COMPOSITE. 20 1' 



skort, about 4-haaded; head s capitaU. A. hardy plant fr«m the East Indi»s, *■ 

 teemed and cultivated for salad. 



61. KRIGIA, Shreber. 



In honor of Daniel Krig, an early German botonical collector in thii country. 



Heads 15 to 20 flowered. Involucre in a single seriei 

 frith 8 to 12 scales. Receptacle naked. Achenia tur- 

 binate, many striate or angled. Pappus double ; the outer 

 of 5 broad, chaffy, rounded scales ; the inner of as many al- 

 ternate slender bristles. — Small annual or bienniel acaules- 

 eent plants, with radical, Jyrate or toothed leaves and solitary heads 

 with 20 to 30 yellow flowers. 



2. K. Virginica, Willd. Dwarf Dandelion. 



Leaves lyrate, smooth ; scapes several 1-flowered ; involucre smooth. 



Dry sandy soil. May— July. Scojks 2 to 10 inches high, smooth. Primary 

 leaves roundish, entire. Heads solitary, small. Flowers deep yellow. This plan I 

 continues in bloom for some time, during -which it varies gieatly in the length of 

 the scape, 



62. CYNTHIA, Don, 



Probably named after Mount Cynfhus, 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre nearly simple; 

 scales in one or two rows. Achenia short striate. Pap- 

 pus double ; the outer of numerous very small chaffy bristles; 

 the inner of numerous elongated bristles.- — Perennial herb?, 

 with alternate or all radical leaves and rather ihewy single head* 

 of 15 to 20 yellow flowers, on scapes or naked peduncles. 



1. C. Virginica, Don. Virginian Cynthia. 



Smooth and glaucous; stem scape-like, often 2 or 3 parted, few-leaved; root-7<?ctfe* 

 petioled, lyrate, sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid ; sttm-leaves lanceolate, clasping, near- 

 ly entire ; peduncles 3 to 5. 



Moist banks and low open woods. June, July. StcTn.1 foot or more high, often 

 2 or 3 from one root, divided into long slender branches, with a clasping leaf at the 

 forks. Heads solitary, middle sized orange yellow. 



63. LEONTODON, L., Juss. Hawkbit. 



Gr. leon, lion, and odons, a tooth ; in allusion to the toothed margins of the leayefc 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre scarcely imbricated; 

 bcales lanceolate acuminate with several bractlets 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 stemhss perennials, 

 with toothed or pinnatifid root-leaves and one or two heads of yellow- 

 Jlowers borncon a scape.. 



