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‘SENECIO «speciosus. 
‘Red-flowered groundsel.. 
1°. SYNGENESIA -POLYGAMIA| SUPERFLUA, (ff 
'SENECIO. © (Reéceptstudum. Sem: papposum.) «\F lores flosculosi, 
aut radiati, ligulis aut: flosculis marginalibus»foemineis., » Cal. simplex, 
quasi monophyllus, erectus conicus, basi calyculatus:s. cinctus squamulis 
apice sphacelatis aut nigrescentibus, maturatione reflexus... Pappus -p\- 
_losus. Suffrutices aut spits herbe; folia integra aut pinnatifida ; 
ligule quorumdam rubentes,  quorumdam brevissime | feré | flosculose.. 
Jussieu. gen. 181. “ depts soni ofa mi 
oS 
«. Div. Floribus radiatis:. radio patente. ,Foliis pinnatifidis. -; 
S.. speciosus, , corollis .radiantibus, _caule, subsimplici, nudiusculo,, foliis 
radicalibus petiolatis oblongis sinuato-pubescentibus. Brown.tn Hort 
Kew. ed. 2. 5. 43. fee 2 
Senecio speciosus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1991. et 
Senecio Pseudo-China. Andrews’s reposit. 291; (nec aliorum.) 
Herba perennis, graveolens, pilis asperiusculis glanduliferis tecta ; radix 
Jfibrosa; caulis tereti-striatus, nunc infra uniramosus, supra subaphyllus 
folia semiamplexicaulia, inferné caulina, longitudine 3-5-unciali, latitudine 
vic unguam unciali, elongato-lyrata, inequalitér obtuséque sinuato-excisa, 
acuté dentata, basi subauriculata & utringue deflexa, pubescentia a prono 
se@pe purpurascente ; unum aut et alterum in summo caule, sagittato-lanceo- 
latum. Flores pauci (3-42), odori, pro genere magni, saturate purpuret, 
corymboso-terminales ; pedunculi bractea appressa ad basin. Cal. semuncialis, 
cyathoidi-cylindricus, virens, squamulis paucis lineari-subulatis inequalibus 
apice purpureis imbricatus, Radius sesguiunciam transversus 3 flosc. plures, 
Palate dents diametro disci duplo ». magis longiores, ligula plane inearie 
oblongd, 5-nervi, obtust 5 apice levissimé tridentata ; tubus haud muliim - 
brevior, filiformis, germine 3-plo longior: stylus parim exsertus; stig. 2, 
linearia, replicata. Discus hermaphr., numerosus 3 flosc. infundibuliformes 
tubus gracilis, faux brevior campanulata, limbus stellatus, acutus, pure 
pureus ; anth. atropurpurea, pro maxima sud parte exserta: stigmata pur- 
purea, filiformia, ad usque inter fissuras anthere reflexa, apice (sub lente ) 
orbiculato-pubescentia. Germen in flosculo utroque simillimum, gracilius 
tereti-striatum ; pappus simplex, pilosus, longitudine tubi florum. Recept. 
planum nudum. : 
An ornamental species of a genus where few such are to 
be expected. The foliage has a rank weed-like smell, not 
unlike that of the common Dead-nettle; the bloom how- 
ever, which is produced about May or June, is rather fra- 
grant. The stem rises from a foot to a foot and a half — 
high; the leaves have sometimes the appearance of being 
radical, but when the stem is fully grown out they will be 
