426 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



C L A S S I S XIX. 



SYNGENESIA. 



POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



* Semijlofculofi, /. corollis Ugulatis omnibus, 



TRAGOPOGON. Gen. pL 905. 



Recevtaculum nudum. Calyx fimplex. Pappus plu- 

 mofus. 



pralenfe r. TRAGOPOGON calycibus corolljc radium aequan- 

 tibus, foliis integris flriclis. Sp. pi. 1109. (Ger, 

 em. y^f^., /. 2. Moris, bift.f, 7. t. 9- Jig- prima or- 

 dinis fuperioris. Pet, herb. t. 15./. 7. J 



Yellow Goat's Beard. Anglis. 



in meadows and paftures. Dr. Parjons, $ . VII. 



The root is tap-fliap'd. The llalk a cubit high 

 and branched. The leaves grafs-iike, flieathing 

 the llalk at the bafe, undulated on the edges, 

 and carinated or keel'd on the under fide. The 

 €alyx is divided to the bafe into 8, and fome- 

 dmcs 12 lanceolate fegments. Each branch is 

 terminated with a yellow flower. The feeds are 

 angular and tranfverfely ftriated, crown'd with 

 a pappus or down, which down (lands on a long 

 pedicle, and confiils of about 32 plumofe rays, 



horizontally 



