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1 t 1 Leaves lanceolate and evate, lower ones serrate. 
——Flowers fastigiate or corymbose. 
36. * nudiferus. Stem simple and smooth; leaves ses- 
sile, ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, and all sharply ser- 
rate, upper surface scabrous; corymb simple, few-flower- 
ed; peduncles pubescent, naked, mostly 1-flowered; calix 
hemispherical, closely imbricated, shorter than the disk, 
scales linear-oblong, and ciliate. Has. In the swamps of 
N. Jersey; rare. Detected by W. Stuve, M.D. Stem 2 
or 3 feet high. Leaves about 3 inches long, and an inch 
wide, the lower ones acuminate, and cunéate at the base, 
the uppermost oblong-ovate, acute, and not much smaller. 
Peduncles 3 to 5, mostly 1-flowered, 3 or 4 inches long, 
lateral ones longest. Flower large, pale violet-purple, 
with many rays which are longer than the calix. Nearly 
allied to the following. 37. Radula. : 
33. peregrinus. 39. strictus. Scarcely distinct apparent- 
ly from the following. 40. surculosus. Stem simple, low 
and slender, minutely pubescent; lower leaves linear-ian- 
ceolate, entire, or subserrate, above scabrous, upper ones 
- linear, amplexicanle; corymb 3 to 5-flowered, somewhat 
naked; calix imbricated, subsquarrose, scales ciliate, li- 
near-oblong, inner ones obtuse; rays about 20. _ Has. On 
the margins of open bushy swamps and Savannahs, in Ten- 
nessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Nearly allied to the 
following, but smaller and slender. Stem 12 to 18 inches 
high. Root stoloniferous and creeping. Radical leaves 
spathulate, or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes near a 
long, with the. sheath ciliated. Flowers rather large, of 
a bright violet-purple; inner scales of the ¢ealix often co- 
floured. ‘The habit of this plant is very much like that of 
4 corymbose Liatris; the pappus is also scabrous, but the 
seed smooth. !t appears to be J. elegans of Willdenow. 
41. spectabilis, Leaves oblong-lanceolate, partly sca- 
" brous, and subamplexicaule, lower ones serrate inthe mid- 
dle, ‘branches corymbose, calix hemisp erical, somewhat 
Slandularly pubescent, foliaceous and squat , leaflets 
partly acute. Has. Mit New Jer- 
sey, common. Corymb, 10 to-15-Aowered, the branches 
or 3-flowered, subpilose; flowers blue and large. The 
viscidly pubescent calix and peduncle, with the numer- 
ous flowers, and the approximating equality of the leaves, 
distinguish this species readily from the 
