276 COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



broad and rounded chaffy scales ; the inner of as many alternate slender bris- 

 tles. 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 botani- 

 cal collector in this country.) 



1. K. Virginica, Willd. Stems or scapes several (l'-10' high) ; earlier 

 leaves roundish and entire, the others narrower and often pinnatifid. Var. 

 DICHOTOMA is a branched and leafy summer state. New England to Illinois 

 and southward. April - Aug. 



74. CYNTHIA, Don. CYNTHIA. 



Heads many-flowered. Scales of the involucre several, somewhat in 2 rows. 

 Achcnia short, striate. Pappus double ; the outer of numerous very small 

 chaffy bristles ; the inner of numerous capillary elongated bristles. Low per- 

 ennial herbs, nearly smooth and glaucous, with scattered or radical leaves ; 

 the scapes or naked peduncles (often bristly at the apex) bearing rather showy 

 single heads. Flowers yellow. (Perhaps named after Mount Cynthus.) 



1. C. Virginiea, Don. Roots fibrous ; stem-leaves 1-2, oblong or lan- 

 ceolate-spatulate, clasping, mostly entire; the radical ones on short winged 

 petioles, often toothed, rarely pinnatifid ; peduncles 2-5. Moist banks, New 

 York to Michigan and southward. June. Stem 1 high, or more. 



2. C. Dandelion, DC. Scapes leafless, from a tuberous root (6' -15' high) ; 

 leaves varying from spatulate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, entire or few-lobed. 

 Moist ground, Maryland to Kentucky and southward. March- July. 



75. LB6NTODON, L., Juss. HAWKBIT. FALL DANDELION. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre scarcely imbricated, but with several bract- 

 lets at the base. Achenia spindle-shaped, striate, all alike. Pappus persistent, 

 composed of plumose bristles which are enlarged and flattened towards the base. 



Low and stemless perennials, with toothed or pinnatifid root-leaves, and scapes 

 bearing one or more yellow heads. (Name from Xe'coi/, a lion, and 68ovs, a tooth, 

 in allusion to the toothed leaves.) The following belongs to the subgenus 

 OroRfNiA, with a tawny pappus of a single row of equal bristles. 



1. L. AUTUMNALE, L. (FALL DANDELION.) Leaves laciniate-toothed or 

 pinnatifid ; scape branched ; peduncles thickened at the summit and furnished 

 with small scaly bracts. Meadows and roadsides : common in E. New Eng- 

 land. July - Oct. ( Nat. from Eu. ) 



76. TBbXIMON, Nutt. TROXIMON. 



Head many-flowered. Scales of the bell-shaped involucre ovate or lanceo- 

 late, pointed, loosely imbricated in 2 or 3 rows. Achenia smooth, 10-ribbed, 

 not beaked. Pappus longer than the achenium, white, of copious and unequal 

 rigid capillary bristles, some of the larger gradually thickened towards the base. 



Perennial herbs, with elongated linear tufted root-leaves, and a simple naked 

 scape. Heads solitary, large : flowers yellow. (Name from Tpo>o/uai, to eat, 

 first applied to some plant with an edible root, like Salsify.) 



