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Fruits with an elongated beak, carrying up the pappus as a stalked, umbrella- 

 shaped crown of hairs (Fig. 785). Lactuca sativa, Lettuce. L. virosa. L. 

 Scariola, Compass plant, has leaves which take a vertical position (cf. p. 351). 

 Cichorium Intybus (Chicory) has blue flowers and a pappus in the form of short, 

 erect scales (Fig. 784 (7). 0. endivia, Endive. Tragopogon and Scorzonera have a 

 feathery pappus ; Sc. hispanica. Crepis has a soft, flexible, hairy pappus of 



FIG. 789. Tiissilago Farfara. (After BAILLON.) 



brownish colour. Sonchus, pappus of several series of bristles, ffieracium, a large 

 European genu; with many forms. Pappus white, rigid, and brittle (Fig. 784 B}. 

 Usually there are florets of two distinct types in the capitulum. Numerous 

 species of Aster, Solidago, and Erigeron occur in Europe, America, and Asia. 

 Species of Aster are cultivated. Species of Haastia and Raoulia are cushion- 

 shaped plants with woolly hairs in New Zealand (Vegetable Sheep) (Fig. 191). 

 Inula occurs in Britain ; involucral leaves frequently dry and membranous. 

 In Gnaphalium, Antennaria, Helichrysum (Everlasting flowers), Leontopodium 



