CLASS XIX. ORDER I. | TRAGOPOGON. 1019 
with rigid hairs; leaves radical, ovate oblong, scattered over with 
hairs, entire or toothed on the margin. 
English Botany, t. 225.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 375.— Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 290.—Achyrophorus maculatus, Scop.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 161. 
Fioot long, thick, tapering, fleshy, and with slender fibres, very 
milky. Stem round, rough, simple, or sometimes slightly branched, 
erect, solitary, bearing one or two scale-like leaves. Leaves radical, 
spreading on the surface of the ground, ovate oblong, entire, or 
unequally and grossly toothed on the margin, dark green above, and 
mostly scattered over with unequal sized brown spots, pale and some- 
what glaucous beneath. lowers large, deep yellow. Florets strap- 
shaped, toothed at the extremity. Segments of the involucre narrow 
lanceolate, entire on the margin, rough on the back, with rigid 
bristles, and the intermediate ones downy towards the point. Fruit 
all taper-pointed. 
Habitat.—Limestone and chalky pastures; not unfrequent in 
England; Ormshead, North Wales; dry woods, east of Forfar, 
Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
GENUS II. TRAGOPO'GON.—Linn. Goat’s-beard. 
Nat. Ord. Composi’tz. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Jnvolucrum simple, of from eight to twelve leafy scales, 
united at the base. Receptacle naked. Fruit longitudinally 
striated and beaked. Pappus feathery—Name from texyos, 
a goat; and zwywy, a beard; so called from the beautiful bearded 
fruit. 
1. T. praten'sis, Linn. (Fig. 1193.) Yellow Goat’s-beard. Peduncles 
cylindrical, slightly thickened beneath the flower; involucre segments 
about as long as the florets; leaves channeled, with a long slender 
tapering point ; fruit striated and tuberculated, as long as the slender 
tapering beak. 
English Botany, t. 434.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 337.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 289.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 161. 
Ffioot long, tapering, fleshy, the whole plant smooth, of a pale 
glaucous hue, abounding with milky juice. Stems mostly several, 
erect, round, simple or branched, from one to two feet high, leafy, 
striated. Leaves ovate at the base, with a long slender tapering 
point, the margin mostly somewhat wavy at the base, the radical 
ones numerous, alternate on the stem. Flowers terminal, solitary; 
rather large, yellow, expanding on fine days early in the morning, 
and closing before noon. Jlorets strap-shaped, half an inch long, 
toothed at the apex. Involucre segments smooth lanceolate, taper- 
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