Senecio campestris (Retz.)DC.)
Conservation status: N
First record: How, 1650
On Sir J.E.Smith's two varieties of Cineraria integrifolia, (Eng. Flor., iii, 445): 'on the 8th of last June while searching on the Gogmagog Hills, near this place, for the var.a, which generally grows there in great plenty, I was unable to obtain any specimens, but found the var.b in the greatest plenty, growing in the very same place in which the var.a is commonly found.... I have sent the accompanying specimens, that you may see the great difference in size and appearance of the two varieties; of which var.a was gathered on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket Heath, June 5, 1829, and var.b on the Gogmagog Hills, June 8, 1829. In some specimens of this last there were four or even five stems to one root.'ÊBabington concludes that the two 'are nothing more than varieties of the same plant, caused by the difference in the degree of moisture.' ...CC Babington, 12.2.1830. Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist. (1832), 5:88–89.
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Jacobaea, sive Senecion minimum. Crescit in Agro Cantabrigiensi in parvis collibus non procul Stapleford. How MS.1650–6. Illustrated with a watercolour. Magdalene College, OXF. ['grows in the Cambridgeshire countryside on small hills not far from Stapleford'. Gunther 289.]
Jacobaea montana lanuginosa angustifolia non laciniata Mountain Ragwort. On Gogmagog hills... Ray,1660,80(76); JM.ann.
* Jacobaea angustifolia G. 280. Mountain Ragwort, On Gogmagog hills,... Merrett,1667,66.
Jacobaea montana lanuginosa angustifolia non laciniata Mountain Ragwort. On Gogmagog–hills,... Ray,1670:176.
Jacobaea angustifolia On Gogmagog hills ... [Antrobus] R(ay) H(istoria) 272. Sloane Hb. 151:103. BM.
Jacobaea Pannonica folio non laciniato I gathered it on Gogmagoghills June 28:1722. In flower. Joseph Andrews Hb.6:38,BM.
Jacobaea Pannonaica folio non laciniato ...Mountain Ragwort with an undivided Leaf. On Gogmagog Hills, ...Ray Syn.1690,49; Ray,1696,80; Ray,1724,178.
Jacobaea montana lanuginosa non laciniata. Gogmagog Hills. Ray Index Loc.JM.ann.
Near the end of this Road [Roman] are on the left two tumuli [The Loaves] like those at Bartlow but not so high: on these are to be found... Jacobaea montana... May 22 1729, Dale, Iter Cantab.
At Gogmagog Hills grew Astragalus mont. purpureus in great plenty now in flower – as likewise Jacobaea montana latifolia Clus. II. May 28 1730, Dale, Iter Cantab.
Jacobaea montana, languinosa, angustifolia, non laciniata. Mountain Ragwort, with an undivided leaf. On Gogmagog–Hills, ...Martyn,1732,2:44.
... About Gogmagog Hills I saw the...Jacobaea montana..now in flower ...June 7th 1733, Dale, Iter Cantab.
[Jacobaea montana...] Gogmagog hills. Th.M.ann.Meth.26.
Gog Magog Hills, Joseph Banks, c.1760, BM. [date given by Banks' archivist at BM 16.3.1994.]
[Jacobaea montana...] Gogmagog hills. Th.M.ann.Meth.26.
Othonna integrifolia. Gogmagog hills. Martyn,1763,Herbat.VII.
Cineraria integrifolia Gogmagog hills... Crowe ann.Hudson,1778.370.
Cineraria alpina integrifolia Go(gmagog) H(ills) Fisher ann. Berkenhout,236.
Gogmagog Hills, Mr Woodward, ('Dickson's Dried Plants') n.d., CGE.
Gogmagog Hills, Mr Woodward, n.d., BM. [and sep. spec. with moth attached, 'The moth is Russula L.71. 'not common.']
Cineraria integrifolia C. alpina Mountain Cineraria. Gogmagog Hills. Relhan,1785.
