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Perennial herbs, with fleshy rhizomes with tuberous enlarge- 
ments. Stem-leaves alternate, mostly amplexicaul. Anthodcs 
Large, solitary or corymbose. Elorcts yellow. 
The name of this genus of plants appears to have heen derived from Doronigi, an 
Arabian name meaning excellent, surpassing ; or, as some imagine, from Bapov (doron), 
a gift, and nuij (nikc), victory, from its power of destroying. 
SPECIES I.— DO RONI CUM PARD ALI ANCHES. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXI. 
Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLV. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. GalL et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2279. 
Rootstock extensively creeping. Stem erect, rather thinly 
woolly, corymbosely branched at the apex. Radical leaves on 
long stalks, roundish-ovate, deeply cordate ; lowest stem-leaves 
stalked, with the petiole much dilated, and amplexicaul at the 
base ; middle stem-leaves panduriform, amplexicaul ; uppermost 
ones ovate, amplexicaul ; all repand-dentate, finely pubescent. An- 
thodcs generally several. Phyllaries triangular-subulate, a little 
shorter than the ray-florets. Achenes of the ray-florets glabrous 
or nearly so, those of the disk pubescent. Clinanth pubescent. 
In open woods, meadows, and by the sides of streams. Rare, 
and not native, though occurring in many of the counties both of 
Scotland and England. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock emitting numerous thick brittle stolons, which be- 
come enlarged at the apices, from whence spring tufts of leaves, and 
afterwards flowering-stems 1 to 3 feet high, clothed with rather stiff 
jointed spreading hairs. Radical leaves 3 to 5 inches broad, and a 
little longer, on petioles exceeding the lamina; lowest stem-leaves 
similar ; the succeeding ones smaller, less cordate, with shorter 
petioles much dilated at the base ; leaves in the middle of the 
stem oblong, constricted above the much-dilated base, and then 
enlarged ; uppermost leaves not constricted, acute. An th odes 1^ inch 
across. Pericline saucer-shaped ; phyllaries with gland-tipped hairs. 
Florets bright-yellow. Achenes nearly black, ribbed, those of the 
disk hirsute, with long white pappus, those of the ray glabrous, 
without pappus. Clinanth finely downy. Plant green, rather soft. 
Great Leopard? s-bane. 
French, Doronie a Feuilles en Cceur. German, Gemeine Gemsiwcrz. 
This plant is an old inhabitant of English gardens, and is now considered to he 
naturalized. It possesses powerful effects; and Dr. Withering tells us thai Matthi- 
