COMPOSITE. 143 
Leaves dull-green, often slightly glaucous, very deeply pin- 
natifid, usually rimcinate, with tho lobes triangular-strapshapcd, 
rather distant. Inner phyllavics gibbous and mostly with a flat 
stiapshaped appendage a little below the apex ; the outer ones 
lanceolate, spreading. Achenes dark-red, spinulosc-muricated at 
tlit^ apex. 
Var. 7, hcrhjalinn. 
K Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCV. Fig. 3. 
T. tevigatam, D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 146. Gr. & Godr. FL de Fr. Vol. II. p. 316. 
T. officinale, var. Taraxacoides, Koch, Svn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. i. p. 492. Reich, fd. 
1. c. p. 25. 
Leaves dull - green, deeply pinnatifid, with triangular - strap- 
shaped distant lobes. Inner phyllarics gibbous and mostly with a 
Hat strapshaped appendage a little below the apex ; outer phyl- 
larics ovate-lanceolate, loosely adpressed. Achenes olive, spinulose- 
muricated at the apex. 
Var. o, palustre. 
Plate DCCCIV. 
BUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1252. 
Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCVI. 
T. palustre, D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 148. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 317. 
T. officinale, var. lividum, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 492. 
Leoutodon palustre, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 553. 
Leaves dull - green sinuate - dentate, pinnatifid or runcinate- 
pinnatifid with triangular broad approximate lobes. Inner phyl- 
larics simple at the apex ; outer ones ovate, adpressed or spreading. 
Achenes olive or dull-yellow, spinous-muricated at the apex. 
In meadows, pastures, fields, &c. Very common, and univer- 
sally distributed. Var. 3 on chalk-downs, and in sandy places ; 
var. 7 in sandy places ; var. 8 in moist situatious, and apparently 
rare in the South of England. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 
3, early Summer ; o, late Summer and Autumn. 
Plant with a long tap-root passing insensibly into a simple or 
many-headed rhizome. Leaves in var. a oblanceolate, the earliest 
ones both in this and the other varieties generally undivided, and 
merely toothed, but the later ones are generally pinnatifid with 
broadly triangular lobes pointing backwards, toothed on the side 
towards the apex of the leaf, entire on that towards the base, and 
toothed and entire on the space between the teeth. Scapes leafless, 
numerous, fragile, Lollow, decumbent, ascending or erect, 2 to 15 
