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Tre CICHORIACE. 
TARAXACUM, Juss. 
Involucre campanulate or oblong, bracts in 2 rows; the inner 
-most linear and parallel, the outer shorter, spreading or cella 
Receptacle without scales, convex, dotted. Florets all ligulate. Achenes 
round or angular, wingless, wit tha long beak, which is very slender, 
brittle, cylindrical, and furnished at = base <b toothlike ruben 
Pappus hairlike, very soft, in many row 
T. Dens-leonis, Desf; DC., Prod. vii. 145; Ber Hh in ie Austr. 
iii. 680. The European ‘Dandesan. A perennial wit tter tap 
—- Leaves radical, varying from linear- nee oate ad os entire 
less, rarely excee ing 6 in., bearing a single pratt iar Ananda 
Involucre of several nearly equal bracts with some smaller oul 
mbricate ones often recurved. Florets yellow, all ligulate. Achenes 
scarcely compressed, striate, tapering into a slender beak two or thre 
times their own length, and bearing a pappus of numerous simple 
hairs.—Benth. L.c. 
Hab.: Toowoomba Swamp. 
This plant has become naturalised on the Darling Downs. Of the roots ‘ 
this plant, which have long been — os medicine, Dr. Lindley says :— 
fusion, decoction, and extract of the root are tonic, and in la 
Sas a P aiutetie. Tn the hepatic ba of persons 
TRAGOPOGON, Linn. 
Involucre cylindric or narrowly eampanulate; bracts 1 a 
longer or shorter than the florets, herbaceous, acuminate, bases some 
nate 
times conna Oo ou nes ce t or convex, . 
margins of the pits often cartilaginous. Achenes slender, terete, 
ngled, 5 to 10-ribbed, ribs h or muricate, basa Je brat! 
ea 
Biennial or perennial rally. juioel herbs. Leaves re ae 
clasping, narrow, quite entire. Heads terminal, on ee é | 
large, homogamous, yellow, blue, or purple ; florets all ligulate. = 
T. porrifolium, Linn.; DC., Prod. vii. 113; Marthe in Fl. a0) 
in. 680. The Salsify or Salsafy of Europe. A glabro s bien | 
tat of 1 to 2 ft., with a taproot. Radical zee pate leaves | i 
ass-like, entire, 2» shortly dilated = _ g at the 
mei ones shorte broader. Pedu pe ree © shick ed if 
summit, each with a ‘aie a head of pu se sei Involucre ® 
12 nearly equal bracts longer than the florets chenes nal 
Order ant Cinna 
LUCUMA, J 2 
L. Unmackiana (n ap) ok (After ia ‘Hon. Theodore Un 
Tree of medium | gee hard, dark-coloured, about iin. a 
deeply fissured in straight lines about }-in. apart. Woodof &™ 
