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Composite. 
— FIs yellow ........ 2 
2. FIs gen. dark yellow and distinctly longer than the 
invol.-ls. Heads closing after midday towards 2 p.m. 
Marginal achenes, in their normal state, with spiny 
scales. T. pratensis auct. helv. not L., T. Schuttleworthii 
God.—Meadows; everywhere. 5 . orientals L. 1306. 
— FIs light yellow, shorter, rarely as long as the invol.- 
ls. Heads smaller, closing about 11 a.m. . . S 
8. FIs scarcely half as long as the invol.-ls; the 
latter edged with rose. Peduncles as in the last, scarcely 
thickened at the time of flowering. Stem often taller 
and more branchy. Ls narrower. Anther-tube entirely 
blackish-brown (in the last usually only streaked with 
black). T. minor Fr.?, T. Pomaretii F. Schultz.—Road¬ 
sides, slopes, hills, sometimes in company with the last; 
S.! and probably also in other places, but neglected. 5 
dubius Vill. 1307. 
— FIs about as long as the invol.-ls. Peduncles as in the 
last, but heads larger. Achenes.?— Mountain 
meadows above Yevey with T. orientals! Chur: Briigg, 5 
pratensis L. 1307a. 
— FIs shorter than the invol.-ls. Peduncles already much 
thickened like a club at the time of flowering. 
Achenes about 15 mm long, grayish yellow; those of the 
margin provided with spiny scales; beak compressed- 
angular, thickened at the top.—Road-sides, hills; G. 
W. T. 5 . major Jacq. 1308. 
344. Scorzonera. Salsify. XIX, 10. 
1. Rt-stock with a thick tuft (formed of bristly fibres of 
the ls of former years). Stem gen. 1-headed, with 1 — 3 
scale-like Is.—Yar.: with ls only 1—2 mm (v. stenophylla 
Gaud.). — Rocks; Tess., lower Rhone - valley, Saleve, 
Yuache. 5 . . . . austriaca Willd. 1309. 
— Rt-stock bare above or crowned with lanceolate (not 
fibrous) scales ........ 2 
2. Stem bearing 1—3 heads, with 1 — 3 small ls. Outer invol.- 
ls oval-lanceolate, acuminate, but the point itself rather 
obtuse. S, plantaginea and macrorrhiza Gaud.—Marshy 
or damp fields; very widely scattered; G. T. V. J. Z. 
A, S. 5 . . '. . . . . hiimilis L. 1310. 
— Stem bearing 2—several heads, leafy in the lower part. 
Outer invol.-ls triangular, subacute.—b. montana Mut. 
Ls narrower, linear-lanceolate or linear. — Cultivated as a 
vegetable; b. Aostathal. 6 ... f hispanica L. 1311 
