412 COMPOSITE. Krigia. 



3. CfNTniA. Caulescent or acaulescent perennials, glaucescent, compara- 

 tively large-flowered : involucre of the preceding section : akenes less turbinatf, 

 of 10 to 15 smaller and more squamellate oblong paleaj and 15 or 20 slender 

 capillary bristles. Cynthia, Don in Edinb. Phil. Jour. xii. o05 ; DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 8!) ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Adopogon, Neck. Elem. i. 55. 



KL. Dandelion, NITT. Scapigerous, or at leugth leafy-stemmed only next the ground: 

 crown bearing oval or globose tubers on filiform stolons: leaves lanceolate or almost linear, 

 from denticulate to laciuiate-lobed or piunatifid : scapes 6 to 18 inches high, naked : head 

 about half-inch high. Gen. ii. 127; Ell. Sk. ii. 267. Tragopogon Dandelium,~Li. Spec. ed. 2, 

 ii. 1111. Hijuseris major, Walt. Car. 194. //. aiujnxt (folia, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. Troxinum 

 Dandelion, Fers. Syn. ii. 360. Cynthia Dandelion & C. Boscii, DC. Prodr. vii. 89. C. li/rntu, 

 Nutt. Jour. Acad. Fliilad. vii. 69. Kriyia Caroliniana, Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 100, a 

 slender form. Moist ground, Maryland to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. 



K. montana, NI:TT. 1. c. Caulescent or subcaulescent from short cespitose rootstocks, not 

 tuberiferous : peduncles simple and naked, a span to a foot long: leaves from oblong to 

 linear, from entire to pinuatifid, thickish : head smaller than of the preceding. Ilyoxn-is 

 montana, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. Cynthia D<t million, var. y, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 469. C. Dan- 

 delion, Meehan. Nat. Flowers, ser. 2, ii. t. 35. Crevices of rocks, Alleghany Mountains 

 (Blue Ridge), N. and S. Carolina and Georgia; first coll. by Mifhnn.r. 



K.. amplexicaulis, NI;TT. 1. c. Caulescent, not tuberiferous, glaucous : stem a foot or two 

 high, 1-3-leaved, bearing one or two or few somewhat umbellate heads on moderately long 

 peduncles : leaves oblong or oval, obtuse, entire, repand and denticulate, or radical somewhat 

 lyrately lobed ; these contracted into winged petioles ; cauline partly clasping by a broad base : 

 heads a third of an inch high. Tragopogon Virginicum, L. Spec. ii. 789. Ifyoseris amplexi- 

 cauiis, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. //. biflora, Walt, Car. 194? II. prcnanthoides, "Willd. Spec. iii. 

 1618. Cynthia Virginica, Don, 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1 c. C. amplexicaulis, Beck, Bot. 168; 

 Darl. Fl. Cestr. 441. C. (h-ijfithli, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 69, with lower leaves run- 

 cinate-lyrate. Luthera Virginica, Schultz Bip. in Linn. x. 257. Moist banks, New York 

 to Minnesota and Colorado, south to Georgia. 



212. CICHOBIUM, Tourn. SUCCORY, CHICCORY, ENDIVE. (Arabic 

 name Latinized.) Old World herbs .: fl. summer. 



C. INTTBTJS, L. ( CHICCORY ) Deep-rooted perennial, more or less hirsute, at least below, 

 with rigid stout branches: radical leaves runciuate, cauline oblong or lanceolate, commonly 

 dentate; those of flowering branches mostly reduced and scale-like, subtending solitary or 

 clustered sessile heads, or some heads raised on a fistulous peduncle .- flowers showy, matu- 

 tinal, closing by midday, sky-blue, varying occasionally to purple or white. Roadsides, 

 common in E. New England, and in a few places westward. (Nat. from Eu.) 



213. STEPHANOMERIA, Nutt. (Sre^ai-r/, a coronal or wreath, 

 a division ; no particular application.) W. N. American perennials or an- 

 nuals, mostly smooth and glabrous; with branching or rarely virgate and often 

 rigid or rush-like stems, small or merely scale-like leaves on the flowering 

 branches, and usually paniculate small or middle-sized heads of rose-colored or 

 flesh-colored flowers, open only in early morning. -- Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 

 427 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 722 ; P>enth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 533 (excl. Rafricsquia) 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 427. Jamcsia, Nees in PL Neuwied Trav. 16, not Torr. & 

 Gray. 



1. ALLOSERIS, Gray. Heads large for the genus, about 12-flowered: invo- 

 lucre somewhat imbricated, the outer bracts being of 2 or 3 lengths: receptacle 

 alveolate, and the short alveoli fimbriolate-hirsute : pappus-bristles 12-20, short- 

 plumose for their whole length, sordid or almost fuscous. Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 

 552, Bot. Calif. 1. c., & Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 60. 



