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nanthes Sm., E. B. 457- — St. erect, a foot ln"li, smooth, round, 
hollow, h’lorets bright yellow. Fruit black. — Banks and old 
walls. A.? (P. Sm.) VII. E. I. 
46. Tara.xacum Juss. 
1. T. officinale (Wigg.) ; 1. ruueinate toothed, fr. lincar-ob- 
ovatc blunt ami scjtiamosely murieated at the summit longitudi- 
nally striated with a long beak. — Stalks single-headed, radical. 
Florets yellow. L. all radical, very variable, glabrous or slightly 
hispid. The following varieties may be noticed since they are 
considered as species by DeCaudollc, but they are quite connected 
by intermediate forms. — I. Outer iiivolueral scales reflexed or pa- 
j tent. — a. genuinum-, outer scales linear dejlexed, fr. yellow its 
I uj)per half murieated, glabrous or woolly at the crown of the root, 
i 1. runcinate broad. Leontodon taraxacum Sm., E. B. 510. — 
I j3. T. lavigatum (DC.); outer scales erecto-patent ovate, fr. red- 
I dish-yellow murieated at the summit, beak with a thickened and 
I coloured base, 1. runciuate-jiinnatifid with unequal teeth. — y. 
\ T. erijthrospermum (DC.); outer scales lanceolate adpressed or 
I patent, fr. bright red murieated at the summit, beak with a 
f thickened and coloured base, 1. runcinatc-pinnatifid with unequal 
teeth and intermecUate smaller ones. T.lcevigatum. Bab. Lower- 
most 1. sometimes obovate and dentate not runcinate when it 
becomes T. obovatum DC. — II. Outer scales adpressed.— 5. 
L. palustre (Sm.) ; outer scales ovate-acuminate, fr. pale yellow 
or brown murieated at the summit, 1. oblong and entire sinuate- 
dentate or runcinate ; or outer scales ovate-lanceolate or (L. lep- 
tocephalum R.) lanceolate. E. B. 553. — Very common, y. in dry 
places, 5. in bogs. P. III. — X. Dandelion. 
47. Crepis Linn. 
* Fruit gradually contracted into a long beak. Barkhausia 
Moench. 
1. C. taraxacifolia (Thuil.) ; 1. rough runcinate-pinnatifid, 
heads erect, involucre bristly and downy covering half the pappus 
its outer scales ovate-lanceolate v>ith a membranous margin, 
bracts herbaceous, fr. all equally beaked. — Root fusiform. St. 
1 — 2 feet high, hispid, angular, furrowed, purple below, at length 
branched, corymbose. L. mostly radical lyrate-runcinate with 
retrorse teeth, or deeply pinnatihd with the terminal lobe large. 
Stem 1. few, sessile, clasping, deeply pinnatiiid and toothed. 
Florets yellow', purple beneath. Fr. narrowing very gradually 
into a setaceous beak of about its own length, ribs rough. — 
Limestone districts. B. VI. VII. E. 
[2. C. setosa (Hall.); 1. runcinate-dentate or lyrate-runcinate, 
st.-l. sagittate entire or inciso-dentate below, heads erect, inv. 
