412 COMPOSITE. Krigia. 



§ 3. CtNTHiA. Caulescent or acaulescent perennials, glaucescent, compara- 

 tively larsje-flowered : involucre of the preceding section : akenes less turbinate, 

 of 10 to 15 smaller and more squamellate oblong palete and 15 or 20 slender 

 capillary bristles. — Cynthia, Don in Edinb. Phil. Jour. xii. 305; DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 89 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Adopogon, Neck. Elem. i. 55. 



K. Dandelion, Nutt. Scapigerous, or at length leafy-stemmed ouly next the ground : 

 crown hearing oval or glohose tuhers on filiform stolons: leaves lanceolate or almost linear, 

 from denticulate to laciniate-lohed or pinnatifid : scapes 6 to 18 inches high, naked : head 

 about lialf-inch high. — Gen. ii. 127; Ell. !Sk. ii. 267. Tragopogon Dandeli((m,h. Spec. ed. 2, 

 ii. 1111. Hi/oseris viajor, Walt. Car. 194. //. angustifolia, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. Troximon 

 Dandelion, Pers. Syu. ii. 360. Ci/nthia Dandelion & C. Boscii, DC. Prodr. vii. 89. C lyrata, 

 Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 69. Krigia Carol iniana. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 100, a 

 slender form. — Moist ground, Maryland to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. 



K. montana, Nltt. 1. c. Caulescent or subcaulescent from short cespitose rootstocks, not 

 tuheriferous : peduncles simple and naked, a span to a foot long : leaves from ohloug to 

 linear, from entire to pinnatifid, thickish : head smaller than of the preceding. — //^oser/s 

 montana, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. Cgnthia Dandelion, var. 7, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 469. C. Dan- 

 delion, Meehan, Nat. Flowers, ser. 2, ii. t. 35. — Crevices of rocks, Alleghany Mountains 

 (Blue Kidge), N. and S. Carolina and Georgia; first coll. by Midtaux. 



K.. amplexicaulis, Nutt. 1. c. Caulescent, not tuheriferous, glaucous : stem a foot or two 

 higli, 1-3-leaved, beaiing one or two or few somewhat umbellate heads on moderately long 

 peduncles : leaves oliloug or oval, obtuse, entire, repand and denticulate, or radical somewhat 

 lyrately lobed ; these contracted into winged petioles ; cauline partly clasping by a broad base : 

 heads a third of an inch high. — Tragopogon Virginicum, L. Spec. ii. 789. Ili/oseris amplexi- 

 caulis, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. //. hi_flora, Walt. Car. 194 ? //. jwenanthoides, Willd. Spec. iii. 

 1618. Ci/nthia Virginica, Don, 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1 c. C. amplexicaulis. Beck, Bot. 168; 

 Dark Fl. Cestr. 441. C.UjriffiLhii, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 69, with lower leaves run- 

 ciuate-lyfate. Luthera Virginica, Schultz Bip. in Linn. x. 257. — Moist banks. New York 

 ito Minnesota and Colorado, south to Georgia. 



212. CICHORIUM, Tourn. Succory, Chiccoky, Endive. (Arabic 

 name Latinized.) — Old World herbs; fl. summer. 



C. IxTYBCS, L. (Chiccoky.) Deep-rooted perennial, more or less hirsute, at least below, 

 with rigid stout branches: radical loaves runcinate , cauline oblong or lanceolate, commonly 

 dentate; those of flowering branches mostly reduced and scale-like, subtending solitary or 

 clustered ses.-sile heads, or some beads raised ou a fistulous peduncle : flowers showy, matu- 

 tinal, closing by midday, sky-Llue, varying occasionally to purple or white — Roadsides, 

 common in E. New England, and in a Hew places westward. (Nat. from Eu.) 



213. STEPH ANOMERI A, Nutt. (^Ti<t>dvr,, a coronal or v^reath, fxepo';, 

 a division ; no j)articular a])|)lication.) — W. N. American jierennials or an- 

 nuals, mostly smooth and glabrous ; with branching or rarely virgate and often 

 ri^id or rush-like stems, small or merely scale-like leaves on the flowering 

 branches, and usually iianiculate small or middle-sized heads of rose-colored or 

 flesh-colored flowers, open only in early morning. — Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 

 427 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 7'22 ; r>enth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 533 (excl. Rafitiesquia) ; 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 427. Jamcsia, Nees in PI. Neuwied Trav. 516, not Toit. & 

 Gray. 



§ 1. Alloseris, Gray. Heads large for the genus, about 12-flowered: invo- 

 lucre somewhat imbricated, the outer bracts being of 2 or 3 lengths : receptacle 

 alveolate, and the short alveoli findiriolate-hirsute : pappus-bristles 1 2-20, short- 

 plumose for their whole length, sordid or almost fuscous. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 

 552, Bot. Calif. 1. c, & Proc. Am. Acad. xix. GO. 



