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the large down to the seed], in Botany, a genus of the class 
syngenesia, order polygamia aequalis, natural order of com- 
positae semiflosculosae, cichoracese. ( Juss.) —Generic Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx: common simple, eight-leaved; leaflets lanceo¬ 
late, equal, alternately interior, all united at the base. Co¬ 
rolla : compound imbricate, uniform; corollets hermaphro¬ 
dite, many, exterior ones a little longer. Proper: one-petalled, 
ligulate, truncate, five-toothed. Stamina : filaments five, ca¬ 
pillary, very short. Anther cylindrical, tubulous. Pistil: 
germ oblong. Style filiform, length of the stamens. Stigmas 
two, revolute. Pericarp none. Calyx converging, acumi¬ 
nate, length of the seeds, ventriculose, at length reflexed. 
Seeds solitary, oblong, attenuated to both ends, angular, 
rugged, terminated by a long awl-shaped down-bearing stipe. 
Down feathered, flat, with about thirty-two rays. Receptacle 
naked, flat, rugged— Essential Character. Calyx simple: 
down feathered: receptacle naked, 
1. Tragopogon pratensis, or common yellow goat’s-beard. 
■—Calyxes nearly equal to the ray of the corollas; leaves 
entire, keeled, acuminate, dilated at the base; peduncle 
round. Root biennial. Flowers large and handsome, opening 
at day-break, and dosing before noon, unless the weather be 
cloudy.—Native of Europe and Siberia. Not unfrequent in 
Britain among grass; flowering in June. 
2. Tragopogon mutabilis, or changeable goat’s-beard.—■ 
Calyxes eight-leaved, equalling the ray of the corolla; leaves 
entire, stiff, lanceolate-acuminate. Root biennial.—'Native of 
Siberia. 
3. Tragopogon undulatus, or wave-leaved goat’s-beard.—■ 
Calyxes equalling the ray of the corolla; leaves entire, sub- 
linear, those on the stem waving very much. 
4. Tragopogon Orientalis, or Oriental goat’s-beard.—.Ca¬ 
lyxes shorter than the ray of the corolla; leaves entire, some¬ 
what waved.—Native of the Levant. 
5. Tragopogon major, or great yellow goat’s-beard.—Ca¬ 
lyxes longer than the ray of the corolla; leaves entire, stiff"; 
peduncles thickened at top; corollets rounded at the end.—• 
Native of several parts of Europe. 
6 . Tragopogon porrifolius, or purple goat’s beard.—Ca¬ 
lyxes half as long again as the ray of the corollas; leaves 
entire, stiff; peduncle thickened at top. 
7. Tragopogon crocifolius, or crocus-leaved goat’s-beard. 
—Calyxes longer than the ray of the corolla; leaves entire; 
root-leaves and peduncles villose at the base —Native of 
Italy and the south of France. Biennial. 
8 . Tragopogon villosus, or hairy goat’s beard.—Calyxes 
half as long again as the ray of the corolla ; stem and leaves 
villose. Root biennial.—-Native of Spain and Siberia. 
9. Tragopogon Dalechampii, or great-flowered goat’s- 
beard.—-Calyxes one-leafed, shorter than the corolla, un¬ 
armed ; leaves runcinate. Root perennial, thick and succulent. 
—Native of Spain, the south of France, and Barbary. 
10. Tragopogon picroides, or prickly-cupped goat’s-beard. 
—Calyxes one-leafed, shorter than the corolla, prickly; leaves 
runcinate, toothletted.—Native of the South of Europe. 
11 . Tragopogon asper, or rough goat’s-beard.—Calyxes 
shorter than the corolla, hispid; leaves entire; stem-leaves 
oblong.—Native of Montpellier. 
12. Tragopogon dandelion, or dandelion goat’s-beard.—• 
Leaves ensiform, entire, even; scapes radical.—Native of 
Virginia. 
13. Tragopogon lanatus, or woolly goat’s-beard.—Leaves 
ensiform, waved, villose; scapes radical.—Native of Pales¬ 
tine. 
14. Tragopogon Virginicus, or Virginia goat’s-beard.— 
Radical-leaves lyrate, rounded; stem-leaves undivided.— 
Native of Virginia and Canada. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are propagated 
from seeds, which should be sown in April upon an open 
spot of ground, in rows about nine or ten inches distance, 
and when the plants are come up, they should be hoed out, 
leaving them about six inches asunder in the rows. 
TRAHIGUERA, a small town of the east of Spain, in 
Valencia, with 2000 inhabitants; 1G miles north-west of 
Peniscola. 
T R A 
TRAHONA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the Valte- 
line. It is situated in a valley, to which it gives name ■ 12 
miles south of Chiavenna. 
TRAJAN (M. Ulpius Trajanus), a Roman emperor. See 
Rome. 
To TRAJE'CT, v. a. [trajectus, Latin,] To cast 
through; to throw.—If the sun’s light de trajected through 
three or more cross prisms successively, those rays which in 
the first prism are refracted more than others, are in the fol¬ 
lowing prisms refracted more than others in the same propor¬ 
tion. Newton. 
FRA'JECT, s. [trajectus, Lat.] A ferry; a passage for 
a water-carriage. 
What notes and garments he doth give thee, 
Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, 
Which trades to Venice. Shakespeare. 
TRAJE'C riON , s. [trajectio , Lat.] The act of darting 
through.—Later astronomers have observed the free motion 
of such comets as have, by a trajection through the sether, 
wandered through the coelestial or interstellar part of the uni- 
vere. Boyle.— Emission.—The trajections of such an ob¬ 
ject more sharply pierce the martyred soul of John, than 
afterwards did the nails the crucified body of Peter. Brown. 
—Transposition.—The trajection is so familiar, that I can¬ 
not but wonder that any should scruple at it. Knatchbull. 
TRAJE'CTORY, s. The orbit of a comet..—-I might 
preface to you in the words of Sir Isaac Newton, when he 
found out the trajectory of a comet. Harris. 
To TRAIL, v. a. [ trailler, Fr,] To hunt by the track; 
to draw along the ground. 
Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully; 
Trail your steel pikes. Shakespeare. 
To draw a long floating or waving body. 
What boots the regal circle on his head, 
That long behind he trails his pompous robe. 
And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? Pope. 
[Treglen, Dutch.] To draw; to drag. 
Because they shall not trail me through their streets 
Like a wild beast, I am content to go. Milton. 
To TRAIL, v. n. To be drawn out in length.—Swift 
men of foot, whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did 
hide. Chapman. 
TRAIL, Scent left on the ground by the animal pur¬ 
sued ; track followed by the hunter, 
I do think, or else this brain of mine 
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure 
As I have us’d to do, that I have found 
The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy. Shakespeare. 
Any thing drawn to length. 
From thence the fuming trail began to spread. 
And lambent glories danc’d about her head. Dry den. 
Any thing drawn behind in long undulations. 
A sudden star it shot through liquid air, 
And drew behind a radiant trail of hair Pope. 
TRAILFLAT, a parish of Scotland, united to Tinwald 
in J 650; which see. 
To TRAIN, v. a. [ trainer , French, from the German 
tragen, to draw.] To draw along. 
In hollow cube 
Training his devilish enginery. Milton . 
To draw ; to entice; to invite; to allure. 
If but twelve French 
Were there in arms, they would be as a cal! 
To train ten thousand English to their side. Shakespeare. 
To draw by artifice or stratagem. 
Oh train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note! 
To drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears. Shakspeare. 
To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise. 
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