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furrowed, branching into a few peduncles, which are furnished 

 with scattered, remote scales, and are hollow, like many others 

 of the class, with a minute tuft, like cotton or cobweb, at the base 

 of their cavity within. Flowers yellow, resembling those of the 

 dandelion. The scales on the stalks and calyx are less numer- 

 ous than in the European variety. 



217. LEONTODON, 

 LEONTODON TARAXACUM. L. Dandelion. 



Outer scales of the'calyx reflexed ; leaves run- 

 cinate, toothed, smooth. 



The leaves of this very common plant are usually cited as 

 examples of the mncinate form. The supposed resemblance 

 to a lion's teeth will appear sufficiently obvious, to those who 

 are fond of tracing etymologies, in any of its names, leonto- 

 don, dens leonis, dent de lion, dandelion. The stalks or scapes 

 are simple, hollow, smooth, and round. Flowers single, of a 

 bright yellow. Calyx leaves entire, the outermost bent back- 

 wards. Florets ligulate, numerous. Down of the seeds on a 

 pedicel. Perennial. 



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218. PRENANTHES. 

 PHENANTHES ALBA. L. White flowering I'renanthes. 



Calyxes many flowered ; leaves angular-has- 

 tate, toothed ; flowers nodding ; racemes panicled. 

 Willd. 



A tall, lactescent plant, flowering in August and September. 

 The large, radical leaves are conspicuous much earlier in tin 

 season. They are more or less triangular or halberd shaped, 

 and toothed or lobed. The leaves of the stem are more regu- 

 larly ovate and toothed, the upper ones lanceolate. The stem 

 is commonly of a dark reddish colour, three or four feet high. 

 Flowers panicled, drooping ; calyx white, containing ten or ; 



