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Kei plant which Michaux properly compared with Leon- 
todon Taraxacum in miniature. Leaves divided down to 
cE the mid-rib, runcinate (or with the segments retrorse and 
i acute.) Calix § to 12-parted, simple. Pappus also as in 
the ar sonia May not this be Hyoseris caroliniana? of 
3. *dichotoma. Somewhat glaucous; dichotomously 
_ caulescent; leaves spathulate-linear, nearly entire, smooth, 
scapes 
Myoseris? ramosissima. P. C. Barton. Flor. Philad. Pro- 
dromus. p. 75. Has. “In the sandy fields of New Jersey 
near to Philadelphia, also in Maryland, on the Toad from 
4 York to Baltimore.”—Doctor W. P. €. Barton. v. s. Oxs. 
+ Stem diffusely caulescent, very short; scapes or peduncles 
é 6 to 12 inches long, sparsely pilose. Sete and palez of the 
pappus mostly in 5’s; seed inversely conic, brown, and 
striate; primary striz 5, converging, intermediate striz 10, 
interposed by pairs (rarely by 3’s) shorter than the pri- 
mary, and coalescing at their base. 
4. montana. Hyoseris montana. Mich. Flor. Am. 
_5. Dandelion. Glaucous and smooth; leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, incisely rarely and remotely toothed; 
Yeot bulbous, pendulous; scape 1-fowered: Has. In Vir- 
ginia. Flower equal in size with that of A. amplexi- 
caulis, the pappus double, and almost equally numerous. 
‘T'roximon Dandelion, Persoon. 2. p. 360. Hioseris angusti- 
one Mich. 2. p. 87. 
6. amplesxicaulis. Hyoseris amplexicaulis. Mich. H. Pre- 
nanthoides, Willd. Glaucous; leaves oblong-ovate, radical 
ones subdentate, spathulate; scape subbifoliate, simple or 
bifid, branches 2 or 3 flowered; flowers long pedunculate, 
fastigiate; pilose pappus numerous. Has. Common 
throughout the eastern and western states. Flowers 
orange-yellow, as in the other species. Calix simple, 
about 12-parted, sometimes glandulously pilose at the base. 
Cals Ppappus external, S-parted; pilose about 24 sca- 
and deciduous sete. Unquestionably a congener 
with euhtnen above. — 
Hitherto a North American genus and nearly allied to 
Hyoseris. : 
534, TROXIMON. Gariner. 
 Galix oblong, conic, many-leaved, leaflets un- 
my it ve imbricated. Pag a naked as uieaticn- 
