
PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 287 
DANDELION. 
Tardxacum Tardxacum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Chicory. Yellow. Scentless. General to the Rockies. A pril-October. 
Flower-heads: roundish, of innumerable strap-shaped flowers. Lzvolucre : 
closing after blooming until the fluffy ball is ready to mature and be blown 
- away by the wind, when it opens, turns downward, and bears up the pappus. 
Leaves: at the base; much cut. Stem: hollow. /uice: milky. 
There seems to be something pathetic about the dandelion 
as it grows old. Gradually it is deprived of its golden rays 
and upon its stalk is left a little cloud of gossamer. It is then 
whorled aloft and away, tornand scattered upon thorny bushes 
and dashed into angry streams by pitiless winds. Or the chil- 
dren blow it to tell what o’clock it is. There are usually four 
good blows ina ball of down and this fact has won for it the 
name of “four o’clock,”’ each blow signifying an hour. The 
plants are eaten asa pot herb, and their medicinal properties 
are generally known and appreciated. 
FALL DANDELION. 
Ledntodon autumnatle. 
Or little dandelion, as it 1s sometimes called, extends its 
bloom throughout the summer and autumn, On a nearer 
acquaintance we find it has rather different habits from our 
early dandelion but is very much like the hawkweeds. Its 
Greek name refers to the medicinal properties of the root. 
PLANTAIN-LEAF EVERLASTING. [TOUSE-EAR 
EVERLASTING, 
Antennarta plantagintfolia. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Contposite. White. Scentless. Mostly north. March-May. 
Flower-heads : of tiny tubular flowers clustered closely together in a cory); 
sterile and fertile flowers growing on different plants. Leaves: those of the 
stem, lanceolate; pointed; soft; silky underneath ; those of the base, oval; on 
petioles; nerved. Stem: sometimes approaching one foot high; covered with 
a soft down. The plant spreads by runners. 
In rocky fields and on dry slopes we find this everlasting. 
