COMPOSIT 35 
58. TRAGOPOGON, L. 
Flowers yellow or purple; capitule large, solitary; 
involucral bracts in one row, narrow, usually longer than 
the flowers; leaves entire, amplexicaul; fruit with a long 
beak ; pappus-hairs in several rows, rigid, feathery. Very 
milky plants; flowers always closing by mid-day. 
A. Flowers yellow :—T. pratensis, L. (including orzen- 
talis, L.), Goat’s-Beard ; involucral bracts not longer than 
the flowers, stem not much thickened below the capitule ; 
meadows, common. 7. dubzus, Vill.; involucral bracts 
twice as long as the flowers, stem of capitule not much 
thickened, leaves narrower; road-sides, local. Z. major, 
Jacq.; involucral bracts longer than the flowers, stem 
greatly thickened below the capitule; road-sides ; Swit- 
zerland, Dauphiny. 
4. Outer flowers purple, inner yellow :—7. crocifoltus, 
L.; involucral bracts 5-8, longer than the flowers, leaves 
linear ; very rare; Great St. Bernard, Dauphiny. 
59. SCORZONERA, L. 
Flowers yellow, purple, or pink ; capitules one or more; 
involucral bracts in several rows; leaves entire; fruit 
elongated, not beaked; pappus feathery. Alpine. 
A. Flowers yellow:— S. austriaca, Willd.; capitule 
solitary, stem 4-15 in., with a few scale-like leaves, root- 
leaves broadly oval, glabrous; Southern Switzerland, 
Jura, Savoy, Tirol, Styria, Dauphiny. S. humilis, L.; 
stem bearing I-3 capitules, with a few small leaves, 
woolly, involucre more or less woolly at the base; 
Southern Switzerland, Jura, Pyrenees. S. hzspanica, L., 
