SYNGENESIA JEQUALIS. 



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Plant often minute. Flowers bright orange colour. Leaves and Bris- 

 tles of the pappus 5 — 8. Nutt, 

 Grows in dry sandy soils. 

 Flowers in the spring. 



2. Caroliniana. 



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K. foliis runcinatis, 



subglabris; scapisprae- 

 longis, 



Leaves runcinate 



nearly 



glabrous 



9 



involucrique scapes very long, and 



basi glandiiloso-piio- 



sis. 



Nutt. 



with the base of the 



involiicrum glandular- 

 ly hairy. 



Hyoseris Caroliniana. Walt. p. 194. 



Root perennial, fibrous. Radical Leaves at first lanceolate, then pin- 

 natitid and sometimes runcinate, the lateral lobes acute, the terminal one 

 large, generally obtuse, all sometimes toothed, and sprinkled particularly 

 on the upper surface, with jointed hair. Scapes numerous from each 

 root, 6—12 mches high, a little hairy, particularly towards the base, one 

 nowered. Invotucrum 10—20 parted, segments equal, linear lanceolate, 

 , pabrous. Coro/^a ligulate, longer than the involucrum, bright orange co- 

 loured, a little hairy at base. Seeds inversely conic, striate, muricate, 

 crowned with a double pappus, the exterior composed of 5 short, nearly 

 round, membranaceous leaves, the interior of 5 scabrous bristles, as long 

 ^ the involucrum, and alternating with the leaves of the exterior pappus. 

 Keceptadc naked, convex, dotted. 



Around the plants of this genus there is still some obscurity. The 

 plant which I have minutely described above, is the common species of 

 our country and is generally considered as the K. Virginica. The refe- 

 rences to Willd. and JMich. would perhaps be more correct here than un- 

 oer the preceding species. If, as suggested by Mr. Nuttall, this is the H. 

 J^aro iniana of Walter, I have no doubt that his H. Virginica is the K. 

 JJancleiion of Nuttall. At the same time, I am persuaded that the plant I 

 nave described is not the Southern species known to Mr. Le Conte and 



r. Baldwin, which I have seen, but of which I have no description. 



^rows m sandy soils. Very common. 



J* lowers February— April. 



3. D 



ANDELION. 



K. glabra, subglau- 

 ; foliis lineari lan- 

 ceolatis,inte£rris,loevi. 



ca 



Glabrous 



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slig 



htly 



VOL. ir. 



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glaucous ; leaves line 



ar lanceolate, entire 





