Senecio 
vulgaris. Groundsel. 
SENECIO Linncei Gen. Pl. Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. Receptaculum nudum. Pappus fimplex. 
Calyx cylindricus, calyculatus ; fquamis apice fphacelatis. 
Rjiii Syn. Herb.e flore composito, semine papposo non lactescentes, flore discoide. 
SENECIO vulgaris corollis nudis, foliis pinnato-finuatis amplexicaulibus, floribus fparfis. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. 
p. 630. Sp. Pl. 1216. FI. Suecic. p. 290. 
SENECIO corollis nudis, foliis pinnato-finuatis amplexicaulibus, floribus fparfis. Haller hifl. n. 58. 
SENECIO vulgaris. Scopoli FI. Carniol. p. 162. n. 1063. Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 315. 
SENECIO minor vulgaris. Bauhin Pin. 1 8 1. 
SENECIO vulgaris. Parkinfon 671. 
ERIGERON Gerard, emac. 278. Rail Syn. p. 178. Common Groundfel or Simfon. 
RADIX annua, e plurimis fibrillis albidis conflans. 
CAULIS fimplex, eredlus, pedalis, ramofus, fiepe pur- 
pureus, fubangulofus, in junioribus plantis ver- 
fus apicem fubtomentofus. 
FOLIA obfcure virentia, glabra, amplexicaulia, pinnato- 
finuata, pinnis acute dentatis. 
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PEDUNCULI flriati, uniflori, primum eredli, peradta | 
florefcentia penduli, demum eredti. | 
CALYX : communis primum cylindraceus, demum co- | 
nicus ; Squamis fubulatis, plurimis, in cylin- t 
drum fuperne contradlis parallelis, contiguis, | 
aequalibus, paucioribus bafin imbricatim tegen- * 
tibus, apicibus omnium nigricantibus, fg. 1 . | 
COROLLA Compofta , longitudine calycis ; Corollulee her- * 
maphroditae, tubulofie, numerofae in difco, in- | 
fundibuliform.es ; limbo reflexo, quinquefido : | 
Radio nullo, fg. 2, 3. J 
STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, capillaria, minima; £ 
An thera cylindracea, tubulofa. | 
PISTILLUM : Germen ovatum ; Stylus filiformis, £ 
longitudine flaminum; Stigmata duo ob- f 
longa, revoluta. | 
SEMEN oblongum, ftriatum, fufcum ; Pappus fimplex, | 
albus, femine triplo fere longior, fg. 4 ; Re- | 
ceptaculum nudum, fcabrum. ^ 
ROOT annual, confifling of numerous white fibres. 
STALK lingle, upright, about a foot high, branched, 
often purple, flightly angular, in the young 
plants, towards the top, thinly covered with 
down. 
LEAVES of a deep and dull green colour, fmooth, 
embracing the ftalk, pinnato-finuated, the pinna: 
fharply indented. 
PEDUNCLES ftriated, fupporting one flower on each, 
at firft upright, when the flowering is over 
they become pendulous, and laflly upright. 
CALYX ; the common Calyx firft cylindrical and laflly 
conical ; the Squamee fubulate, numerous, con- 
tratfled above into a Cylinder, parallel, conti- 
guous and equal ; thofe at the bafe of the 
calyx fewer, lying one over another, the tips 
of all of them blackifh, fg. 1. 
COROLLA Compound , the length of the Calyx ; the 
Florets hermaphrodite, tubular and numerous 
in the dilk or middle, funnel-lhaped, the limb 
reflex and divided into five fegments : the Ra- 
dius wanting, fig. 2, 3. 
STAMINA: Filaments five, capillary, and very mi- 
nute : Antherje united into a tube. 
PISTILLUM: Germen oval; Style filiform the length 
of the Stamina ; Stigmata two, oblong, and 
bent back. 
SEED oblong, ftriated and brown ; the Pappus fimple, 
white, almoft three times the length of the 
feed, fg. 4 ; Receptacle naked, and rough. 
The Groundfel is a Plant which is well known to grow exceedingly common in Gardens, cultivated Ground, 
and on Walls, flowering all the year if the weather be mild. 
Although it is fcarcely ufed at prefent as a medicine, yet according to fome Authors it is not without con- 
fiderable virtues : thejuice, or decoction of it taken internally, operates gently by vomit ; and the plant externally 
applied, is faid to be ufeful in inflamed Breafts, the Scrophula, and other Inflamations. 
Mr. Ray fufpedts that it might be given with advantage in Worms, as Farriers and Horfe-dealers give the 
juice of it to Horfes that are troubled with thofe kind of Worms called Bottes, and to which it is prefently 
fatal. 
Birds of various kinds are fond of the feeds and tops of this plant ; and a great variety of Caterpillars par- 
ticularly thofe of the Phalcena Jacobece eat it readily. 
