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I greatly and gradually thickened upwards beneath the anthodes. 

 Florets purplish-lilac. Achenes beaked, with the beak about as 

 long as the achene, ribbed, the outer ones strongly squamous- 

 muricated. Pappus of all the florets with plumose hairs. 



Var. a, sativus. 



Heick lo. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXXXVII. Figs. 2, 3 

 Sm. Eng. Bot. No. G38. 



I Florets about as long as the phyllaries. 



Var. 3, parvijlorus. 

 riorets about half the length of the phyllaries. 



In meadows and marshy places. Rather rare, and probably 

 introduced in many of its stations, though possibly it is native in 

 the South of England. Most of the specimens which hare come 

 under my notice belong to var. a ; var. 3 1 have seen from Tintcrn, 

 Monmouthshire, and the specimen figured in " English Botany" 

 which represents this was gathered near St. Vincent's E,ocks, 

 Bristol. 



England. Biennial. Summer. 



I ^ 



I This plant has much of the general habit of T. pratensis, but is 

 usually much larger, sometimes 2 or 3 feet high; the stem-leaves taper 

 more gradually ; but the most striking diiference is the thickening of 

 the peduncles beneath tlie anthodes, which are 1\ to 2 inches long 

 in fruit. Florets variable in length, as in T. pratensis, apparently 

 darker purple in var. 3 than in var. a, which is that which is gene- 

 rally cultivated. Fruit with the beak a Kttle longer than the 

 achene, the latter with the scales much more prominent and more 

 decidedly disposed in longitudinal lines than in T. pratensis. Plant 

 glabrous, and slightly glaucous. 



Salsify. 



I French, Salsifis d Feuilles de Poireau. German, LawJihliitt/nge Haferwwrz. 



I This species possesses all the properties of the former one, and by many is supposed 



' to be a more agreeable vegetable. It is eaten as a salad, and is also cultivated in gardens 



for boiling or stewing. The leaves, as the trivial name imports, resemble those of a 



leek, and its purple flower is sm-rounded by an involucrum which closes in the morning, 



as in the yellow Goat's-beard. 



Tribe III.— CREPOIDEtE. 



Pappus composed of filiform hairs, which are not plumose, nor 

 dilated at the base. 



