. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. CYNTHIA D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 12 : 305. 1829. 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. [Mytholog
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. CYNTHIA D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 12 : 305. 1829. 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. i. Cynthia virginica (L.) D. Cynthia. Fig. 4046. Virginia Goatsbeard. Tragopogon virginicum L. Sp. PI. 789. 1753. Krigia amplexicaulis Nutt. Gen. 2: 127. 1818. Cynthia virginica D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 12 : 309. 1829. Adopogon virginicum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 304. 1891. Cynthia falcata Standley, Contr. Nat. Herb. 13: 356. 1911. Perennial, glabrous and glaucous; stem i°-2l° high, i-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 ii' 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 \y y '*-â ⢠Ontario and Manitoba, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and Colorado. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. False dandelion. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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