SYNGENESIA. SUPERELUA. Senecio* 937 
(S. liv^idus. Leaves clasping the stem, spear-shaped, pinnatifid and 
toothed: scales of the calyx short, with acute points, not 
discoloured. 
E. Bot. 2515. 
Most resembling S. sylvaticus , hut the essential marks of distinction are the 
dilated base of the leaves, which embraces the stem, and the taper- 
pointed scales at the base of the calyx, which are not blackened and 
abrupt at the tip, as in every other species. The depth of the segments 
of the leaves is liable to variation. E. Bot. 
Green-scaled Groundsel. On some enclosed moor land at Sneaton, near 
Whitby. Mr. Middleton. In the woods of Blaize Castle, near Bristol. 
On hills between Norwich and Thorpe. Sir J. E. Smith. On the hill of 
Tenhaven, Angus-shire. Mr. G. Don. Hook. Scot. About Newcastle a 
common weed. Mr. Winch: who is inclined to consider it “ merely a 
vigorous plant of S. sylvaticus.” E.) 
(3) Strap-shaped jlorets in the circumference expanding; leaveswing- 
cleft. 
(S. squa'lidus. Radius spreading, longer than the calyx: its florets 
elliptical and entire: leaves pinnatifid, their segments distant, 
somewhat linear. 
E. Bot. 600. 
At first sight much like var. S. Jacobcea. Stems upright, branched, some¬ 
what hairy. Leaves embracing the stem, nearly smooth, flat, rather fleshy, 
often purplish beneath. Flowers solitary, at the end of terminal, strag¬ 
gling, bracteated corymbose stalks. Calyx smooth, almost hemispherical, 
its outer scales few and small. Inner florets very numerous. Those of 
the radius broad, spreading, elliptical, entire, of a bright golden yellow, 
at length reflexed. The plant smells like Tansy or Mugwort. 
Inelegant Ragwort. On almost every wall in and about Oxford : 
whence we have been favoured with specimens by Dawson Turner,Esq.;— 
but a doubtful aboriginal. A. June—‘-Oct. E.) 
S. TENUiFO f Lius. Leaves winged: segments strap-shaped: lower- 
leaves on long leaf-stalks: flowers forming a corymb: stem 
upright. Jacq. 
Jacq. Austr. 278 —( E. Bot. 574. E.) 
Stem unbranched, one to three feet high, scored with ridges, firm, thick as 
a quill, entirely covered by leaves, reddish, but clothed with cobweb-like 
cotton. Calyx green, not dead at the ends. Leaves either smooth on 
both sides, or clothed underneath with a cob-web-like cotton. Lower- 
leaves on long leaf-stalks ; upper-leaves nearly sessile and upright. Seg¬ 
ments strap-shaped, pointed; mid-rib underneath prominent, long, dis¬ 
tant, very entire, rarely toothed; edges rolled back. Jacq. ( Blossom 
deep yellow. Seeds hairy. E.) 
The figure of Jacquin is a very exact representation of it as it generally 
appears in the north of England. It but seldom occurs with us in the 
state represented in FI. Lond. and seems then to be a variety occasioned 
by a damper and more shady situation. Mr. Wood. 
Var. 2. Plant but little cottony; lower leaves sessile; segments broader. 
