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A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).

An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris) one of the most common, and widely distributed weeds on the globe.

A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius). Loudon.

reeping plant, with smooth, succulent stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of Senecio (S. scandens). -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma). -- Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain. -- Ivy owl (Zoöl.), the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson. -- Japanese ivy (Bot.…

A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

he Holy Land. See Illust. under Scallop. -- Saint Jame's wort (Bot.), a kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobæa). -- Saint John's bread. (Bot.) See Carob. -- Saint John's-wort (Bot.), any plant of the genus Hypericum, most species of which have yellow flowers; -- called also John's-wort. -- Saint Leger, the name of a race…

for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. Saracen's consound (Bot.), a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds.

A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobæa).