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L E O N T O D O N paluftre.
MarJJi Dandelion.
S T N G E N E S I A Polygamia-aqualis.
G en. Char. Recept. naked. Calyx imbricated with
flaccid fcales. Down Ample, on a footftalk.
Spec. Char. Outer fcales of the calyx fhorter, upright,
ovate. Leaves finuated and toothed, nearly
fmooth.
S yn . Leontodon paluftre. Lyons. Fafc.
L. Taraxacon. With. 6 7 9 . Hudf.v,39 5.
I n the prefent volume, t. 510, we have exprefled an opinion
that this plant was merely a variety of the common Dandelion;
but fince that article was written, a more accurate examination
of wild fpecimens, as well as of others raifed from feed fent from
Cambridgefhire by the Rev. Mr. Hemfted, has convinced us of
our error, and we therefore lofe no time to acknowledge it.
The Marfli Dandelion grows generally on moors or wet
commons. It was originally ohferved on Hinton Moor,
Cambridgefliire, and has been found on the Lower Common
at Heydon, Norfolk, by the Rev. Mr. Bryant, flowering in
June or July.
Root perennial, tap-fhaped. Whole herb more {lender and
delicate than the common fpecies. Leaves very various, {lightly
hairy, often quite fmooth, fcarcely runcinate, or with their
teeth pointing backwards, but more or lefs deeply pinnatifid and
dentate. Flower bright yellow, externally ftriped with red or
purple. Calyx fcales gradually fmaller outwards, and all erebt,
or rather clofely prefled to each other, the lower ones ovate,
not linear. Head of feeds about half the fize of L. Taraxacum.
The calyx fcales being none of them reflexed, and the leaves
being lefs runcinate, diftinguifli it from the moft ftarved varieties
of the Taraxacum, fuch as the j3 of Hudfon figured by Petiver»
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