<J 44 Tragopogon. 
lac, vafculo exceptum & exficcatum , abit in maflam 
rubro-fufcam , gummi refinofam, inter digitos tenacem, 
fapore debili, fubftyptico , in aqua folubilem : folutio- 
ne fangvinea. Atque hxc caufla eft, cur radix recens, in 
taleolas fe£ta , & in aere relifta , fubito rubefcat ; fed 
tit hoc eviretur, expedit taleolas ft£hs ftatim in a- 
quam frigidam immitrere, quas fuccum abforber, ipfa 
rubicunda evadens. 
OBS . 2. Radices primo autumno vel fubfequenre ve- 
re effodiendse, antequam in caulem excrelcant; poftea 
nil valent. 
OBS. 3. Folia, primo vere nuper erupta, refecan- 
tur prope radicem , & inter laturas lapidas locum 
tenent. 
401. SCORZONERA hifpanica. Linn. Sp. pl 1112. 
Kniph Bot. orig. cent. 7. 
Scorzonera major hifpanica 1. Clus. Hift. 2. 
P> 2 31 - 
Scorzonera £ viperaria. Blackw. Herb. t. 406* 
Scorzonera. Dod. Pempt . 256. Lob. Hift . 
Pbarm . SCORZONERPE Radix. 
Locus . Europa. Colitur in hortis. Perennis. 
FORMA, rec . Radix fufiformi-cylindrica, fpi- 
thamsea, defcendens, extus veflita nigro cortice 
& rugofo: rugis annularibus, parce fibrillofa; par- 
encymate carnofo , albo ; poft fe&ionem trans- 
verfaiem notato centro medullari orbiculato, am- 
plo, ftriato: lixiis radiantibus, obfoletis; obdudto 
annulo incarnato , punctato ; corticali parte al- 
ba, lactelcente. Sicc. Radix in officinis ledta in ta- 
leoias longitudinales occurrit , extus rubras , in- 
tus albas, flexili-fragiles. 
PROPR. rec . Odor nullus. Sapor aquofo- 
fucculentus , fubinfipidus. Siccata radix, confcis- 
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