Senecio eruc^efolius. 
Hoary Ragwort 
SENECIO Lin. Gen. PL Synoenesia Polyoamia Superflua. 
^ptacdatl™' ^" l £m P kx - C«/. cylindricus, calyeulatus: fquamis apice 
RaiiSyn - Gm - 7 ■ HE “k°. EE C0MP0SV0 ' •“** ’ «» LACTESCENTES FLORE 
SENEOO ^ cumffis —us, pi— deufaiis fubhirtis, code ^ Lin. M . 
JACOBuEA altffima, foliis erues artemi&eve fimiEbus et semulis. Ruff. Jen. i6 4 „ 
JACOBASA Senecionis folio incano perennis. Rail » n T >— , • i t> 
Goundfel leaves. Huifon. FLAn g L p. 366 Z KagworE with 
CAUUS «ria-|sTALKgr^ta d hi g h lesfy, ri gl d. flightIy 
FOLIA alterna, femiamplexicaulia, fubtus hirfuta, J LEAVES alternate” hZtX’acmv the flab- 1 • 
“ d *?**& &£s: 
r , uui» f uauau». | «11 of them pinnated, or rather pinnat'i' 1 tl" 
fi, oi-the 
J I flowers of the common Ragwort, growing in 
CALYX communis fub-eylindraceus fnlcatus, fquamis | C ALYX common' Wall the florets, fomewbat cvlindri 
miszi^b i ld rr^Si 
ba&;>?r PaU “ lmeanbUS adprCffiS ad **">»' not’ tingedZi*^ 
* /6 ' * I fur mined with a few linear feales at the bafe, 
COROLLA compofita, radiata, Ebjcnli feminei in radio|COROLLA compomiifancl 1 ' “radiate” 'Female flown in 
tredecim circiter, patentes, oblongi, obfoletel the circumfererce nbont -Kirt-p». ' " \ * 
tndentatt, fi s . a. Hermaphroditi numerofl in ? leading oblong, fi fi X “ L"i,ed“ft I' 
dtfco, limbo qnmqu.fi do, fuberefto, fi g . 3. | krmaplroiin fi%,r, it/tbe “nter ttefou" 
I the limb divided into five fegments and nearly 
STAMINA: Filamenta quinque capillaria. An- I STAMINA P " S fi,Zrapfl'iaw Filaments. Anther* 
SFMFN 5 “ ytoi-umcoalitK.^.j. J united, and forming a cylinder fir , 
SEMEN oblongum, htfp.dulum, pappo feflil,, fimplici | SEED oblong, a little hilpid, furmlhed ' with feffle 
uuuuaum, jig. o. % limple down, Jig. 6. 
We have no doubt but the plant here figured is the Jacob, ea Senecioni, folio incano perenni, of R„f, Swtfi, cd 
Uo I77 -J~^r ka >^ and more grouudlel-like leaf, than the common Ragwort 7 Iti 1,4- - .... \ 
fince both' S’ ” Se ," h 7S’ opocrallY the latter»; and fo far the defeription diferiminate! ; but why pZfi » 
fince both the apat,cus and Jacobxa, with which it has the greateft affinity, are conlidered as u '. 
believe alio, that our plant is the Jacolaa ahijjma , folii, Eruca- ArtomiJuevefmUibu, et anuli, of Rtlpk,', p"j„, , / 
C?‘ W, And ** th| s delcriptive name appears among thofe ivliieh L.nnieus applies to his ErdcafJ,,. 'we 
confidet ourfelves warranted m adoptmg h.s name of Erucatjofiu,. Baron Haller, who often, r makes freeies of 
varteties, than varieties of fpecies, in the prelent illftance confiders this plant as a variety only of the / , 
Profelfor Jacquin, mhisFfa^», gives a figure and defeription of a Senecio, wZh te calls 
>“r wV rj d “ hls %nre differs in feme refpecl from our plant, though we flroiwly f u f pe a 
it to be the fame, we dare not eonfider it as fuch. b ° ^ L1 ™ 
T ^ e6e . neao f r ' Uca foliu{b though, not fo common as. the Jacobin, is not unfrequent in the neighbourhood of 
London m certain fituations, particularly m the environs ot woods, under hedges, among bullies &c nu! no 
xvhere more abundant than about the Oak of Honour Wood, near Peckham. The Jacob** on the con Arv 
delights to grow in open hilly paftures, church-yards, by road Hides every where : nor do thric plants differ Ids in 
their ulual penod of flowering; the Eruceejolius flowering chiefly in Auguft, a month later than the other. 
* , Th ’ S h ° a Tf S , !S m ° ft obfer ^ ble wh « tbc Plant is young, or when it grows in a woody and hilly fituation, which it chiefly affers. When it a 
tound in a moift loil, or cultivated in a g irden, it lofes this character, in cojnmoa with many other plants ol the lame ciajs. 
