WOOTON AND STANDLEY PLOEA OF NEW MEXICO. 649 



8. LACINIARIA Hill. Blazing 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. punctata. 



Pappus merely barbellate; bracts rounded -obtuse. 



Heads many, nearly sessile, 1 cm. broad or less; some of the 



leaves trinervate 2. L. lanci/olia. 



Heads few, pedunculate, 2 cm. broad; none of the leaves 



trinervate ;5. L. ligulistylis. 



1. Laciniaria punctata (Hook.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 3-19. 1891. 

 TAatris punctata Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 306. pi. 105. 1833. 



Type locality: "Plains of the Saskatchewan, Drummond; and on the Red Deer 

 and Eagle hills, in dry soils." 



Range: 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 locality: White Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Wooton 

 (no. 25 

 Range: Southeastern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: White Mountains; Roswell. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



3. Laciniaria ligulistylis A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 31: 405. 1901. 



/ iatris ligulistylis A. Nels. in Coulter, New Man. Rocky Mount. 488. 1909. 

 Type locality: Laramie Peak, Wyoming. 



Range: 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 c\ lindric, 10-striate; pappus a single row of plumose hristles. 



Ki:v TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves linear; bracts narrow, thin, straw-colored, in 2 evidenl 



Beries, pubescent only on the margi 1 > glandular.. 1. K. rvsTnarinifolia. 



Leave mostly linear-lanceolate; bracts broad, thick, green, not, 

 in 2 evident series, finely pubescent, sparingly if at all 



glandular 2. A', chlorolepis. 



1. Kuhnia rosmarinifolia Vent. PI. .lard, (els />l. 91. 1800. 

 Ehtpatoriwm cane, ffort. Matr. Dec. 34. L797-1800, nol V.dd. i. 



Kuhnia leptophylla Scheele, Linnaea 21: 598. L849. 



Ttpi i • " ■■■in: Given as Cuba, but this is probably incorrect and slum Id be Mexi< o. 

 !: u i and Arizona t" Mi sico. 



N i w Mi uoo: Dulce; Pajarito Park; Cleveland; P< una; Anton Chico; 



BOCOITO; EUngSton; Mogollon Mountains; Dona Ana and Organ mountain-; Whit.- and 



Sacramento mountains; ' i i I lulls, in the Upper Sonoran 



and lower part oi the Transition eo 