Cineraria integrifolia Gathered by the Rev. Mr. Hemsted on Gogmagog hills and...where, as on many other chalky downs of England, this plant is to be found flowering in May and June. Smith,Eng.Bot. (1794) 3:152.
Gogmagog Hills, Mountain, or Cambridge Ragwort 1802; Illustr. p. 346: James Sowerby sculp., James Bolton del. Relhan,1820.
Cineraria integrifolia Cambridgeshire. n.d., Hort.Sicc.6:WBCH.
Gogmagog Hills, Hb E Foster, n.d., BM.
Gogmagog Hills.... 1823. 1824. 1825 covered the heath. Henslow ann. 2:347.
Gogmagog Hills, W.L.P.G., 2.5.1824, SWN.
Lord Osbournes Park, W.L.P.G., 2.5.1824, SWN.
Gogmagog Hills, JS Henslow, 24.5.1826, CGE.
Gogmagog Hills, JS Henslow, 22.5.1828, CGE.
Gogmagog Hills, CC Babington, 31.5.1829, & 6.6.1829, CGE.
Gogmagog Hills, W.S.G., 8.6.1829, BM.
Gogmagog Hills, W.A.Leighton, 6.1832, CGE.
Gog Magog Hills, J Sharp, 22.5.1833, Huntly Hb.,ABO.
Cineraria integrifolia Near the clump of trees on the highest summit of the Gogmagogs & in Lord Osborne's park. 1835,Coleman(a),66.
L. Osborne's park & 10–tree–hill Gogmagogs. Coleman(b).
Gog Magog, Hb JA Power, 10.5.1834, RTE.
Senecio campestris Gog Magog Hills, JS Henslow, 24.5.1834, [printed label], SWN.
Gogmagog Hills, CE Broome, 5.1835, BM.
Gogmagog Hills, T.R.Tuck, 1837, BM.
Senecio campestris Gog Magog Hills, Mr Cummings, 1840, SWN.
Haslam and I walked to Cherry Hinton and over the 'Gogs,' returning by the Hills Road. Found...Cineraria campestris,...22.5.1841 Bab.Mem.99.
Cineraria campestris Gogmagog Hills, Robt. C Douglas, 23.5.1846, Folder 28, Gen.Hb.WBCH.
Gogs, CC Babington, 4.5.1846, CGE.
Gogmagog Hills, CC Babington, 23.5.1846, BM.
Gogmagog Hills, in and beyond the Park, Bab.1860,129.
... and on the Wool–street. Bab.1860,129.
omit: and... Wool street.... Bab.MS.Fl.2:414.
Went the same round as on April 22nd, [Gogs].also saw the Senecio campestris in flower. 28.5.1861 Bab.Mem.197.
Syme came for the day. He and I went to the Gogs, and found...Senecio campestris,...9.5.1863 Bab.Mem.201.
Gogmagog Hills, n.c., 12.6.1863, CGE.
Went to the Gogs with Mr. TB Blow, and found... Senecio campestris in the pit under Little Trees Hill. 31.5.1876 Bab.Mem.222.
Gogmagog Hills, HL Jones, 1876, CGE. [spec. not found]
Gogmagog Hills, West ann.
Gogmagog Hills, HD.ann.
Gogs area, N.D.Simpson, c.1913.
In the pit under Lt Trees Hill, 31 May 1876, Bab Mem. p.222. [this is probably Stapleford parish pit].
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I...alighted at Bartlow Hills to see what plants grew on them when I found the Jacobaea mont latifolia, coming to flower... of all these I brought plants for my Garden.... April 25 1730, Dale, Iter Cantab.
... gather'd... Jacobaea mont and other plants at Bartlow Hills. June 10 1734, Dale, Iter Cantab.
... I this day return'd to Braintree by the same way as Iter the 6th but it being early in the year, my collection could be but small gathering only the Jacobaea montana, in flower,.. .May7th 1735, Dale, Iter Cantab.
Bartlow. Martyn,1763,Herbat.X.
Bartlow Hills, very sparingly. G[ibson]. First noticed there by J. Chater, about the year 1855. Gibson,1862.
