CICHORIACEAE 1489 
with bodies 3—4 mm. long and nad beaks, the outer about 3 mm. ong; beak- 
less.—Roadsides, lawns, and grassy places, various provinces, N Fla. to Ohio 
and Me. Nat. of Eu.—Spr. -f all 
4. KRIGIA Schreb. Annual herbs. Leaves mainly basal: blades nar- 
row, toothed or pinnatifid. Heads a -peduncled. Involucre narrow 
Cor 
5. CYNTHIA D. Don. Perennial herbs. Leaves mainly basal: blades 
narrow or broad, entire, repand, or pinnatifid. Heads long-pedun vo- 
lucre stout: bracts narrow, reflexed at maturity. Corollas Ei Ec 
of 
Achene not broadened upward. Pappus 10-15 minute scales and as many 
or more numerous barbellate bristles.—F'our species, North American. 
ened upward. Pappus o of 5 seales abeut 15 
as long as the achene and also of 5 or 10 
barbellate bristles.—One species. 
 K. virginica (L.) Willd. Plant 0.3-4 
dim. tall: ed [unn spatula ate to nearly 
linear, 2-12 em. long: involueres e less 
than 7 m mm. D ales 6-7 m ong: 
achenes fully 1.5 mm. long, finely sibbed 
Di a carolinianus (Walt.) B e ] 
—(DWARF-DANDELION.) — Open ei one 
and oe various provinces, Fla. T Tex ex., 
Ont., and Me. —Spr. 
Plant caulescent, the roots not tuber- bearing: pappus-scales not attenuate? heads 
many. 
Pappus-seales very short: stem erect, sparingly leafy: leaves 
with dila ted ‘bla des 1. C. virginica. 
PADDOR BY EIE: pde P1 e length of the achene : stem decumbent 
eclining, v : leaves with narrow blades. 2. C. montana. 
Plant PET the p tuber-bearing: pappus- -scales attenu- 
ate: heads solitary. 3. C. Dandelion. 
1. C. virginica (L.) D. Don. Stem 1-7 dm. tall: leaf-blades spatulate, 
elliptic, or oval, not elongate, entire or repand or slightly lyrate-pinnatifid: 
coarsely ribbe d.—Mo ist banks and m mea dow ws, 
ario 
to Kans., Man., and Mass.—Spr.—fal 
2. C. montana (Michx.) Standley. Stem 
1—4 dm. tall, branched, diffuse at maturity: 
lcaf blades linear to linear- 'spatulate, elon- 
gate, entire or irregularly pinnatifid: pedun 
cles usually solitary: achene d broad- 
est above the middle, 2.5-3 mm. long, l4 
long as the pappus- ‘bristles: Pappus 
scales about !4 as ne.— 
Cliffs and rocky opes in eon pu soil, 
Blue Ridge, Ga. Tenn. and N. C— 
Sum.—fa 
3. C. Dandelion (L.) DC. Scape 0.5-5 dm. tall, simple: leaf-blades spatu- 
late to linear-oblong or linear, 5-15 cm. long, entire, repand, or irregularly 
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