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thin-textured leaves are all produced directly from 
the rootstock. They are boldly cut into angular 
lobes, with the points directed towards the root, and 
there is a secondary jagging of their margins into 
smaller teeth. The largest of these lobes have been 
fancied to resemble the canine teeth of the lion, 
whence the common name—derived from French 
dent-de-lion. ‘The flower-heads are borne singly ona 
pipe-like leafless stalk springing from the centre of 
the leaf-rosette, and there are nearly a couple of 
hundred florets in a well-developed head. They are 
all strap-shaped and yellow; the blunt tips notched 
into five teeth, hinting that the strap was once 
composed of five petals. 
In the accompanying figure of a single floret picked 
out from the crowd, all the parts are exhibited. At 
its base is the ovary containing a single 
seed-egg, and above this the calyx spht 
up into a large number of hairs which 
surround the corolla, tubular below and 
flattened out above. Within the corolla 
are the five anthers or pollen-bags united 
by their edges into a tube through which | 
passes the style, branching above into two | | 
curled arms—the stigmas. When the | 
{lower-head first opened, these arms were 
not to be seen, for they were quite straight 
and pressed face to face, low down in the 
anther-tube. The anthers shed _ their 
pollen in this tube above the style, and Dandelion floret 
when the insects began to come after the 
abundant nectar which lay in the lower part of the 
corolla the style began to lengthen,so that the pollen 