Senecio campestris Bartlow Hills, n.c., n.d., SWN.
Bartlow Hills, [?Gibson's Flora] Essex, 7.1864, SWN.
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Fleam Dyke, WP Hearn, 1865, CGE.
N. end of Fleam Dyke, sprinkled about, 4.6.1879, Bent.ann.
Fleam Dyke, Mr Venn, 6.6.1879, Cowell Hb IPS.
Fleam Dyke, West.ann.
Went to the Fleam Dyke, and found...Senecio campestris in flower in abundance. 13.5.1882, Bab.mem.234.
Fleam Dyke. Bab.1860,129.
Fleam Dyke, A Malins Smith, 3.6.1903.
Fleam Dyke, FRA, 1905, CBSC.
Fleam Dyke, Mills ann.
Fleam Dyke, n.c., 1935, det. PD Sell, CGE.
Fleam Dyke, EAs Plentiful on Fleam Dyke, 7.5.1949. DE Coombe, Card index.
Fleam Dyke, D.J. McClintock, 5.1952.
Fleam Dyke, 545.544, C Turner & CFG exc., 20.5.1995, [R].
Fleam Dyke, 15 fl. stems between the first and last Junipers, scattered beside path on top in very short turf, S Hearle with G Crompton et al, 30.5.2001.
Fulbourn, FR Tenant, 5.1898, CGE.
Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club at Six Mile Bottom....Also went half–a mile along the Chesterford road, then turned to the left, and examined a new and an old plantation...in the latter Cineraria campestris. 20.6.1855 Bab.Mem.177.
Enclosure to S. of Six Mile Bottom, CC Babington, 20.6.1855, CGE.
Balsham Heath, RB Smart, Bab.1860,129.
add: Inclosure south of Six mile Bottom. Bab.MS.Fl.2:414.
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This morning I walked down to Newmarket Heath and found the Cineraria integrifolia just coming into blossom. This plant is found growing to the right of the Beacon Course, along the edge of the Heath near a small gravel pit overgrown with furze. It is entirely confined to this one spot, and appears to be diminishing in quantity every year. The operations of the plough encroach so fast upon the Heath and curtail its limits to such a degree that it is probable before many years the Cineraria will be extinct there like many other plants which are mentioned by the older Botanists as having been found on Newmarket Heath, but which are not known to grow there at the present day. Jenyns,JNH,25.5.1824.
Newmarket Heath, L.J., 25.5.1824, BATHG.
We went this morning again down to the Heath and found the Cineraria Integrifolia in full flower. We brought home an abundance of specimens for preservation. Jenyns,JNH,7.6.1824.
Newmarket Heath, Hb. Winch, 7.6.1824, BM.
Newmarket Heath, JS Henslow, 7.6.1824, CGE.
Gnaphalium dioicum & Cineraria integrifolia are now in high perfection as well as abundance. Some years ago, this last species, I had supposed to have been lost on the Heath, till two seasons ago, in company with Professor Henslow, I found a few specimens growing sparingly on a small part of the beacon course near the gravel–pit. Last season it was more plentiful, than in the one preceding, but this year there are hundreds of thousands of specimens. Every part of the Heath is covered with them from the four–mile Stable to the extreme part of the Links,... Jenyns,JNH,14.5.1825.
Swaffham, W Peete, 4.1836, CGE.
Swaffham, JS Henslow, 5.1836, CGE.
Dist.5. Newmarket Heath, near Swaffham!; Henslow. Bab.1860,129.
Dist.5. omit: near Swaffham. Bab.MS.Fl.2:414.
Newmarket Heath, near Swaffham, West ann.
Devil's Dyke, Burwell end, E.M.Walker, 1907, CGE.
1 plant, Ditch Farm Section, [Burwell end, Hypo mac area], 1957, f. JW Clarke. 1976.
scantily on Beacon Course, JW Clarke, 2.6.1957.
on barrow in plantation near Round Course, JW Clarke, n.d. (f. JW Clarke, c.1972).
