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Plant often minute. Flowers blight orange colour, heaves and Uni - 
Leaves runcinate, 
nearly glabrous ; 
scapes very long, and 
with the base of the 
involucrum glandular- 
ly hairy. 
Hyoseris Caroliniana. Walt. p. 194. 
Root perennial, fibrous. Radical Leaves at first lanceolate, then pin® 
natifid and sometimes runcinate, the lateral lobes acute, the terminal one 
large, generally obtuse, all sometimes toothed, and sprinkled particularly 
on the upper surface, with jointed hair. Scapes numerous from each 
root, 6 — -12 inches high, a little hairy, particularly towards the base, one 
flowered. Involucrum 10 — -20 parted, segments equal, linear lanceolate., 
glabrous. Corolla ligulate, longer than the involucrum, bright orange co- 
loured, a little hairy at base. Seeds inversely conic, striate, muricate^ 
crowned with a double pappus, the exterior composed of 5 short, nearly 
round, membranaceous leaves, the interior of 5 scabrous bristles, as long 
as the involucrum, and alternating with the leaves of the exterior pappus* 
Receptacle naked, convex, dotted. 
Around the plants of this genus there is still some obscurity. The 
plant which I have minutely described above, is the common species of 
our country and is generally considered as the K. Virginica. The refe- 
rences to Wilid. and Mich, would perhaps be more correct here than un- 
der the preceding species. If, as suggested by Mr. Nuttall, this is the H* 
Caroliniana of Walter, I have no doubt that his H. Virginica is the K* 
Dandelion of Nuttall. At the same time, I am persuaded that the plant I 
have described is not the Southern species known to Mr. Le Conte anc! 
Dr. Baldwin, which I have seen, but of which I have no description. 
Grows in sandy soils. Very common. 
Flowers February — April. 
ties of the pappus 5—8. Nutt. 
Grows in dry sandy soils. 
Flowers in the spring. 
2. Caroliniana. 
K. foliis runcinatis, 
subglabris; scapisprae- 
longis, involucrique 
basi glanduloso-pilo- 
sis. Nutt. 
3. D ANDELION. 
K. glabra, subglau- 
ea ; foliis lineari lan- 
ceolatis,integris, lcevi- 
Glabrous, slightly 
glaucous ; leaves line- 
ar lanceolate, entire, 
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