composite. 139 
Var. 3, minor. 
Plate DCCXCIX. 
'. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1513. 
Ic. Fl. Germ, vt llelv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXC. Fig. 2. 
T. minor. Fr. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 195. Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. ii. p. 241 ■ 
Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 5. 
Florets about half the length of the phyllaries. Stem usually 
taller and more slender than in var. a. 
Var. y, grandijlorus. 
Plate DCCC. 
', Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1514. 
h. la Fl. Germ, et llelv. Vol. XIX Tab. MCCCLXC. Fig. 1 (?). 
T. {aatensis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 434. 
T. orientalis, Linn. (?) et Auct. (1). 
Florets considerably longer than the phyllaries. 
In meadows, pastures, and waste places. Common, and gene- 
rally distributed throughout England ; more rare in Scotland, 
where it lias been found as far North as the counties of Aberdeen 
and Sutherland. Var. is the most frequent form, especially in 
Scotland. Var. y is apparently rare : I have found it at Sydenham, 
Kent ; on the chalk hills near Betchworth, Surrey ; and have seen 
it from near Cobham, Kent. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Root a long tapering tap-root with white milky juice. Radical 
leaves resembling those of garlic or a narrow-leaved leek, dilated 
and somewhat sheathing at the base, keeled beneath, channelled 
above, with midrib hollow and white ; stem-leaves much dilated 
I amplexicaul at the base, then suddenly acuminated into linear 
points. Stem branched, the upper portion bare of leaves for a 
considerable distance below the fruiting anthodes, immediately 
beneath which they are suddenly and very slightly dilated. Peri- 
cline lanceolate -oblong in bud, lanceolate-ovoid after flowering; 
phyllaries all equal, 8, in 2 rows, narrowly-lanceolate, flat. Florets 
very variable in length, yellow, sometimes streaked with brown. 
Anthodes 1J to 1} inch long in fruit. Achcnes olive-yellow, the 
tral ones generally smooth, the outer ones muricatcd with small 
rated scales; but sometimes they are all nearly smooth, and 
sometimes they are all more or less muricatcd ; the beak also varies 
in length, sometimes a little shorter, and sometimes a little longer 
than the achene, with a hairy ring at the summit. Pappus plumose 
