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the plant which Michaux properly compared with Leon- 

 toilon Taraxacum \n miniature. Leaves divided down to 

 the mid-rib, runcinate (or with the segments retrorse and 

 acute.) Calix 8 to l2-])arted, simple. Pappus also as in 

 the preceding. May not this be Hyosevis caroliviana? of 

 "Walter. 



3. * dichotoma. Somewhat glaucous; dichotomously 

 caulescent; lea%es spathulate-linear, nearly entire, smooth, 

 or subciliate; scapes numerous, 1-flowered, very long. 

 Hyosevis? ramosissinia. W. P. C Barton. Flor. Philad. Pro- 

 dromus. p. 75. Hab. "In the sandy fields of Xew Jersey 

 near to Philadelphia, also in Maryland, on the road from 

 York to Baltimore.'*— Doctor W. P. C. Barton, r. s. Obs. 

 Stem diffusely caidescent, very short; scapes or peduncles 

 6 to 12 inches long, sparsely pilose. Setae and paleae of the 

 pappus mostly in o's; seed inversely conic, brown, and 

 striate; primary strix 5, converging, intermediate strix 10, 

 interposed by pairs (rarely by 3's) shorter than the pri- 

 mary, and coalescing attjieir base. 



4. mo7itana. ffifoseris montana. Mich. Flor. Am. 



5. Dayidelion. Glaucous and smootli; leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, incisely rarely and remotely toothed; 

 root bulbous, pendulous; scape 1-flowered- Hab. In Vir- 

 ginia. Flower equal in sii? with that of K. amplex-l- 

 canlis, the pappus double, and almost equally numerous. 

 Troximon Danikllov, Pei'soon. 2. p. 360. Hioseris angusti- 



joHa, .Mich. 2. p. 8~. 



6. amplexicaulis. Hyoseris ajnplexicaulis. Mich. H. Pre- 

 nanthoides, Willd. Glaucous; leaves oblong-ovate, radical 

 ones subdentate, si)athulaLe; scape subbifoliate, simple or 

 bifid, branches 2 or 3 flowered; flowers long pedunculate, 

 fastigiate; pilose pappus numerous. Hab. ('ommon 

 throughout the eastern and western states. Flowers 

 orange-yellow, as in tiie other species. Calix simple, 

 about 12-parted, sometimes glandulously pilose at the base. 

 Chaffy pappus external, 8-parted; pilose about 24 sca- 

 brous and deciduous set?£. Unquestionably a congener 

 with the above. ^ 



Hitherto a North American genus and nearly allied to 

 Hyosens. 



534. TROXIMON. Gcertner. 



Calix oblong, conic, many-leaved, leaflets un- 

 equal, imbricated. Receptacle naked, puncticu- 

 iate. Pappus sessile, pilose. 



Allied to Jragopogon, Scapes 1-flowered, leaves nar- 



