LXI. 



LEONTODON TARAXACUM. 



Common Dandelion. 



Class XIX. Syngenesia.— 0;y/«- I. Polygamia 



iEQUALIS. 



Nat. Orel. Composite. 



Gen. Char. Involucre imbricated with scales, of which 

 the outermost are often lax and flaccid. Receptacle 

 naked. Pappus slipitate, simple. 



Spec. Char. Outer scales of the involucre lax and re- 

 flexed. Leaves runcinate, toothed, glabrous. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek a(pax,n ? Theophrasttis, 



Dens leonis latiore folio. Bauh. Fin. 120. 



Dens leonis. Ger. Em. 290. Rail Syn. 170. Dorf, 625. 



Hieracium majus. Trag. 262. 



Hedypnois Taraxacum. Scop. Carn. ii. n. 95?. 



Taraxacum officinale. Willd. Ilort. Ber. 772. 



Leontodon Taraxacum. Lin. Sp. P/. 1122. Flora Brit. 

 822. Eng. Bot. t. 510. 

 French .... Pissenlit ; Dent de lion. 



Italian Piscia en letto ; Dente di leone. 



Spanish .... Diente de leon ; Amargon ; Chicoria salvage. 



Portuguese. . . Dente de leao. 



German .... Lowenzahn ; Pfaffenrclhrlein ; Dotterblume ; Seichblume. 



Dutch Paardebloem ; Paapenkruid. 



Belgic Paardebloem ; Kankerbloem ; Mol Salade ; Pis in't bed. 



Danish Loevetand. 



Bohemian .... Plesska. 



Swedish ...... Lejontand ; Maskrosor. 



Polish Papawa ziele ; AVolowe oczy. 



Buss Molotschai trawa. 



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