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Tuber, or bulb, lies deep in the ground ; brown on the outfide, 

 and white within, of an irregular roundiih. ihape ; of a grateful 

 tafte, wholefome and nutritive. 



66 Yellow-flowered Tragopogoti, or Goats-Beard (m). In meadows, 

 and in ilony places, by waters, plentifully. It is one of thofe 

 plants which, by an invariable law in nature, performs its con- 

 flant Vigilix, by clofing its leaves about noon. From which re- 

 markable property the common people call it, Go to Bed at Noon. 

 The root and young moots are efculent, of an agreeable tafte, 

 without any acrimony or vifcidity, very nouriihing. It flowers 

 in July. 



67. Purple-flowered Tragopogon, or Scorzonera (nj, does not grow 

 with us, but as it may have efcaped out of gardens. 



Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 274. Tourn. !lnft. p. 307. Bocrb. Ind. A. p. 70. Nucula terreflris SEP- 

 TENTRIONALIUM. Lot. Icon. p. 745. Apios. Turn. Hift. PI. p. 40. Ph. Tr. No. 202. 

 Bunium. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 208. Royen, lugdb. p. 107. Hall. Helv. p. 782. inter addenda. 



VulgO. KlPPER-NuT, PlQ-NuT, &HAWK-NuT. 



(m) Barba hircina. Dorjlen. p. 80. bene. Tragopogon f. barbula hirci. Mattb. p. 537. 

 bene. Cam. Epit. p. 312. cum Chara&ere. Tragopogon luteum. Lab. Icon. p. 550. Ger. p. 

 595. emac. p. 735. Raj. Hift. i. p. 252. Syn. iii. p. 76. Tragopogon luteum majus. /. B. 

 ii. p. 1058. Tragopogon pratenfe luteum majus. C. B. Pin. p. 274. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 79. 

 Tourn. Inft. p. 477. Bterb. Ind. A. p. 90. Dill. Giff. p. 91. Vaill. p. 266. Tragopogon 

 pratenfe. Linn. Sp. PI. 789. Tragopogon calycibus florem fuperantibus. Hort. Cliff, p. 382. 

 Flo. Suec. n. 648. Royen. lugdb. p. 119. variet. prima. Tragopogon foliis carinatis, am- 

 plexicaulibus, gramineis, flore luteo. Hall. Helv. p. 758. 



(n) Scorzonera elatior anguftifolia PANNONICA. Park. Theatr. p. 410. Viperina anguf- 

 tifolia elatior. Ger. emac. p. 737. Tragopogonis fpecies five Scorzonera major an^uftifolia 

 fubcaeruleo flore. /. B. n. p. 1062. Scorzonera anguftifolia fubcaerulea. C. B. Pin. p. 275. 

 Raj. Hift. i. p. 249. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 83. Town. Inft. p. 476. Tragopogon purpureo- 

 cseruleum, porri folio, quod Artifi vulgo. Tragopogon calycibus corollas radio longioribus, 

 foliis integris acuminatis ftriclis, pedunculis fuperne ijciafTatis. Linn. Hort. Upf. 243. 



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