204 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
terete, each bearing a single head. tonal g,—the inner scales lance-linear, &P- 
pina with searious margins—the outer ones ora "slightly ciliate,  Snaak 'y the entire 
involucre reflexed. Flores yellow. hens terminating in a beak, which is short at first, 
then suddenly elongating to about three-fourths of an inch in length, filiform, bearing the 
at summit, diverging so as to form a globose hea 
res, &c.: nearly throughout the Un ited States : introduced. Native of Europe. 
-August. Fr. May —September. 
Obs. This foreigner—although not a — obnoxious plant—has 
come so pramegciot a - ized as to be more abundant than we'come, | 
in our pasture-grounds and m ade OWS : and $e, yet, if it cannot be 
or smothered out by an plants, it will be a difficult task to extirpate 
it—as myriads of seeds are annually wafted over the country b; 
7. Flower and leaf of the common Dandelion (Taraxacum Dens-Leonis). 
An elargea separate floret. 139. A receptacle with a portion of the akenes a = 
149. An enlarged akene with the pappus at the end of its elongated beak. i ela 
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