1030 COMPOSITAE. | Taraxacum. 
Anthers sagittate at the base, not tailed. Achenes cylindric or fusiform, 
longitudinally grooved, muricate, narrowed at the base, above drawn out 
into a long and slender beak. Pappus-hairs copious, simple, white. 
A genus of from 40 to 50 species, mainly found in Europe and Asia; much rarer 
in North America, Africa, and Australia. The single New Zealand species is also 
found in temperate South America. 
1. T. magellanieum Comm. in Schultz Bipont. in Flora xxxymi (1855) 
122.—Very 
few-headed 
all radical 
membrano 
outline, na 
pinnatifid, 
lobe much 
of flower1 
glabrescen 
tinged with red, and the margins more or less Memoranvus;>amner- sere 
in a single row, narrow-linear, strict, erect; outer series in several rows, 
broader, ovate or nearly so, acute, erect and appressed. Florets numerous. 
Achenes linear-oblong, grooved, muricate-—Handel-Mazetti Monog. Taraz. 
(1907) 56. TT. officinale var, palustus T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 361. 
T. Dens-leonis Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Yel. i (1853) 152: Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
165 (in part, but not of Lam.). . officinale Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
o87 (in part, but not of Wigg.). Gfotrat— ? 
NORTH AND SovurH IsLanps, Srpewart Istanp, CHarHam Istanps: From Mercury 
Bay and the East Cape southwards, not uncommon in mountain districts, rarer in the 
lowlands, ascends to 4000 ft. Dandelion. November—February. 
Also a native of South America, stretching from the Andes of Chile to Patagonia, 
Fuegia, and the Falkland Islands. It has also been reported from Australia. In New 
Zealand it is usually confused with the common English Dandelion (Taraxacum vulgare), 
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followed the 
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alternate or radical, entire or toothed or pinnatifid ; cauline often amplex- 
icaul. Heads peduncled, in terminal irregularly branched corymbs or 
panicles, homogamous. Involucre ovoid, usually becoming conical after 
flowering ; bracts imbricated in several series, the outer smaller, Receptacle 
flat, naked. Florets all ligulate. Anthers shortly tailed at the base. 
Achenes ovoid or ellipsoid, more or less compressed, ribbed and often trans- 
versely rugose, not beaked. Pappus-hairs copious, in many series, soft, 
white, simple. 
Species from 40 to 45, mostly natives of the temperate regions of the Northern 
Hemisphere ; a few spread over the whole world, but probably naturalized in many 
districts. One of the New Zealand species is endemic, the two others are cosmopolitan. 
