COMPOSITE. 139 



Var. 0, minor. 

 Plate DCCXCIX. 

 BUlot, Fl. GalL et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1513. 



Kei:h. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXC. Fig. 2. 

 T. minor, Fr. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 195. Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. ii. p. 241 ■ 

 Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 5. 



Florets about half the length of the phyllaries. Stem usually 

 taUer and more slender than in var. a. 



Var. y, grandiJlorviS. 

 Plate DCCC. 

 BUht, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1514. 



Keicli. Ic. FL Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XIX Tab. MCCCLXC. Fig. 1 (1). 

 T. pratensis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 434. 

 T. orientalis, Linn. (?) et Auct. (?). 



Florets considerably longer than the phyllaries. 



In meadows, pastures, and waste places. Common, and o-ene- 

 rally distributed throughout England; more rare in Scotland, 

 where it has been found as far North as the counties of Aberdeen 

 and Sutherland. Var. 3 is the most frequent form, especially in 

 Scotland. Var. y is apparently rare : I have found it at Sydenham, 

 Kent ; on the chalk hills near Betchworth, Surrey ; and have seen 

 it from near Cobham, Kent. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Root a long tapering tap-root with white milky juice. Radical 

 leaves resembling those of garlic or a narrow-leaved leek, dilated 

 and somewhat sheathing at the base, keeled beneath, channelled 

 above, with midrib hollow and white; stem-leaves much dilated 

 and amplexicaul at the base, then suddenly acuminated into linear 

 , points. Stem branched, the upper portion bare of leaves for a 

 'considerable distance below the fruiting anthodes, immediately 

 beneath which they are suddenly and very slightly dilated. Peri- 

 cline lanceolate -oblong in bud, lanceolate-ovoid after flowerino- ; 

 phyllaries all equal, 8, in 2 rows, narrowly-lanceolate, flat. Florets 

 very variable in length, yellow, sometimes streaked with brown. 

 Anthodes 1^ to If inch long in fruit. Achenes olive-yellow, the 

 central ones generally smooth, the outer ones muricated with small 

 elevated scales; but sometimes they are all nearly smooth, and 

 sometimes they are all more or less muricated ; the beak also varies 

 in length, sometimes a little shorter, and sometimes a little longer 

 than the achene, with a hau-y ring at the summit. Pappus plumose 



