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M.owi'.Rs ()!• rm-. I ii:i.i)s and mI'.adows 



Goat's IU-;ird is very largely a clay plain, and luldictcd to a clay 

 soil, but will also >;ro\v on sandy loam, especially on cultivated L^rountl. 

 It is abundant on Triassic, Liassic, and ( dacial clay and sands. 



The fundus Us//7ago tragopogi converts the inflorescence into a 

 black powdery mass; Pitcciuia tragopogi, Cystopus tragopogonis, and 

 Jinii/ia lactitccc are oilier luii^i pests. A moth, The Mou.se, y\iu- 

 p/iipvra tragopogouis, and a tl\, Uicllia stellata. also attack it. 



Tragopogon, 1 )ioscor- 

 ides, is from the Greek 

 tragos, goat, and pogoii, 

 a beard, because of the 

 bearded fruit, and the 

 second Latin name re- 

 fers to the hal)ilat, a 

 meadow. 



l^uck's-beard, She[)- 

 herd's Clock, Gait-berde, 

 Goat's Beard, Go-to- 

 bed-at-noon, Jack-by- 

 the- hedge, J oh n- go- to - 

 bed-at-noon, Joseph's 

 Flower, Xap-at-noon, 

 Noontide, Sleep-at-noon, 

 Star of Jerusalem are 

 some of its common 

 names. Of the name 

 Go-to-bed-at-noon says 

 Gerarde: "It shutteth 

 it-selfe at twelve of the 

 clock, and sheweth not 

 his face open until the 

 Wherefore it was called 



Go.\T's Beard [Tragopusrnn pmlcnse, L.) 



lake it Hower anew. 



ne.Kt daies sunne do 

 Go-to-bed-at-noon." 



Joseph's Flower was a name given to it, according to J. C. Hare, 

 because of the pictures representing Joseph, the husband of Mary, 

 as a long-bearded man. 



Bishop Mant says of the first name: — 



And goodly now the noon tide hour, 

 When from his high meridian tower 

 The sun looks down in majesty, 

 What time about the grassy lea 



