Star," " Rattlesnake-Plant;* &c. &c., and to be founcl in 

 pine-Lairens and sandy fields from New Jersey to Carolina. 

 Ltatris gracilis of Pursh seems a variety of pHosa with 

 smoother foliage and smaller flowers. 



Drawn in October last at Messrs. Colvill's, in the 

 King's Road. Introduced by Mr. William Young in 1783. 



A hardy tuberous-rooted perennial. Tuher ovate. Stem 

 almost always simple, from nine inches to a foot and a half 

 or more in height, about as thick as a duck's quill, up- 

 right, fluted, thinly or thickly haired, loosely leaved. Stem- 

 leaves, scattered, spreading, linear, taper-pointed, glandu- 

 T.'irly dotted, either hairy or nearly smooth, midrib paler 

 and sunk above, slightly prominent in a double line under- 

 neath: from about two inches long, gradually growing 

 shorter as they ascend the stem. Raceme manyflowered, of 

 various lengths, upright, simple, rather close-pressed ; flowers 

 upright, widishly apart, smaller than in scariosa, violet-red, 

 scentless, axillary, solitary, with an end-one: peduncles 

 slender, hairy, fluted, 1-2 inches long, leafily scaled at the 

 top, uppermost longer than the subtended leaf. Calyx 

 herbaceous, turbinately cylindrical, surrounded at the lower 

 part by the leaflets of the peduncle, oblong, smooth, glan- 

 dularly dotted, imbricated in triple or quadruple order; 

 leajlets upright and straight, lanceolately oblong, slightly 

 convex, fringed, inner ones longer and something narrower, 

 with a coloured but very shallow border. Florets many, 

 equal, bending towards the circumference of the flower, over- 

 topping the calyx, long-funnelform, slender, glittering; 

 tule continuous with the widened faux; limb twice shorter 

 than the tv^o together, stellately spreading, smooth, of a 

 lilae-red on the inside, white on the outside; segments ob- 

 long taper-pointed. Receptacle naked, dotted, narrow, 

 slightly convex: germen oblong cuneately tapered, fluted, 

 shaggy, pale, shorter than the seedcrown, standing on a 

 very short fine wiiy pedicle : pappus capillary, feathered, of 

 many pieces, -f shorter than the floret. Stigmas and anthers 

 as in scariosa (see above fol. 590). 



