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below; scales of the involucre somewhat narrower and less rounded at the 

 summit, usually ciliate.— L. pilosa, Pursh, I. c. (chiefly); Nutt. I. c. ; Ell.! 

 sk. 2. p. 277, "var. dubia" (the inflorescence compound below); Lindl. bot. 

 resr. i. 595 ("/3. gracilis"); Lodd. bot. cat. t. 356; not of Willd. (Ait.) L. 

 pilosa /3. L-Evicaulis, DC! prodr. 5. p. 131. L. spicata y. racemosa, DC! 

 I. c.p. 130. L. dubia, Bart. res;, mat. med. 2. p. 222, t. 49. "L. turbi- 

 nata. Sweet, in Loud. hort. Brit." Anonymos cilia!u>, Walt. Car. p. 197 7 



Pine barrens, often in wet places, New Jersey ! (var. d. ?) to Alabama! 

 and Florida! common. Aua.-Oct.— Stem 1-4 feet high. Heads as large 

 or larger than in L. spicata,'in var. a. & >■. smaller. — Our chief doubts re- 

 specting the plants here brought together, relate to var. S.l, which is very 

 properly called L. dubia by Barton, and which varies between this species 

 and L. spicata, while it presents no characters that we can seize upon to dis- 

 tinguish it as a separate species. The chief distinctions between this species 

 and L. spicata consist in the usually larger, fewer, and more scattered heads; 

 the more regularly imbricated scales of the obconical or obovate involucre, 

 diminishing "successively to the outermost, which are very short; the more 

 hairy and shorter achenia, &c. We are by no means certain that we have 

 correctly referred this species to the L. gramlnifolia of Willdenow, which 

 appears to have been derived from Muhlenberg; in whose herbarium seve- 

 ral s[)ecies are mingled under this name. Our remarks upon the inflores- 

 cence of the preceding, apply equally to the present species; and it may also 

 be remarked, that the heads of the compoimd ])ortion of the inflorescence are 

 frequently smaller and fewer-flowered than the others. We have an inte- 

 resting variety, or state, sent from Middle Florida by Dr. Chapman ; a plant 

 at least six feet high, the inflorescence of which exceeds three feet in length, 

 consisting of a dense virgate raceme (more than 2 feet long) of crowded 

 heads, on spreading or recurved pedicels not larger than the heads them- 

 selves, which at the apex are as large as is usuat in this species, but very 

 gradually diminish in size towards the base: below the inflorescence is com- 

 pound, consisting of numerous filiform branches, 2-4 inches long; bear- 

 ing several mostly sessile heads, which are seldom more than half the size 

 of those at the sijrnmit of the raceme. — In a single cultivated specimen of 

 the paniculate state of this species, Mr. Nuttall ( Trans. Amer. phil. soc. I. c.) 

 remarked chafly scales intermixed among the flowers. This accidental oc- 

 currence, however, will hardly be thought to overthrow a genus so well 

 marked by habit as Carphephorus proves to be. 



11. L. spicata [WiWd.) : glabrous, or rarely pubescent; stem strict, very 

 leafy; leaves linear, acute; often ciliate towards the base; the upper ones 

 very short, often subulate; the lowermost elongated, 3-5-nerved ; heads 

 about 8- (sometimes 10-13-) flowered, sessile, aggregated in a dense elonga- 

 ted spike; involu(;re cylindrical or cylindrical-campanulate, obtuse at the 

 base; the scales (15-20) appressed, resinous-punctate and with narrow scari- 

 ous (purplish) margins, obtuse; the inneroblong; the exterior oval orroiihd- 

 ish, short; achenia more or less hairy or pubescent, or almost glabrous when 

 mature; pappus densely barbellale. — Willd.! spec. 3. p. 1636; Bot. mag. 

 t. 1411 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 273; Brit. fl. gard. t. 49; Nutt.! gen. 2. p. 131; 

 Darlinsf. •' fl- Cest. p. 448 ; DC ! prodr. 5. p. 130. (a. & /?.) L. macrosta- 

 chya, Mich.v. ! fi. 2 p. 91 ; Pursh, I. c. Serratula spicata, Linn.! spec. 2. 

 p. 819 (excl. syn. Gronov.) ; Andr. bot. rep. t. 401. Suprago spicata, 

 Gartn. fr. 2. p'. 402, t. 167. Cirsiuni tuberosum, &c. Dill. Elth. t. 72, 

 /. 83. 



(i. heads about 5-flowered; plant smaller.— L. resinosa, Nutt.! gen. 2. 

 p. 131, not of DC. 



Moist ground, Michigan! and New Jersey ! to Florida! and Louisiana! 

 common." Aug.-Oct.— Stem 2-5 feet high. Leaves often hairy on the 

 nerves, spreading or somewhat erect. Spike 5-15 inches long; the heads 



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