880 SYNGENESIA. iEQUALIS. Tragopogon 
FRUSTRANEA. 
CENTAU'REA. Recept. bristly : Down hair-like, or feathery : 
Florets of the circumference tubular, (dilated, without 
stamens or style. E.) 
NECESSARIA. 
CALEN'DULA. Recept. naked: Down none: Seeds mem¬ 
branous. 
[Tussilago Farfara, Erigeron.] 
iEQUALIS* 
TRAGOPCVGON.^ Receptacle naked: Calyx simple : Down 
feathery, pedicellate. 
T. praten'sis. Calyx as long as the rays of the blossom: (leaves 
entire, keeled, acuminate, dilated at the base: E.) fruit-stalk 
cylindrical. 
{E. Bot. 434. £.)— Ludw. 49 —Kniph. 9— FI. Dan. 906 — Lonic. i. 95. 4 — 
Fuchs. 821— J. B. ii. 1059. 1—Trag. 280— Dod. 256. 2 —Loh. Ohs. 297. 
2, and Ic. i. 550. 2 — Ger. Em. 735. 2 — Pet. 15. 6 — H. Ox. vii. row 1. 1— 
Matth. 537— Ger. 595. 2. 
Blossoms yellow, showy, two inches over, opening early and closing before 
noon. (The feathery down of the seeds assumes an enlarged cobweb-like 
spherical form distended by the pedicels. E.) Whole plant smooth, stifb 
strong, upright. Leaves very long and narrow, tapering. Calyx , leaves 
purplish at the edge. Anthers purple. Pollen yellow. Seeds crooked. 
Receptacle, having glandular substances in the little hollows at the base 
of each floret, which, when the blossoms fall, turn brown, the receptacle 
remaining white. {Root spindle-shaped, milky, sweet. Stems a foot and 
half high, often tinged with purple. Leaves alternate, embracing the 
stem, keeled, sharp-pointed, widening at the base. FI. Brit. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward remarks that in Norfolk the calyx invariably exceeds the blossom ; 
Mr. Stackhouse observes the same in Cornwall. E.) 
Yellow Goats’-beard. (Welsh: Barf yr afrfelen. E.) Meadows and 
pastures. B. June.t 
T. porrifoTius. Calyx half as long again as the rays of the blossom: 
leaves entire, stiff* and straight: fruit-stalks thickening upwards. 
* (From Tpayos, a goat; and nwywv, a beard ; which the down of the seed somewhat 
resembles. E.) 
Before the stems shoot up, the roots, boiled like Asparagus, have the same flavour, 
and are nearly as nutritious. Cows, sheep, and horses eat it, Swine devour it greedily. 
