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TARAXACUM. 



(leontodon* taraxacum.) 



Dandelion. 



Synoistms.— Dens leonis, Rail Syn., p. 170 5 Ger. Fm., p. 290. Hedypnois 

 Taraxacum, Scop. Cam. ii. 11. 957. Leontodon, Dens leonis, Lamarck, Fncy. 

 Method., vol. iii. p. 349. Taraxacum officinale, Villars Bauph., vol. iii. p. 72. 

 Leontodon vulgare, Lam. Fl. Franc, vol. ii. p. 113. Leontodon officinalis, With. 

 Bot. Arr., ed. 4, p. 679. Leontodon Taraxacum, Linn., Sp. FL, 1122, etc. 



Foreign Names.— Ft. : Dent de Lion, Pissenlit. Ital. : Tarapuco, Macerone. 

 Span.: Diente de leon. Fort.: Dente de leao. Germ.: lowenrahn, Pfaffen- 

 rohrlein. But.: Pardebloem, Zeenwewand. Swed. : Legontand, Maskrason. 

 Ban. : Lonetand, Priistekrone. Suss. : Oduvantschik, Dukie tsikoric. 



Nat Order, Composite, Linn. ; Cichorace^, Jms.— Synqe- 



NES1A, POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



Gen. Char.— Head many -flowered. Involucre double, external, scales 

 small, closely pressed, spreading, or reflexed ; internal ones in one row, 

 erect; all frequently callous-horned at the apex. Receptacle naked. 

 Achene oblong, striated, muricate near the small ribs, or spinellose at 

 the apex, terminating in a long beak. Pappus hairy, in many rows, 

 very white {De Cand.) 



Spec. Chae. — Quite smooth. Leaves unequally and acutely runcinate, 

 the lobes triangular, toothed inwardly. Scales of the involucre hornless, 

 the external ones reflexed. Achenes muricate at the apex {De Cand.) 



History. — This plant has been supposed to be the <*$*** of 

 Theophrastus ; it is much more likely to have been the ki%o%iov 



Figs. 1 and 2. A seed, with its stalked pappus. 3. A floret and gernien, style, 

 and stamens. 4. Receptacle and reflexed involuerum. 



* From \€op, a lion, and o8ovs, a tooth ; from the toothed-like margin of the 

 leaves. Dandelion, a corruption of the French Bent de lion. 



