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COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
leaves small, oblong or lanceolate, partly clasping, toothed or entire, 
those of the branches inconspicuous ; heads 2 or 3 together. — Road¬ 
sides and fields, naturalized in the Atlantic States. Aug.-Oct. 
60. KRIGIA, Schreber. Dwarf Dandelion. 
Heads 15- 20-flowered. Scales of the involucre several, in 
about 2 rows. Achenia top-shaped, many-striate or angled. Pap¬ 
pus double ; the outer of 5 broad and rounded chaffy scales; the 
inner of as many alternate slender bristles. — Small annuals or 
biennials, branched from the base; the leaves chiefly radical, 
lyrate, or toothed, the small heads terminating the naked scapes 
or branches. Flowers yellow. (Named after D. Krieg , an early 
German botanical collector in this country.) 
Yirginica, Willd. Stems or scapes several, and fork¬ 
ing during the season; earlier leaves roundish, entire, the others nar¬ 
rower and often pinnatifid. — Var. dich6toma is a more branching 
and leafy form. —Dry sandy soil, N. England to Penn, and south- 
War ’ near coast * — Plant V - 1CK high, the heads minute. 
CYNTHIA, Don. Cynthia. 
Heads many-flowered. Scales of the involucre several, some¬ 
what m 2 rows. Achenia short, striate. Pappus double ; the 
outer of numerous very small chaffy bristles; the inner of numer¬ 
ous capillary elongated bristles. — Low perennial herbs, nearly 
smooth and glaucous, with scattered or radical undivided or pinna- 
ifid leaves , the scapes or naked peduncles (often bristly at the 
apex) bearing rather showy single heads. Flowers yellow. 
(Probably named after Mount Cynthus.) 
y ,rB ‘ ni « a . D °n. Stem-leaves 1-2, oblong or lanceo- 
nptinl^ a U a** ° aS ^ > * n ^* most, y entire; the radicle on short winged 
peboles often toothed, rarely pinnatifid; peduncles 2-5.- Moist 
ormore nd Ct>PSeS ’ New York t0 Michigan. June. —Stem 1° bigb, 
«2. I.EO ATODOIV, L., Juss. Hawkbit. 
eads many-flowered. Involucre scarcely imbricated, but with 
^ * acl * ets at the base. Achenia spindle-shaped, striate, all 
appus persistent, composed of plumose bristles which 
are enlarged and flattened towards the base. — Low and stemless 
perennials, with toothed or pinnatifid root-leaves, the scapes bear- 
