1490 CICHORIACEAE 
p head solitary: achene slightly broadest above the middle, nearly. 2.5 
ong, about 15 = E as the pappus-bristles: pappus-scales 14-36 as long as 
the ac v a oist or dry soil, often in woods, various provinees, Fla. to Tex. 
Kans., and N. J b e sum 
6. CICHORIUM. [Tourn.] L. Perennial rigid herbs. Leaf-blades 
toothed or pinnatifid, or erisped. Heads sessile or nearly so. Involuere firm 
or rigid: outer braets spreading, the inner 
erect. Achene 5-ribbed or 5-angled. Pap- 
pus of 2 or 3 rows of seales.—About 8 
species, in the Old  World.—CHICORIES. 
SUCCORIES. 
1. C.Intybus L. Tap-root elongate, tough. 
Stem 3-15 dm. tall, rigidly wide-branched: 
blades of the stem-leaves oblong to lanceo- 
late, pinnatifid, toothed, or entire: involu- , 
er 0-12 mm. long; bracts lanceolate to 
linear, iil outer glandular-eilia Il 
sky-blue white: ligules 10-20 mm. lon 
achene 2.2. 5 mm. long.—(COMMON-CHICORY. 
BLUE-SAILORS. )— Fields, fence-rows, and A E provinees, Fla. to 
Tex., Calif., Wash., Ont., and N. S. Nat. of Eu.—(W. I.)—Sum.-fall. 
7. LYGODESMIA D. Don. Annual or perennial taulescent herbs or 
id woody plants, the stems rush-like. Leaf-blades Rar entire or re- 
ely, eod -toothed, or ike. 
Bor erect. volucre uude une 
not SP ce 6 species, North 
American. 
1. L. aphylla (Nutt.) DC. Stem erect or 
are ng, 3-8 dm. tall, solitary or tufted 
by t | 
1 ly 
rose- Spi Or ee white, 1.5-2 em. long, 
toothed at the apex: achene narrow, 10-13 mm. long, nearly as long as the 
white pappus.—(FLOWERING-STRAWS.  ROSE-RUSH.)—Dry pinelands and scrub, 
Coastal Plain, | Fla. and Ga.—Spr.-fall. 
8. NABALUS Cass. Perennial caulescent herbs. Deaf blades toothed, 
lobed, Los or divided. Heads nodding. Involucre cylindric or nearly 
so: m braets nearly A in length. Achene brace to columnar.— 
About 25 species, American and Asiatic. 
WHITE-LETTUCES. LION’S-FOOT. Diu SPIRI. 
Heads 8-18-flowered, in thyrsoid or virgate racemiform panicles, 
Achene minutely, sometimes I eure striate and also sometimes x M. s PUEDE 
involucre glabrous or nearly s 
