SUNFLOWER FAMILY 585 
— below the heads even in fruit; phyllaries 8 or 9, rarely 13, broadly va teh gat acuminate, 
shor than or rarely slightly exc ceeding the chrome- -yellow ligules ; marginal achenes striate, 
ends or r pacagenri usually dark brown, the inner paler, 20-25 mm. long, Seely tapering to 
the beak; Papp 
Fields and w aii » Sparingly adven in western Washington and Oregon to Shasta County, Cali- 
fornia, and more hy deel eo east of 4 Coctade seh Pll hag seberialis in Uni ion an og Wallowa y sense vey Oregon; 
also northern Arizona. Widely distributed in Canada and eastern United States. Native of Europe. June—Sept. 
2. Tragopogon porrifolius L. Salsify or Oyster Plant. Fig. 6014. 
pape evince Sp, PI. 789. ‘1753. 
mple from a — aproot, 5-12 dm. high. Leaves tapering uniformly to the apex, 
dilated and ‘chaping at base; peduncles much inflated and hollow from 2.5~4 cm. below the heads S" 
phyllaries 8-9, rarely 12, dir nia te, pyar usually much longer than the outer ligules ; 
fenles Ail chee about 3-4 m m. long, the outer ones covered with scale-like tubercles, espe- 
cially on the ribs, the beak ene longer seat the body and abruptly narrowed; plumose branche Ss 
of the —— -bristles ee erage t- 
Naturalized as a weed in the Pacific Sas a eS less frequently, eastward across the continent. Native 
of the Old World. en Nov 
6011. Anisocoma acaulis ae Tragopogon pr: 
6012. Atrichoseris platyphylla . Tragopogon pera 
