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T. Dens-leonis (Desf.): at length glabroui 



prodr. 7. p. 145. T. officinale, VilL ; Koch, syn. fi. Germ. Sf Helv. p. 428, 

 var. a. Leontodon Taraxacum, Linn. ; Engl. hot. t. 510 ; Pursh, fl. 2. 

 p. 497 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 250 ; Hook..' Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 296 ; Darlingt.! fl. 



Pastures, &c., naturalized nearly throughout the United States ! P™^^^ 



sides of the Rocky Mountains. Hook. April-Sept.—" When the heads of 



whole involucre is reflexed, and the elevated pappus displayed in a globular 

 head." Darlingt.—The following species (the characters of which we copy 

 from chiefly De Candolle, who keeps them distinct), as weU a^ nearty all 



and ^Sr^eltSuert^'b^ta^ of this,'^the Common 



Dandelion. 



^ hairy 



e, glabrous above, sparsely hairj 

 les broadly triangular, toothed an- 



te exterior reflexed-spreading ; achenia muricate throughout. DC. 

 Newfoundland, Pylaie .'—Very [too] near T. Dens-leonis. DC 

 3. T. ceratophorum (DC.) : leaves glabrous, sinuate-toothed or rui 



;apes glabrous, when yc ' 



T. palustre (DC): gla 



e-third the length of the beak.^ DC. ! fl. Fr., Sf prodr. I. c.—- Leon 

 palustre. Smith, fl. Brit. 2. p. 823 ; ^ ' ^ P ^ . rr..i, , ^ 

 Am. 1. p. 296. L. Taraxacum (i. 

 Taraxacum montanum, Nutt. ! in i 



553 ; Hook. ! fl- 

 Meyer, pi Labrad. 



British America ! from Labrador and Hudson's Bay to the Pacific. Als 

 among the Rocky Mountains, in somewhat saline situations on the Piatt, 

 and in the highest vallies of the Colorado of the West. Nuttall .'—Vam 



5. T. hirsutum (Hook.): hirsute throughout ; leaves pinnatifid ; the un« 

 qual lobes acuminate, remote; scales of the involucre erect, appresse. 

 clothed with fulvous hairs. Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 296 (under Leontc 

 don); DC. i.e. 149. 



Menzies' Island, and sandy banks of the Oregon, Douglas, Dr. Scolder. 



