SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-/L:QU.Tragopogon.SS7 

 370. TRAGOPOGON. Goat's-beard. 



Linn. Ge)i. 308. Jiiss. 170. Fl. Br. 812. Tourn. t,270. Lam. 

 t. 64fi. Gcertn. L 159. 



Common Cal. simple, of several lanceolate equal scales, 

 ranged alternately in two rows, all connected at the base, 

 permanent. Cor. compound, imbricated, uniform ; j^o- 

 rets numerous, all perfect, uniform, ligulate, abrupt, with 

 5 teeth ; the outer ones rather the longest. Filam. 5, 

 from the tube, capillary, very short. Anth. in a cylin- 

 drical tube. Germ, obovate. Style thread-shaped, as 

 long as the anthers. Stigm. 2, revolute. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the converging, pointed common calyx, about as 

 long as the seed?, tumid at the base, finally reflexed. Seed 

 1 to each floret, oblong, angular, striated, rough, taper- 

 ing at each end, crowned by the orbicular flattish seed- 

 down, consisting of about 30 spreading feathery rays, on 

 a long awl-shaped stalk. Recept. flat, naked, minutely 

 cellular. 



Biennial, nearly smooth, herbs, with long, undivided, ta- 

 pering leaves, sheathing at the base. Fl. terminal, soli- 

 tary, large, erect, yellow or purple, closing before noon. 



1. T. praie?ish. Yellow Goat's-beard. 



Calyx about equal to the corolla. Leaves keeled, tapering; 

 dilated and somewhat undulated at the base. Flower- 

 stalk cylindrical. 



T. pratensis. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 1 09. mild. v. 3. 1 492. Fl. Br. 8 1 2. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 7. t. 434. Hook. Scot. 226. Fl. Dan. t, 906. Bulh 

 Fr. t. 209. 



T. n.-S. Hall. Hist. v.\. 5. 



T. luteum. RaiiSyn.]7l. Ger. Em.735.f. 



Tragopogon. Fuchs.Hist.82\.f. Matth. Falgr. v. \. 490./. 



T. flore luteo. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1058./. 1. 1059. 



Barbula hirci. Trag. Hist. 280./. Corner. Epit. 3 1 2./ 



Hirci barba. Cord. Hist. 156./. 



Narrow and Common Goat's-beard. Peiiv. H. Brit. t. 15./. 6, 7. 



In grassy pastures and meadows. 



Biennial. June. 



Root tapering. Whole herb very smooth, abounding with milky 

 juice, ratherbitter,butnotacrid. iS/e»ns several, branching, erect, 

 round, leafy, 1^ or 2 feet high, often purplish. Leaves alternate, 

 long and taper-pointed, often flaccid, or curling, at the extre- 

 mity 4 inflated at the base ; several of them radical. Fl. large, 2 

 inches wide, bright yellow, solitary, on terminal stalks, opening 



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