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Imports and prices.—About 50,000 pounds of lappa or burdock root 
are imported annually, and the best root is said to come from Belgium, 
where great care is exercised in its collection. 
The price of the root ranges from 3 to 8 cents per pound, and that 
of the seed from 5 to 10 cents. 
DANDELION. 
Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst. (Taraxacum officinale Weber.) 
Fie. 3.—Dandelion ( Tararacum tarazacum (L.) Karst). (An unusually fibrous root.) 
Other common names.—Blow-ball, cankerwort, doon-head-clock, 
fortune-teller, horse gowan, Irish daisy, yellow gowan, one o’clock. 
(Fig. 3.) saat 
Range and habitat.—Dandelion is distributed as a weed in all civi- 
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