Beacon Course, 2 fl plants, 27 paces SE (i.e. towards hedge) of 1
M (J) post, c.59–62–, G.Crompton, 23.5.1987.65
Dullingham, WH Coleman, Bab.1860,129.
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NEWMARKET HEATH AND DEVIL'S DITCH
... and Newmarket Heath. Ray,1660,80(76).
Newmarket On the bank of the great Ditch called Devils ditch. Ray,Index Loc.
* Jacobaea angustifolia G. 280. Mountain Ragwort, ...and New–Market–heath. Merrett,1667,66.
Jacobaea montana lanuginosa angustifolia non laciniata Mountain Ragwort and Newmarket–heath, on the banks of the Devils–ditch, &c. Ray,1670:176.
Jacobaea angustifolia and Newmarket heath. [Antrobus] R(ay) H(istoria) 272. Sloane Hb. 151:103. BM.
Jacobaea Pannonaica folio non laciniato ...Mountain Ragwort with an undivided Leaf.... Newmarket Heath, the Devils ditch, and other like places. Ray Syn.1690,49; Ray,1696,80; Ray,1724,178.
Jacobaea montana lanuginosa angustifolia non laciniata Martyn,1727,26.
Jacobaea montana, languinosa, angustifolia, non laciniata. Mountain Ragwort, with an undivided leaf....New–Market–Heath, and other such like places. Martyn,1732,2:44.
Newmarket. In and about the Devil's Ditch. Martyn,1763,Herbat.IX.
Cineraria integrifolia... within 50 yards of Newmarket turnpike gate, left hand side plentifully. Crowe ann.Hudson,1778.370.
Cineraria integrifolia C. alpina Mountain Cineraria. Newmarket Heath. Relhan,1785;1802.
Senecio campestris Devils Ditch, Relhan, 1786, Hb Rev. J Dalton, YRK:663; HJW Cat.
Cineraria integrifolia Devil's Ditch C Abbott, Fl.Selecta 1:16, LTN.
Cineraria integrifolia Gathered by the Rev. Mr. Hemsted on... and Newmarket heath, where, as on many other chalky downs of England, this plant is to be found flowering in May and June. Smith,Eng.Bot. (1794) 3:152.
Newmarket Heath, Illustr. p. 346: James Sowerby sculp., James Bolton del. Relhan,1820.
Newmarket Heath, JS Henslow, 7.6.1824, CGE.
Newmarket Heath. 1823. 1824. 1825 covered the heath. Henslow ann.2:347.
... Last season it was more plentiful, than in the one preceding, but this year there are hundreds of thousands of specimens. Every part of the Heath is covered with them from the four–mile Stable to the extreme part of the Links, as is also the Devils ditch the whole way from Swaffham to Stetchworth. I cannot see that there is the smallest danger of the species becoming extinct in that district at present;– but why one season should produce it so much more abundantly than another, is one of those mysteries in Nat: Hist: which I leave to abler heads than mine to explain. Jenyns,JNH,14.5.1825.
Newmarket Heath, L.J., 9.6.1825, BATHG.
Newmarket Heath, JS Henslow, 5.1828, CGE.
Devil's Ditch, Newmarket heath, damp year, Hb JA Power, 6.1829, RTE.
Cambridgeshire, Dr Jermyn, n.d., BM.
Devil's Ditch, J.Downes, 1832, CGE.
Newmarket Heath J.D., 2.6.1832, NTM.
Newmarket Heath, 'which was not sufficiently advanced' [to be gathered], 20.5.1835, WC Trevelyan Diary.
Cineraria integrifolia Newmarket Heath. Devils ditch between Stechworth & the road from Newmarket to Dullingham. 1835,Coleman(a),66; Coleman(b).
Cineraria campestris Devil's Ditch, Newmarket. (Prof. Henslow) Hooker, sp. [in hb.Watson] NBG,1835,149.
Newmarket Heath, n.c., 6.1835, BM.
Devil's Ditch near Newmarket, Mrs Delmer, 6.1838, CGE.
