GENUS 4. ; CHICORY FAMILY. 3°7 
1. Krigia virginica (L.) Willd. Carolinia Dwarf Dandelion. Krigia. 
Fig. 4045. 
Hyoseris virginica L. Sp. Pl. 809. 1753. 
Hyoseris caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 194. 1788. 
Krigia virginica Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1618. 1804. 
Krigia caroliniana Nutt. Gen, 2: 126. 1818. 
Adopogon carolinianum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 
346. 1894. 
Annual, acaulescent; scapes usually several 
from the same root, very slender, glabrous or 
hispidulous, monocephalous, 1’—15’ high, simple, or 
sometimes branched at or near the base. Leaves 
commonly all basal, tufted, spatulate, lanceolate 
or linear, pinnatifid, sinuate, lobed, dentate or 
rarely entire, 1-6’ long, narrowed at the base into 
usually margined petioles; head 3’-7” broad; 
involucre of 9-18 linear-lanceolate bracts, reflexed 
after the fall of the narrowly turbinate somewhat 
s-angled achenes; pappus of 5 round short scales 
and Io or more long capillary bristles. 
In dry, sandy soil, Maine to Ontario and Minne- 
pee Florida and Texas; also in Washington. April- 
ug. 
5. CYNTHIA D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 12: 305. 1820. 
Perennial herbs, with tufted basal leaves, the large many-flowered heads at the ends of 
simple or branched scapes. Flowers orange or yellow. Bracts of the involucre 9-18, reflexed 
in fruit, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, not keeled. Pappus of 10-15 small scales and as 
many long bristles or more. [Mythological name.] 
Four species, natives of North America. Type species: Cynthia virginica (L.) D. Don. 
Caulescent, branched above. 1. C. virginica. 
Acaulescent, monocephalous. 2. C. Dandelion. 
1. Cynthia virginica (L.) D. Don., Cynthia. Virginia Goatsbeard. 
Fig. 4046. 
Tragopogon virginicum L. Sp. Pl. 789. 1753. 
Krigia amplexicaulis Nutt. Gen. 2: 127. 1818. 
Cynthia virginica D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 12: 309. 1829. 
Adopogon virginicum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 304. 1891. 
Cynthia falcata Standley, Contr. Nat. Herb. 13: 356. 1911. 
” Perennial, glabrous and glaucous; stem 1°-24° high, 
t-leaved and branched above, bearing 1-6 long-peduncled 
heads at its summit and usually 1 oblong, entire or 
toothed clasping leaf below the middle. Basal leaves 
tufted, runcinate, sinuate, denticulate, or entire, 2’-7’ 
long, narrowed into margined petioles, heads about 13’ 
broad; involucre of 9-15 lanceolate nerveless bracts, 
3-4” long, reflexed in fruit; achenes nearly oblong; 
pappus of 10-15 small oblong scales and an equal or 
greater number of capillary bristles; flowers orange to 
reddish orange. 
In moist woods and meadows, Massachusetts to southern 
EAN Ontario_and Manitoba, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and 
Colorado. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. False dandelion. May—Oct. 
