Tragopogon.] coMPOsiTiE. 281 



with raised jagged margins. Pappus a little longer than the tube, rough, fea- 

 tli^Ti jointed and sessile. Achenium angular, beautifully furrowed or wrinkled 

 transversely. 



XXXII. Opoeinia, Don. Hawkbit. 



"Involucre subimbricated, exterior scales much smaller, in 

 several rows. Receptacle punctured. Frioit attenuated, uniform. 

 Pappus of all the fruit in 1 row, feathery, dilated at the base." — 

 Bab. Man. 



1. O. autumnalis, Don. Autumnal Hawkbit. " Scape scaly 

 upwards, leaves lanceolate toothed or pinnatifid nearty glabrous, 

 peduncles swoUen beneath the involucres." — Br. Fl. Fl. Dan. 

 xii. t. 1996 (var. with deeply pinnatifid leaves). Apargia, Br. Fl. 

 p. 202. Hedypnois, E. B. t. 830. Oporinia, Don. 



/3. Leaves hispid ; calyx hairy ; stems spreading, prostrate or ascending. 



In meadows, pastures, and on dry banks, &c. ; frequent. Fl. August. !{.. 



ji. In a chalky cornfield above Sandown bay, near the Culver cliff. 



XXXIII. Teagopogon, Linn. Goat's-beard. 



" Achenes longitudinally striated, beaked. Pappus feathery. 

 Receptacle naked. Involucre simple, of 8 — -10 scales united at the 

 base."— jBr. Fl 



1. T. pratensis, L. Yellow Goat's-beard. Go-to-bed-at-noon. 

 " Grlabrous, involucre about as long or twice as long as the corol- 

 las, leaves undivided acuminated from a dilated base channelled, 

 peduncles slightly thickened at the very summit." — Br. Fl. p. 201. 

 E.B.i. 434. 



p. minor, Leight. " Involucre twice as long as the corollas." — Br. Fl. T. 

 minor. Fries. 



The var. /3. only. In meadows, pastures, by waysides, borders of fields, woods, 

 and along hedges ; not uncommon. jF/. June, July. i^r. July, August. $. 



E. Med. — By the footway over the fields from Shanklin to Cook's castle, and 

 not uncommon iu pastures between Shanklin and Appuldurcombe. [In hedges 

 near Ryde, in several places. Dr. Bell-Sailer, Edrs.] 



W. Med. — In the Lenten Pit, Carisbrooke. A troublesome weed on the grass- 

 plats at Thorley vicarage. 



;8. minor.* Plant quite smooth and glabrous in every part excepting the involucre 

 and florets. Root whitish, brown externally, long, simple, tapering and flexile, 

 fleshy and abounding in a viscid milky juice,f biennial ? Stem 1 or several, firm, 

 erect, wavy, usually about 2 or 2^ feet in height, the lateral ones ascending or 

 sometimes even decumbent at base, rounded, leafy, striated, fistulose, pale green 

 or partly streaked or clouded with purple, often forked, branched from or near the 

 base; the branches erect or more or less forked, branched and flexuose like tlie 

 stem itself. Leaves numerous, alternate, pale green and somewhat glaucous, ses- 

 sile, those at the root and lower part of the stem marcescent, the larger a foot or 

 upwards in length, those on the higher part of the stem and branches shorter, all 



' [The author has described var. /3. this form only being found in the island. 

 —Edrs:\ 



t This juice, as well as the substance of the root itself, is without any bitter- 

 ness of flavour in the wild plant. 



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