. 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. Genus 4. CHICORY FAMILY. 3°7 1. Krigia virginica (L.) Willd. Carolinia Dwarf Dandelion. Krigia. Fig. 4045. Hyoseris virginica L. Sp. PI. 809. 1753. Hyoseris caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 194. 1788. Krigia virginica Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1618. 1804. Krigia caroliniana Nutt. Gen. 2: 126. 1818. Adopogon carolinianum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 346. 1894. Annual, acaules
. 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. Genus 4. CHICORY FAMILY. 3°7 1. Krigia virginica (L.) Willd. Carolinia Dwarf Dandelion. Krigia. Fig. 4045. Hyoseris virginica L. Sp. PI. 809. 1753. Hyoseris caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 194. 1788. Krigia virginica Willd. Sp. PI. 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, i'-is' 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, i'-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 10 or more long capillary bristles. In dry, sandy soil, Maine to Ontario and Minne- sota, Florida and Texas; also in Washington. April- 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. Cy
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