COMPOSITE. 143 



Leaves dull-green, often slightly glaucous, very deeply pin- 



natifid, usually runcinate, with the lobes triangular-strapshaped, 



rather distant. Inner phyllaries gibbous and mostly with a flat 



strapshaped appendage a little below the apex ; the outer ones 



lanceolate, spreading. Achenes dark-red, spinulose-muricated at 



the apex. 



Var. 7, IcBvigatum. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCV. Fig. 3. 

 T. Isevigatum, D. C. Prod. Vol. YII. p. 146. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 316. 

 T. officinale, var. Taraxacoides, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. i. p. 492. Reich. Jil. 

 1. c. p. 2b. 



Leaves dull - green, deeply pinnatifid, with triangular - strap- 

 shaped distant lobes. Inner phyllaries gibbous and mostly with a 

 flat strapshaped appendage a little below the apex ; outer phyl- 

 laries ovate-lanceolate, loosely adpressed. Achenes olive, spinulose- 

 muricated at the apex. 



Var. 0, j^alustre. 

 Plate DCCCIV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1252. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCVI. 



T. palustre, B. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 148. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 317. 



T. officinale, var. lividum, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 492. 



Leontodon palustre, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 553. 



Leaves dull - green sinuate - dentate, pinnatifid or runcinate- 

 pinnatifid with triangular broad approximate lobes. Inner phyl- 

 laries simple at the apex ; outer ones ovate, adpressed or spreading. 

 Achenes olive or dull-yellow, spinous-muricated at the apex. 



In meadows, pastures, fields, &c. Very common, and univer- 

 sally distributed. Var. ^ on chalk-downs, and in sandy places ; 

 var. 7 in sandy places ; var. 8 in moist situations, and apparently 

 rare in the South of England. 



'O' 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 

 3, early Summer ; o, late Summer and Autumn. 



Plant with a long tap-root passing insensibly into a simple or 

 many-headed rhizome. Leaves in var. a oblanceolate, the earliest 

 ones both in this and the other varieties generally undivided, and 

 merely toothed, but the later ones are generally pinnatifid with 

 broadly triangular lobes pointing backwards, toothed on the side 

 towards the apex of the leaf, entire on that towards the base, and 

 toothed and entire on the space between the teeth. Scapes leafless, 

 numerous, fragile, hollow, decumbent, ascending or erect, 2 to 15 



