154 REMARKS ON TRAGOPOGON MINOR. 
last species (major), and at this moment I cannot bring to my 
recollection that I ever saw the first (pratensis). 
I send you a few extracts which may be useful. Yours truly, 
Boranicvs. 
1. Tragopogon calycibus corolle radium eguantibus (pratensis). 
—Hull’s Flora Anglica, 1762. 
2. Tragopogon pratense. Pericline as long as the flowers in the 
circumference.—Gray’s Nat. Arr. of British Plants, 1821. 
3. Tragopogon pratensis. Involucre about as long as the co- 
rolla.—Loudon’s Ency. of Plants, 1829. 
4. Tragopogon pratensis. Calyx as long as the rays of the 
blossom. Mr. Woodward remarks that the calyx invariably ex- 
ceeds the blossom.—Withering, 1830. . 
5. Tragopogon pratensis, Linn. Involucre about as long as the 
corollas.—7T. major, Jacq. Involucre more than half as long again 
as the yellow corollas. Stations: Eccles, banks of the Tweed at 
Bingham, on authority of Dr. Johnson. Dr. H. remarks: “The 
observations and specimen with which Mr. Thomson has fa- 
voured me, have satisfied me that it is the 7. major of ‘ Flora 
Austriaca,’ a native of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It 
grows abundantly in the station above given, while the 7. pra- 
tensis is found nowhere in the country.— Hooker’s Brit. Flora, 
3rd edit. 1835. 
6. Tragopogon major, Norfolk ?, York, Durham, Northumber- 
land. P. 345: “The only species in the neighbourhood of New- 
castle and.in the north of England.” P. 132: shady hedges, 
not uncommon. (Hist. Yarmouth. MS. Flora of a portion of Nor- 
folk and Suffolk.)—Trag. pratensis, L., 6, minor, Fries. This 
variety is frequent. I never saw anything answering the descrip- 
tion of pratensis.—Watson’s New Bot. Guide, 1835. 
7. T. pratensis. Calyx about equal to the corolla.—T. major, 
Jacq. Austr. Calyx more than half as long again as the yellow 
corollas. Pastures in the north, rare-—Compend. of Eng. Flora, 
by Dr. Hooker, 1836. 
- 8. T. pratense. Leaves of the involucre equal in length to 
the florets, p. 150.—T. major. Involucre half as long again as 
the yellow corollas. Several stations in the north, p. 270.— 
Irvine’s London Flora, 1838. 
9. T. pratensis, Li. Involucre about as long as the corollas. 
