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8. LACINIARIA Hill. Buazrna star. 
Handsome perennial herbs with thick globose rootstocks; stems simple, leafy, 
bearing large rose-purple heads in racemes or spikes; leaves alternate, narrow, entire; 
heads 4 to many-flowered; involucral bracts spirally imbricated; receptacle naked ; 
achenes slender, pubescent; pappus a single series of plumose or merely barbellate 
bristles. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Pappus plumose; bracts abruptly acuminate...............-- .-.. 1. L. puncetata. 
Pappus merely barbellate; bracts rounded-obtuse. 
Heads many, nearly sessile, 1 cm. broad or less; some of the 
leaves trinervate............ cece cece ee eee eee ee eee eee 2. L. laneifolia. 
Heads few, pedunculate, 2 cm. broad; none of the leaves 
trimervate... 2... cee cc cece eee ee eee ence eens 3. LD. ligulistylis. 
1. Laciniaria punctata (Hook.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 349. 1891. 
Tiatris punctata Hook. F1. Bor, Amer, 1: 306. pl. 105. 1833, 
Type Locauity: ‘‘Plains of the Saskatchewan, Drummond; and on the Red Deer 
and Eagle hills, in dry soils.”’ 
Rance: Montana and Saskatchewan to Iowa, Arizona, and Texas. 
New Mexico: Gallinas Planting Station; Clovis; Pecos; Folsom; Logan; Capitan 
Mountains; Colfax; Johnsons Mesa; Raton Mountains; Nara Visa; Melrose. Dry plains, 
in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Laciniaria lancifolia Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 118. 1898. 
TypE Locauity: White Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Wooton 
(no. 254). 
Rance: Solitheastern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: White Mountains; Roswell. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
3. Laciniaria ligulistylis A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 31: 405. 1901. 
Liatris ligulistylis A. Nels, in Coulter, New Man. Rocky Mount. 488. 1909. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Laramie Peak, Wyoming. 
RanaeE: Wyoming and Black Hills of South Dakota to northeastern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Sierra Grande (Howell 212). 
9. KUHNIA L. 
Low, much branched, perennial herbs with narrow entire alternate leaves and panic- 
ulate-corymbose discoid heads of whitish flowers; heads rather few-flowered, the 
flowers perfect; involucral bracts thin, striate-nerved, narrow, loosely imbricated; 
achenes cylindric, 10-striate; pappus a single rew of plumose bristles. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves linear; bracts narrow, thin, straw-colored, in 2 evident 
series, pubescent only on the margins, strongly glandular.. 1. K. rosmarinifolia, 
Leaves mostly linear-lanceolate; bracts broad, thick, green, not 
in 2 evident series, finely pubescent, sparingly if at all 
glandular... 2.22... cee eee ee eee ee eee eee eee rece eces 2. K. chlorolepis. 
1. Kuhnia rosmarinifolia Vent. Pl. Jard. Cels pl. 91. 1800. 
Eupatorium canescens Orteg. Hort. Matr. Dec. 34. 1797-1800, not Vahl, 1793. 
Kuhnia leptophylla Scheele, Linnaea 21: 598. 1849. 
TYPE LocaLity: Given as Cuba, but this is probably incorrect and should be Mexico. 
RanGE: Texas and Arizona to Mexico. 
New Mexico: Dulce; Pajarito Park; Cleveland; Pecos; Laguna; Anton Chico; 
Socorro; Kingston; Mogollon Mountains; Dona Ana and Organ mountains; White and 
Sacramento mountains; Artesia; Carlsbad; Nara Visa. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran 
and lower part of the Transition zones. 