Devil's Ditch, near the Gap upon Newmarket Heath, and abundantly on the Devil's Ditch near Stetchworth, S Hailstone, 1845, YRK:663; & HJW Cat. –June 1845 added, SH Cat.
Newmarket Heath, n.c.,5.1846, BM.
Cineraria campestris Devil's Ditch, Gibson,1848,310.
Devil's Ditch, SE French, 18.6.1859, Hb Lady Blake, IPS.
Dist.1. Devil's Ditch. Bab.1860,129.
Dist.1.Newmarket Heath; Bab.1860,129.
Newmarket Heath, T Henderson, 1874, [?CGE].
Newmarket, chalky soil, W Jordon, 6.1876, Hb Hind, IPS.
Devil's Ditch, 6.1881, WJ Cross, CGE.
Devil's Ditch, with CC Babington, 31.5.1882, Cowell Hb., IPS.
Devil's Ditch, C.C.Babington, 28.6.1885, CGE.
Devil's Ditch, Shrubbs ann.
Devil's Ditch, West.ann.
Devil's Ditch, A Wallis, [c.1900], CGE. 'can be found', Wallis,1904.
Devil's Ditch, Rev. GT Manley, 1905, CBSC.
Devil's Ditch,PJ Gibbs, 1905–1906, CCHSB Notes.
Devil's Ditch, E.T., 1907,
Newmarket Heath, AJ Crosfield, 13.6.1907, CGE.
July Course, Newmarket, Hb RS Adamson, 19.5.1908, BM.
Devil's Ditch, Miss Neggitt, Hb Foggitt, 10.6.1909, HUDDS.
Devil's Ditch, ND Simpson, 1913.
Devil's Ditch,... sparsely on Newmarket Heath, Devil's Ditch, or very near...Evans,1939.
Devil's Ditch, TG Tutin, c.1932.
Newmarket Heath, T.G.Tutin, c.1932.
Devils Ditch. Newmarket. in fair quantity 6.6.1946, Hb DEC/309. DE Coombe, Card Index.
Devil's Dyke, SM Walters, 1.6.1951, cult, CUBG, 6.1952, CGE.
In abundance on the Round Course at the junction with the July Course, [i.e. nr Jockey's 'hut'], JW Clarke, 31.5.1959.
Devil's Dyke, common, PD Sell, 27.6.1961.
Devil's Ditch, west of railway. (Dullingham Rd), and west of A11, Cttee Walk, 6.1972.
Devil's Ditch, no fl. plants found west of A11 (fired) 5.4.78, Cttee Walk, 12.7.1978.
20 – 50 plants, nr Cambridge Gap, 2 – 3m SW of edge of Devil's Ditch, between it and sandy track, on level ground, in 70 paces, in highly calcareous short turf, rich in chalk species, including annuals such as Gentianella amarella & Euphrasia pseudokerneri, and with Astragalus danicus and Hippocrepis comosa, on a distinct rise in the ground where the soil is no doubt shallower – nr Knackers' 'Gate', July Course, Stetchworth parish, 614.618, D.E.Coombe, 27.5.1987.
July Course, highly calcareous short turf, Stetchworth parish, 614.618, with Astra dan & Hippo com mown recently by 5.6.1987, first seen 27.5.1987, c.over 50 plants, mown off heads, c.70 paces near Knackers 'Gate', DE Coombe, CGE.
Nr Cambridge Gap, only 8 fl. stems but dozens mown off, wilting and chopped up inflorescences, DE Coombe, 5.6.1987.
Nr Cambridge Gap, only a few veg. rosettes (some fruiting on unmown slope of ditch), DE Coombe, JR Akeroyd & CD Preston, 20.6.1987
7 flowering plants, all within 20 paces of hut, & not far from hedge, at junction of Round and July Course, Swaffham Prior, 609.620, on both sides of jockeys' hut at S corner of airstrip, survives because of close mowing, DE Coombe, 27.5.1987.
Devil's Ditch, 60–62–, DA Wells & B Smith, 25.6.1993, [R].
On barrow in plantation near Round Course, JW Clarke, n.d. (f. JW Clarke, c.1972).
