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greatly and gradually thickened upwards beneath the anthodes. 
Florets purplish -lilac. Achcnes beaked, with the beak about as 
tang as the achenc, ribbed, the outer ones strongly squamous- 
muricated. Pappus of all the florets with plumose hairs. 
Var. a, sativus. 
Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXXXVII. Figs. 2, 3 
£ Eng. Bot. No. 638. 
Florets about as long as the phyllaries. 
Var. 0, parviflorus. 
Florets about half the length of the phyllaries. 
In meadows and marshy places. Rather rare, and probably 
introduced in many of its stations, though possibly it is native in 
the South of England. Most of the specimens which have come 
under my notice belong to var. a ; var. 1 have seen from Tintern, 
Monmouthshire, and the specimen figured in " English Botany" 
which represents this was gathered near St. Vincent's Rocks, 
Bristol. 
England. Biennial. Summer. 
This plant has much of the general habit of T. pratensis, but is 
usually much larger, sometimes 2 or 3 feet high; the stem-leaves taper 
more gradually ; but the most striking difference is the thickening of 
the peduncles beneath the anthodes, which are 1^ to 2 inches long 
in fruit. Florets variable in length, as in T. pratensis, apparently 
darker purple in var. than in var. a, which is that which is gene- 
rally cultivated. Fruit with the beak a little longer than the 
achene, the latter with the scales much more prominent and more 
decidedly disposed in longitudinal lines than in T. pratensis. Plant 
glabrous, and slightly glaucous. 
Salsify. 
French, Salsifis & Feuilles de Poireau. German, Lauchblcittrige Hafervmrz. 
This species possesses all the properties of the former one, and by many is supposed 
i more agreeable vegetable. It is eaten as a salad, and is also cultivated in gardens 
t'-r l.uiling or stewing. The leaves, as the trivial name imports, resemble those of a 
md its purple flower is surrounded by an involucrum which closes in the morning, 
as in the yellow Goat's-beard. 
Tribe III.— CREPOIDE.E. 
Pappus composed of filiform hairs, which are not plumose, nor 
dilated at the base. 
