412 COMPOSITE. 



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

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

 of 10 to 15 smaller and more squamellate oblong palese 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. 



TC . Dandelion, Nutt. Scapigerous, or at length leafy-stemmed only next the ground: 

 crown bearing oval or globose tubers on filiform stolons : leaves lanceolate or almost linear, 

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

 about half-inch high. — Gen. ii. 127; Ell. Sk. ii. 267. Tragopogon Dandelium,~L. Spec. ed. 2, 

 ii. 1111. Hyoseris major, Walt. Car. 194. H. angustifolia, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. Troximon 

 Dandelion, Pers. Syn. ii. 360. Cynthia Dandelion & C. Boscii, DC. Prodr. vii. 89. C. lyrata, 

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

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



K. montana, Nutt. 1. u. Caulescent or subcaulescent from short cespitose rootstocks, not 

 tuberiferous : peduncles simple and naked, a span to a foot long : leaves from oblong to 

 linear, from entire to pinnatifid, thickish : head smaller than of the preceding. — Hyoseris 

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

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

 (Blue Ridge), N. and S. Carolina and Georgia; first coll. by Michaux. 



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

 high, 1-3-leaved, bearing one or two or few somewhat umbellate heads on moderately long 

 peduncles : leaves oblong 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. Hyoseris amplexi- 

 caulis, Michx. Fl. ii. 87. H. bi flora, Walt. Car. 194 ■? H. prenanthoides, Willd. Spec. iii. 

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

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

 cinate-lyrate. Luthera Virginica, Schultz Bip. in Linn. x. 257. — Moist banks, New Tork 

 to Minnesota and Colorado, south to Georgia. 



212. CICHdRIUM, Tourn. Succory, Chiccort, Endive. (Arabic 

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



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

 with rigid stout brauches: radical leaves runcinate ; cauline oblong or lanceolate, commonly 

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

 clustered sessile heads, or some heads raised on a fistulous peduncle : flowers showy, matu- 

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

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



213. STEPH ANOMfiRI A, Nutt. (Sre^ai^, a coronal or wreath, /icpos, 

 a division ; no particular application.) — W. N. American perennials or an- 

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

 rigid or rush-like stems, small or merely scale-like leaves on the flowering 

 branches, and usually paniculate 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. 722 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 533 (excl. Rafinesquid) ; 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 427. Jamesia, Nees in PL Neuwied Trav. 16, not Torr. & 

 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 fimbriolate-hirsute : pappus-bristles 12-20, short- 

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

 552, Bot. Calif. 1. c, & Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 60. 



