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8 BEAUTIFUL FLOWEKS OF KASHMIR [Plate 33
Scorzonera purpurea, Linn. Purple Scorzonera.
Glabrous or sparsely woolly. Eoot cylindric, neck densely
fibrous. Stem slender, erect, leafy, often woolly below the
heads. Leaves narrowly linear, shorter than the stem, radical
leaves in the lower part slightly hairy, otherwise glabrous,
stem-leaves stalkless, half-stem-clasping. Heads 1-4, cylindric.
Involucral bracts hairy, outermost egg-shaped, inner lanceshaped,
shorter than the purple flowers. Achenes angled, on
the angles often slightly tubercular-wrinkled. Pappus dirty -
white, longer than the achene.
Locality. Banehal, 8,000 ft.
Distribution. Europe, Central and S. Eussia, Asia Minor,
Siberia, Kashmir.
TRAGOPOGON, Linn.
The Goat's Beard.
(From the Greek tragos, a goat, and pogon, a beard, referring
to the long pappus.)
1. Achenes f to nearly 1 in. ;
beak as long as
or shorter than the body, very slender ... T. pratense.
2. Achenes \ in. ;
beak short, not slender ... T. gracile.
Fig. 4. Tragopogon pratense, Linn. Goat's Beard, Buck's
Beard, Shepherd's Clock, Go-to-bed-at-noon, Jack-by-thehedge,
Joseph's Flower, Nap-at-noon.
Erect, more or less grass-like. Stem 1-2 ft. high, usually
branched and leafy, bluish green, smooth, tall, with a milky
juice. Leaves linear, tapering to a long point, wavy, stemclasping,
^-J in. diameter about the middle, with swollen
sheaths. Flower-heads yellow stalk hardly thickened under
;
the head. Involucral bracts about 8, as long as or longer
than the flowers. Achenes f to nearly 1 in. long with a long
beak, rough, beak as long as or shorter than the body.
Pappus hair has stalked feathery down.
Flowers and Fruits. May.
Locality. Srinagar Gadsar ; ; Dachigam Eakh on right bank
of stream along road ;
near Shirazia Bagh.
Distribution. W. Himalaya and W. Tibet, up to 14,000 ft.,
westward to the Atlantic.