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LIATRIS* scaridsa. 
Large-flowered Liatris. | 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA /EQUALIS. 
Nat. ord. Couposrrz Juss. $ Vernoniaceee Eupatoriee, Lessing. Gen. 
Compos. p. 157. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 197.) 
LIATRIS Schreb.—Pappus pluriserialis, plumosus. Corolla limbo à 
tubo non distincto. —/fnvolucrum multiseriale. Rachis ebracteolata. 
Herbs Boreali- Americane, perennes, radice fibrosá v. tuberosd ; foliis alternis, 
integerrimis, sepê angustis, glanduloso-punctatis; capitulis multifloris, spi- 
catis v. corymbosis ; involucris imbricatis. Lessing l. c. 
L. scariosa; caule simplici subpubescente, foliis lanceolatis utrinque at- 
tenuatis margine scabris, floribus (capitulis) racemosis distantibus, squamis 
anthodii (involucri) spatulatis margine coloratis. Spreng. syst. veg. 3. 
432. 
L.scariosa. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1635. Hort. Kew. 4. 503. Pursh fl. amer. 
sept. 2. 509. Beck bot. of north. St. p. 175. 
Serratula scariosa. Linn. sp. pl. 1147. 
Radix tuberosa, crassa, carnosa. Folia radicalia, spatulata, in petiolum 
angustissimum attenuata, glabra; caulina â lata basi oblongo-linearia, pa- 
tentissima, undulata, margine scabra: superiora sensim minora. Caulis 
2-21-pedalis, angulatus, pilis scaber, apice (in hortis) subramosus, sepiusque 
in corymbum contrahens. Pedunculi in corymbosis basi fer? nudi, in race- 
mosis foliis parvis scabris recurvis sparsis vestiti, in squamis involucri sensim 
abeuntibus. Capitula omnium maxima, hemispherica; involucri multiseriati 
foliolis ciliato- scabris exterioribus foliaceis squarrosis acutis, interioribus 
oblongis obtusis appressis margine coloratis. | 
Professor Beck calls this, most correctly, a very variable 
species. It is a native of North America, from Pennsyl- 
vania to Carolina, inhabiting sandy woods, and growing 
3 or 4 feet high; but in this country we have never 
remarked it more than 24 feet, or 3 feet high at the most. 
* The meaning of this word is unknown. 
