﻿COMPOSITiE. 

 Pappus double ; the exterior of n 



§ 1. Caulescent, somewhat branched above: root not tuheriferous : peduncles 

 subumbellate : achenia oblong, slightly narrowed tmvards the lase.—Ev- 

 CYNTHiA, DC. (excl. char, invol. calycul.) (Luthera, Schultz.) 



Nutt.i in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 69. Tragopogon Virginicura, 

 Linn. spec. 2. p. 789. Hyoseris amplexicaulis, Michx. ! fi. 2. p. 

 87. H. biflora, Walt. Car. p. 194. H. prenanthoides, Willd. spec. 3. p. 

 1516. Troximon Virginicum, Pers. syn. 2. p. 360 ; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 505. 

 Krigia amplexicaulis, Nutt. ! gen. 2. p. 127; Ell. sk. 2. p. 266. Luthera 

 Virginica, Schultz, in Linn^a, 10. p. 257. 



Dry or moist sandy soil, &c.. New York ! Michigan! and from Lake 

 Winipeg(Dr. Houghton!) to Kentuckv ! and the upper part of Carohna! 

 and Georgia! May-July.-Stem 1-2 'feet high, sometimes once or twice 

 dlhj?b ^°™ir^lf ""'u^br t^^7\ Peduncles subtended 



§2. Acaulescent : roots tuberiferous : scapes naked, simple: achenia taper- 



sS— C. DSe"uo!f& C^B^d .W.T c! lyrarariVu«. Ti^jou^acad. 



Philad. 7. p. 69. ^ Tragoj^gon Dandelium^, Linn. spec. ed. 2. ^j. 1111 [pi. 



..^^v.^.^. x-i. cii.guslifolia, il ^- 



Dandelion, Nutt. ! gen. 2. p. 127 ; ^j'-J^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^.^^ ^ ^^^^j 

 laci'niate-pi^nnSd.— Krigia Hook. ! in compan. to bot.^mag^ l. 



Low grounds and fields, Maryland! and Virginia ! to Alabama ! Louis- 

 iana! Arkansas! and Texas! 7- Wet rocks at Tulaloo Falls, and mountains 

 of Georgia, Mr. Buckley.' March-May— Scapes 6-15 inches high: some 

 of the leaves often almost as long. Roots fibrous, bearing small round tubers at 

 the extremity. Achenia somewhat scabrous. Exterior squamellate pappus 

 always present; the bristles of the inner minutely scabrous.— Our var. /3. 



