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Imports and prices. — About 50.000 pounds of lappa or burdock root 

 are imported annually, and the best root is said to come from Belgium, 

 where great care is exercised in its collection. 



The price of the root ranges from 3 to 8 cents per pound, and that 

 of the seed from 5 to 10 cents. 



DANDELION. 



Taraxacum taraxacum (L. ) Karst. (Taraxacum officinale Weber.) 





Fig. 3.— Dandelion ( Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst). (An unusually fibrous root.) 



Other common names. — Blow-ball, cankerwort, doon-head-clock, 

 fortune-teller, horse go wan. Irish daisy, yellow gowan, one o'clock. 

 (Fig. 3.) 



Range and habitat. — Dandelion is distributed as a weed in all civi- 



