. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1770 TARAXACUM Hooker would recUice them to about 6, and others would retain 25 or more. Taraxacums are dis- tinguished by baring large many- flowered ligulate yellow heads soli- tary on naked and hollow scapes; involucre with one inner series of erect narrow bracts and outer calyx - like spreading sometimes re
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1770 TARAXACUM Hooker would recUice them to about 6, and others would retain 25 or more. Taraxacums are dis- tinguished by baring large many- flowered ligulate yellow heads soli- tary on naked and hollow scapes; involucre with one inner series of erect narrow bracts and outer calyx - like spreading sometimes reflexed bracts ; pappus simple and capillary, borne on a slender beak terminating a fusiform elon- gated angled akene; flowers open- ing in sunshine. The common Dandelion is Ta- raxacum officinale, known also as T. Dens-Ien}iis. h>ee Davdelion. It varies immensely in stature and form of leaves, as shown in Figs. 2465-68. For history, see Sturte- vant, Proc. 6th Meeting Soc. Prom. Agr. Sci., and Amer. Nat., Jan., 1880. For an account of the red seeded Dandelion, T. erythro- spfermum, see Feruald, July, 1895:32;:{. From the com- mon Dandelion it differs in hav- ing smaller sulfur-yellow heads, smaller and very deeply cut leaves, oiiter involucral scales not reflexed and somewhat glau- cous; akenes red or red-brown and shorter beaked ; pappus dirty white. It is known to oc- cur in New England. New York and Pa.; perhaps naturalized from Europe. l. H. B. TARE, TARES. To the mod- ern English farmer the word "Tare " means the c o m m o n veteh, Vicia sativa, although Tare is also applied loosely to other species of Vicia and Lathyrus, particularly Vicia hirsiita. The celebrated pas- sage in Matthew xiii, 25, "His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,' refers prob- ably to the darnel, LoUum te- mulentnm. The original Greek word in Matthew is Zizania, a name which in botany refers to the wild rice. Darnel belongs to the grass family and its seeds were lon
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