138 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



equal to them in length ; inner phyUaries with the midrib bristlvJ 

 excurrent from the iDack a little way below the apex. Achenel 

 brick-red, abruptly acuminated at the apex, and produced into 

 beak longer than themselves, the greater part of which breaks of 

 with the deciduous snow-white pappus. 



Bristly Ox-tongtie. 



French, Helminthie Viperine. German, Natterhopfa/rtigea WurmkraiU. 



"When young, this plant forms an agreeable pot-herb ; the juice is milky, and nd 

 foo bitter in an early stage. 



GENUS XXXV.— T RAGOPOGON. Linn. 



Anthodes many-flowered. PericUne lanceolate-oblong, of 8 to 1^ 

 equal phyllaries in 1 series, united at the base. CHnanth naked 

 Achenes fusiform, sessile, the exterior ones muricated, all pro 

 duced into a long slender beak. Pappus of all the florets of dirtj 

 white plumose hairs, five of which are longer and naked at tl 

 apex ; the secondary hairs interwoven. 



Herbs, often smooth, with grass-like or leek -like leaves, havi 

 a white hoUow midrib. Anthodes large, solitary, with yeUov 

 purple, or Ulac florets. Phyllaries reflexed after the fall of tl 

 achenes. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from rpayog (tragoa),\ 

 goat, and woiywj' (^pogon), a beard, which the down of the seed is said to resemble. 



SPECIES I— TRAGOPOGON PRATENSIS. Unn. 

 Plates DCCXCVIII. DCCXCIX. DCCC. 



Leaves linear, those of the stem dilated at the base and ab- 

 ruptly acuminated into a slender point towards the apex, glabrous. 

 Peduncles scarcely thickened beneath the anthodes. Plorets yellow. 

 Achenes with the beak about as long as the achene, ribbed ; those 

 of the outer florets usually muricated on the ribs. Pappus of all 

 the florets of plumose hairs. 



Var. a, genuintts. 

 Plate DCCXCVIII. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3427. 

 Reidi. Ic. Fl. Gei-m. et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXXXIX. 

 T. pratensis, Fr. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 195. Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. il 

 p. 240 ; Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 6. 



Florets about equal in length to the phyllaries. 



