SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Senecio. 939 
S. aquat'icus. Leaves toothed, those at the root egg-shaped, of 
the stem wing-cleft; outer segment largest. Huds.: (calyx 
hemispherical. E.) 
(E.Bot. 1131. E.)— J. B. ii. 1057. 3 — Pet. 17. 2 — FI. Dan. 78 i—Clus. ii. 
23. 1—Ger. Em. 280. 3. 
Leaves wing-cleft, with some small wings at the base, and a very large 
one egg-shaped, scolloped, terminal, smooth. Fruit-stalks irregularly 
branching, with numerous awl-shaped scales. Woodw. (Seeds, both of 
disk and radius, smooth. Sm. Flowers larger than in the preceding; 
not so numerous. Rays of the circumference broader. Blossom yellow. 
In dryer stations this plant becomes very slightly woolly. E.) 
Liable to vary much in its foliage. I have some specimens in which the 
leaves are wing-cleft for more than half their length from the base; 
others in which the leaves may be most properly considered as entire, 
with one or two pair of wings on the leaf-stalks, and others again in 
which the upper and lower leaves have no wing-cleft segments; hence 
I am induced to believe that this does not specifically differ from 
S. Jacobcea, the latter growing in dry uplands, the former in moist 
meadows. Hudson's S. aquaticus certainly corresponds with the Linn. 
Sp. char, of the Jacobcea , which can hardly be said of the upland plant 
which we call Jacobcea. 
Water Groundsel. (Marsh Ragwort. (S. aquaticus. Huds. Willd. 
Sm. Hook. Grev. S. Jacobcea y. Lightf. Welsh: Penfelen y gors. E.) 
Hitches and watery places, and moist meadows and pastures. 
P. July—Aug. 
(4) Strap-shaped jloreis in the circumference expanding ; leaves undi¬ 
vided. 
S. paluxk/sus. (Rays toothed: flowers corymbose: Sm. E.) leaves 
sword-shaped, acutely serrated, somewhat cottony beneath : stem 
quite straight, (hollow. E.) 
(E.Bot. 650. E.) — FI. Dan. 385 — Ger. 347 — Ger. Em. 483. 6 — Pel. 16. 8 
— Thai . 3 — J. B. ii. 1063. 3 —Park. 1232—//. Ox. vii. 19. 22. 
Stem two to five feet high, simple. Leaves very long, strap or spear- 
shaped, losing their woolliness by age. Umbel flat-topped. Flowers 
two inches broad. Calyx conglutinated. Hall. Blossom yellow, (large. 
Stem clothed with a loose cottony substance. Seeds hairy. Receptacle 
slightly so. E.) 
Bird’s-tongue Groundsel. (Great Fen Ragwort. E.) Marshy 
ditches and their banks in the Isle of Ely, near Stretham Ferry, but not 
common. (In Lakenheath fen, near Wangford, Suffolk. Rev. Mr. Hem- 
sted. On the banks of ditches near Braford water, half a mile from 
Lincoln. Rev. Mr. Woolaston. FI. Brit. E.) P. (July. E.)—Aug. 
S. saracen'icus. (Rays nearly entire: Sm. E.) flowers in a corymb : 
leaves spear-shaped, serrated, almost smooth: (stem solid. E.) 
Jacq.Austr. 186— Kniph. 4— (E.Bot. 2211. E.)— Ger. 350— Fuchs. 728— 
J. B. ii. 1063. 2— Trag. 487— Lonic. i. 241. 3— Dod . 141. 1— Lob. Obs. 
159. 3, and Ic. i, 299. 2— Gsr. Em. 429. 
