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c^reatly and gradually thickened upwards beneath the anthodes. 

 Elorets purplish-lilac. Achenes beaked, with the beak about as 

 long as the achene, ribbed, the outer ones strongly squamous- 

 muricated. Pappus of all the florets with plumose hairs. 



Var. a, sativus. ■ 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXXXVTI. Figs. 2, 3. 

 Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 638. 



Plorets about as long as the phyllaries. 



Var. 3, parviflorus. 

 Plorets about half the length of the phyllaries. 



In meadows and marshy places. Rather rare, and probably 

 introduced in many of its stations, though possibly it is native in 

 the South of England. Most of the specimens which have come 

 under my notice belong to var. a ; var. 3 1 have seen from Tintern, 

 Monmouthshire, and the specimen figured in *' English Botany " 

 which represents this was gathered near St. Vincent's E/Ocks, 



Bristol. 



England. Biennial. Summer. 



This plant has much of the general habit of T. pratensis, but is 

 usually much larger, sometimes 2 or 3 feet high; the stem-leaves taper 

 more gradually ; but the most striking difference is the thickening of 

 the peduncles beneath the anthodes, which are 1^ to 2 inches long 

 in fruit. Elorets variable in length, as in T. pratensis, apparently 

 darker purple in var. 3 than in var. a, which is that which is gene- 

 rally cultivated. Eruit with the beak a little longer than the 

 achene, the latter with the scales much more prominent and more 

 decidedly disposed in longitudinal lines than in T. pratensis. Plant 

 glabrous, and slightly glaucous. 



Salsify. 



French, Salsifis d, Feuilles de Poireau. German, Lauchhldttrige Haferwurz. 



This species possesses all the properties of the former one, and by many is supposed 

 to be a more agreeable vegetable. It is eaten as a salad, and is also cultivated in gardens 

 for boiling or stewing. The leaves, as the trivial name imports, resemble those of a 

 leek, and its purple flower is surrounded by an involucrum which closes in the morning, 

 as in the yellow Goat's-beard. 



Tribe III.— CREPOIDE^. 



Pappus composed of filiform hairs, which are not plumose, nor 

 dilated at the base. 



