236 COMPOSITiB (COHPOSITB FAMILT.) 



!■ K. Tirginica, Willd. Stems or scapes several, forking during the 

 season (1' - 10' high) ; earlier leaves roundish, entire, the others narrower, oftea 

 pinnatifid. — Var. dich6toma is a branched and leafy summer state. — New 

 England to Virginia and southward, mostly near the' coast. April - Aug. 



74. CYNTHIA, Don. Cynthia. 



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

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

 chaiFy bristles ; the inner of numerous capillary elongated bristles. — Low pe- 

 rennial 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. (Probably named after Mount Cynthus.) 



1. C. Virg'inica, Don. Roots fibrous ; siem-Zeawes 1 - 2, oblong or lance- 

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

 oles, often toothed, rarely pinnatifid ; peduncles 2-5. — Moist banks. New York 

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



2. C. Ddlidelion, DC. Scapes teafiess, 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. 



VS. liEONTODOlV, L., Juss. Hawkbit. Fall Dandelion. 



Heads many-fiowered. 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, the scapes 

 bearing one or more yellow heads. (Name front Xecuv, a lion, and 68ois, a tooth, 

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

 OpoiifNiA, with a tawny pappus of a siiigle row of equal bristles. 



I. 1.. atttumnXle, L. (Fall DANiSisLiON.) Leaves more Or less pin- 

 natifid ; scape branched ; peduncles thickened at the summit and furnished with 

 small scaly bracts. Meadows and road-sides ; common in E. New England 

 Aug. - Oct. (Nat. from Eu.) 



ye. HIERACIUIM, Tom-n. Hawk weed. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre more or less imbiicated. Achenia oblong 

 or columnar, striate, not beaked. Pappus a single row of tawny fragile capil- 

 lary bristles. — Perennial herbs, with entire or toothed leaves, and single or pan- 

 icled heads of yellow flowers. (Name from icpa^, a hawk.) 



* Heads large and broad: involucre imhricaied : achenia tapering towards the base. 

 1. H. Canadense, Michx. (Canada Hawkweed.) Stems simple^ 

 leafy, eorymbed at the summit (l°-3° high); leaves sessile, lanceolate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute, remotely and very coarsely toothed, somewhat hairy, the 

 uppermost slightly clasping. — Dry woods, Massachusetts to Michigan, and 

 northward. Aug. 



