(,_) ENGLISH BOTANY. 
olns records an of a dorr being killed by it ; and there is, he says, "some 
ieve that the mortal career of the celebrated Conrad Gesner, the 
1 in Pliny, or, EU Boerhaave styles him, that ' Monstrum Eruditionis," was prenia- 
turely closed by experimenting with this fatal herb." 
BPECUS 11-DORONICUM PLANTAGINEUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXII. 
. Ic. Fl. Germ, et llelv. Vol XVI. Tab. CMLVI. Fig. 2. 
Rootstock shortly creeping. Stem erect, puberulent below, 
pubescent, with -land-tipped hairs at the summit, simple, or with 
B single branch. Radical leaves on long petioles, ovate, gradually 
attenuated into the petioles ; lowest stem-leaves with winged 
petioles, slightly dilated, and amplexicaul at the base; middle 
stem-leaves panduriform, amplexicaul; uppermost ones elliptical 
or lanceolate, sessile, slightly decurrent ; all acute, repand-dentate. 
Anthode commonly solitary. Phyllaries subulate, a little shorter 
than the ray-florets. Achenes of the ray -florets glabrous, those 
of the disk pubescent. Clinanth glabrous. 
In open woods, meadows, and by roadsides. Rare, and not 
native, occurring in several of the English counties. In Scotland 
more plentiful than D. Pardalianchcs. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Early Summer. 
This plant bears much resemblance to D. Pardalianchcs, but is 
more slender and more glabrous, 1^ to 3 feet high. Stem generally 
simple and 1-headed ; the anthodes considerably larger, 2 to 2^ 
inches across ; phyllaries narrower and more hairy, distinctly cili- 
ated ; the stolons are thicker and shorter, more woolly at each 
Bcale; the leaves with much fewer and shorter hairs, sometimes 
quite glabrous. 
The original plate, in "English Botany," No. 630, under the 
name of " I). Pardalianches," represents 1). plantagineum with a 
root-leaf of the true 1). Pardalianches added to it. 
JP Ian l ahi -lea t'cd Leopard' s-bane. 
French, Doronit << /'<. utiles de Plantain. 
TfiiBB V.— JIELIANTIIEJ;. 
Leaves generally opposite or verticillate. Anthodes generally 
heterogenous and radiant. Florets of the disk tubular, perfect, 
those of the circumference generally female or neuter and Hgulate. 
Anthers without basaJ appendages, generally blackish. Branches 
