Taraxacum. ] Composite ‘ 173 
heads in lax corymbs on glabrous peduncles; involucral 
bracts sparsely hispid. 
About Nuvara Eliya. Fl. Dec., Feb.; yellow. 
A native of Europe and N. Africa. 
34b. Taraxacum Weber. 
T. vuLGaRE Schrank, Baier. Reise p. 11 (1789). JT. Densleonis 
Desf. Fl. Atl. II, p. 228 (1798). T. officinale Weber ex Wigg. Prim. 
Pr taols. py 56 (1740); Hic. f. in Fl. Brit: Ind.. ITT, p.. gor (1882). 
Leontodon Taraxacum Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 798 (1753). L. vulgaris Lamk. 
Fi. Fr. I], p. 113 (1778). L. officinalis Gmel. Syst. p. 1174 (1768). 
Page 52.—For Lactuca Heyneana DC. read: 
L. runcinata DC. in Wight Contrib. p. 26 (1834); Gamble FI. 
Madr. p. 731 (1921). Prenanthes sonchifolia Willd. Sp. Pl. III, p. 1541 
(1800) non Lactuca sonchifolia Willd. Chondrilla racemosa Poir. 
Encycl. Suppl. II, p. 330 (1811) non Lactuca racemosa Willd. Chon- 
drilla indica Steud. Nom., ed. 1, p. 191 (1821) non Lactuca indica 
Linn. L. Heyneana DC. Prodr. VII, p. 140 (1838). 
For Launea pinnatifolia Cass. read: 
L. sarmentosa (Willd.). Prenanthes sarmentosa Willd. Phytogr. 
p- 10 t. 6 f. 2 (1794); Sp. Pl. III, p. 154 (1800). Launea pinnatifida 
Cass. in Ann. Sc. Nat. XXIII, p. 85 (1831). L. bellidifolia Cass. in 
Dict.-Se. Nat. XXV, p. 321 -(1822). 
35a. SONCHUS Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs with latex; 1. alternate; heads 
terminal; involucre multiseriate, herbaceous; receptacle flat, 
naked; fls. all ligulate; ligules 5-toothed at apex; anth.-bases 
sagittate; style-arms slender; pappus multiseriate, hairs 
united at base; achenes ribbed, not beaked.—Sp. 30. 
Auricles acute; annual; invol. glabrous . : . 1. S. oleraceus: 
Auricles rounded : 
Annual; invol. glabrous ; : +: 2b he, ee 
Perennial; involucre hispid . ; : : = Fn ee, HAPUOTESES: 
1. S. OLERACEUS Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 794 (1753); Hk. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. 
III, p. 414 (1882). S. ciliatus Lamk. Fl. Fr. II, p. 87 (1778). 
An annual herb; stem about 2 ft.; leaves about 6 in. long, 
lanceolate, $-amplexicaul, deeply pinnatifid, glabrous; auri- 
cles tailed; involucre glabrous; heads 3 in. across; achenes 
ribbed and transversely wrinkled. 
Common in waste places above 1500 ft. Fl. Feb.—Mar., Oct. 
A native of Europe and N. Asia; introduced before 1836. 
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