directed towards the 
apex of the Leaf j middle leaves very slightly amplexicaul, without 
distincl auricles. Anthodes ^\ inch' across. * Florets bright-yellow. 
Plant variable in the degree of pubescence on the stem and under 
Bide of the Leaves. Pericline arachnoid at the base. 
< )f this species 1 have seen no British specimens. 
Great Fen Ragwort. 
French, Senegon dw Ufarais. German, Sump/ Baldgreis. 
