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8 scales, 8 - 12-flowered; pappus light brown; flowers white or cream-color. — 
Open woods in the upper distriets of Georgia, and northward. Sept.— Stem 
39-4? high. 
2. N. altissimus, Hook. Smooth; stem simple or sparingly branched 
above; leaves thin, ovate or cordate, petioled, acuminate, denticulate, or the 
lower ones palmately 3 — 5-cleft or parted ; heads in small axillary and terminal 
clusters, forming a long panicle ; involucre slender, greenish, of about 5 scales, 
5-6-flowered ; pappus dirty white or straw-colored. — Varies with the wavy- 
toothed leaves, deltoid ; the lowest hastate-3-angled or parted. (Prenanthes 
deltoidea, LU.) — Woods along the mountains, Georgia, and northward. Sept. 
— Stem 3°-5° high. Flowers yellowish, or greenish white. 
3. N. Fraseri, DC. Smooth or slightly pubescent; stem corymbosely 
panicled above ; leaves deltoid, mucronate, pinnately 3— 7-lobed, on winged peti- 
oles; the upper lanceolate, often entire; clusters small, terminal; involucre 
greenish, smooth or hairy, of about 8 scales, 8-12-flowered; pappus straw- 
color. — Varies with the lanceolate or oblong leaves mostly sessile, or the upper- 
most clasping ; the 12-15-flowered involucre hirsute with long purplish hairs. 
(Prenanthes crepidinea, ÆU.) — Dry sterile soil, Florida, and northward. Sept. 
— Stem 19 —4° high. 
4. N. virgatus, DC. Smooth; stem simple, virgate; leaves lanceolate, 
acute, sessile or partly clasping ; the uppermost small, entire; the lowest deeply 
pinnatifid, on margined petioles ; clusters of heads small, racemose; involucre 
smooth, purplish, of about 8 scales, 8—12-flowered ; pappus straw-color. — 
Damp soil, Florida, and northward. Sept. — Stem 29-49 high. Flowers 
purplish. 
5. N. crepidineus, DC. Smoothish ; stem tall, corymbosely panicled ; 
leaves oblong-ovate or somewhat hastate, acute, unequally toothed, the lowest on 
Winged petioles; involucre brown, hairy, of 12-14 scales, 20-35-flowered ; 
Pappus light brown. — Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Sept.— 
Stem 59-89 high. Lower leaves 8’-12/ long. Flowers yellowish-white. 
86. LYGODESMIA, Don. 
Heads 5-10-flowered. Involucre elongated, cylindrical, of 5 — 8 linear scales, 
and a few short exterior ones. Receptacle naked. Achenia linear, elongated, 
Smooth, striate, not narrowed upward. Pappus of copious smoothish white 
in several rows. — Perennial smooth herbs, with linear or filiform leaves. 
Heads solitary. Flowers rose-color. 
l. L. aphylla, DC. Stem simple or forking ; lowest leaves filiform, 
Clongated ; the others remote, small, and bract-like; heads showy. (Prenanthes 
aphylla, Nutt.) — Dry sandy pine barrens, Georgia and Florida. April and 
Y. — Stem 19- 2? high. 2 
87. TARAXACUM, Haller. DANDELION. Qs 
Heads many-fowered. Involucre double ; the exterior of small die. 
scales ; meinte ems Roemer naked. adeo 
