COMPOSITE FAMILY 



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all radical, obovate, toothed or pinnatifid ; heads on scapes, 

 yellow ; brads in 2 or 3 rows, the outer smaller ; -receptacle flat, 

 naked ; indl scarcely beaked, pappus of i or 2 rows of stiff hairs, 

 the inner feathery. (Name from .he Greek Udii, a lion, odous, 

 odonios, a tooth, from the runcinate leaves.) 



I. L. hispidus (Rough Hawk^bit).— A similarly hispid plant, 

 often with forked hairs ; leaves cblong-lanceolate, runcinate ; 

 peduncles fewer, longer, more swollen aboVe than in the preced- 

 ing, green; heads il in. across, drooping when in Lud, yellow. 



Meadows and waste places ; common. — Y\. June — September. 

 Biennial. 



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2. L. autunmdlis (Au- 

 tumn Hawk-bit). — A tall 

 plant, 2 — 3 feet high ; 

 leaves narrow, toothed or 

 pinnatifid, only hairy on 

 the ribs beneath ; scape 

 branched, bractcate, 

 swollen above ; heads 

 large, erect when in bud, 

 deep-yellow ; pappus of a 

 single row of brownish 

 feathery hairs. — Meadows 

 and cornfields ; abund- 

 ant. — Fl. July — Septem- 

 ber. Perennial. 



45. Tar.axacum (Dan- 

 delion). — Herbs with a 

 milky juice; leaves all 

 radical, runcinate; pedun- 

 cles hollow, leafless, unbranched ; heads solitary, yellow; bracts 

 in 2 rows, the inner erect, the outer often recurved : receptacle flat, 

 naked, pitted, becoming more convex in the fruit stage ; jruit 

 ribbed, with a long, slender beak ; pappus of white, silky, simple 

 hairs in many rows. (Name from the Greek, referring to its 

 medicinal character.) 



I. T. officinale (Common Dandelion). — A nearly glabrous plant, 

 with a long black tap-root, well distinguished by the above 

 characters, especially the runcinate leaves, smooth, hollow 

 peduncle, and reflexed outer bracts. The heads, when in fruit, be- 

 come globular, and are known to children, who amuse themselves 

 by blowing off the separate fruits, as "What's o'clocks, or Clocks. 

 Dandelion, from the French Dent-de-Uon, lien's tooth, is the name 

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TAR.^XACU^T nFFTCrX.iLg {Couniion DaudiUo7t). 



