414 Ordeu 70.— COMPOSITE. 



rarely solitary, sometimes 10 or 12, mostly about 5. Fls. bright-purple. JL — 

 Sept. 



6 L. Boykiaii Torr. and Gr. Slender, erect; lvs. linear, punctate, elongated, the 

 upper short and setaceous; lids. 3 to 5-flowered, sessile, or with short aj piessed 



{>eu. iua close virgate spike; scales lew, the outer subulate, short, the inner 

 ance-linear, margins scarious, lips acuminate, spreading, as long as the plumous 

 pappus. — \\\ Ga. Plant nearly smooth, 1 to 2f high, with pale purple forcts. 

 Aug, Sept. 



7 L. tenuifolia Nutt. Smooth, slender, simple; Ivs. narrowly linear or filiform, 

 the lower crowded, very long, diminishing upwards to setaceous bracts; hds. 5- 

 flowered, crowded, ou scaly, filiform ped. forming a long raceme; scales oblong, 

 obtuse, mucronulate, outer very short ; pappus plumous, scarcely longer than the 

 villous fruit. — Pine barrens, N. Car. to Ma. Very elegant, 2 lo 4f high. Rt. Ivs. 

 resembling those of tho long-leaved pine, in a crowded tuft. Eac. of purple fls. 



1 to 2fj ped. 1'. Aug.— Oct. 



8 L. secunda Ell. Slender, ascending and recurved ; Ivs. linear, short, the radi- 

 cal linear-lanceolate; rac. recurved, long, slender, with the heads all turned to the 

 upper side (sccund) ; invol. about 10-scaled ai.d 6-flowertd ; pappus plumous 

 (under a lens). — Dry sand hills, Mid. Car. and Ga. Sis. 1 to 3f high. Bcautimllj 

 distinguished by its long (6 to 12 ) secund racemes. Aug., Sept. 



9 L. panciiora Ph. St. simple, glabrous; Ivs. linear; pan. (composed of pimple 

 racemes?) virgate, leafy, branches short, with few lids.; hcls. subsessile, secund, 

 3 to 5-flowered; scales erect, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. — Ga. (Partiam. lurch.) 

 A species at present unknown. Probably a var. of the last. 



10 L. gracilis Ph. Pubescent, slender, simple; Ivs. linear, 1 -veined, Fhort, the 

 lower lanceolate, obtuse, all glabrous, ciliatc at base ; lids. 3 to 5 to 7-rIowered, 

 on divaricate, slender, hairy pedicels, in along virgate raceme, rarely paniculate; 

 scales few, appressed, oblong, obtuse, shorter than the purple batbellate pappus. 

 Dry pine barrens, Ga., Fla,, Ala. Plant grayish, 2 to 3f high. Hds. smalL Fr. 

 villous. Sept., Oct 



XI L. pyenostachya Mx. Simple, moro or less hirsute, very leafy ; Ivs. rigid, 

 ascending, straight, lower ones long, lanceolate, veined, obtuse, upper short, nar- 

 row-linear; spike dense and thick, long and braetcd below; hds. numerous, cylin~ 

 drical, sessile, 5-flowered; scales appressed, with acute, scarious and colored 

 Bquarrous t ; ps. — Prairies, 111. to Tex. A stout species, distinguished liom L. 

 spicata, chiefly by its acute, squarrous scales, and few-flowered heads. St. 3 to 5f 

 high. Spikes cylindrical, 10 to 20' long. Aug. Varies with stem and invoL 

 nearly glabrous (L. brachystachya Nutt.) 



12 L. scaricsa L. Gay Feather. Scabrous- pubescent ; lvs. lanceolate, lower 

 on long petioles, upper linear and much smaller; hds. remotely racemed, 20 to 40- 

 flowered, globous hemispherical; scales obovate, very obtuse, purplifch; fls. numer- 

 ous; pappus scabrous. — A beautiful plant, 4 to 5f high, in woods and sandy fields, 

 Can., Mass. (Ricard) to Ga. and La, St. rather stout, whitish above. Lvs. 

 numerous, entire, lower 3 to 9' long, upper 1 to 3' by 1 to 3 ', rough-edged. 

 Hds. 5 to 20, 1' diam., in a long raceme, each 20 to 40-f.owercd. Ccr. purple. 

 Aug. f 



13 L. spicata "Willd. Lvs. lance-linear, smootbisli, punctate, ciliate, lower ones 

 narrowed at base ; hds. in along, terminal spike, sessile ; scales of the invol. oblong, 

 obtuse; fls. about 8; pappus scabrous-plumous. — Native from N. J. and Mich, to 

 Fla. and La. Abundant in prairies. A beautiful species, often cultivated. St 



2 to 5f high. Hds. numerous, with bright purple fls, Aug. \ — Varies with 

 smaller, 5 to 7-fiowered heads. (L. resinosa Nutt.) 



14 L. gramiuifolia Willd. Glabrous or with scattered hairs ; st. slender and 

 simple; lvs. linear, 1-veined; Ms-. 7 to 12-flowered, mostly pedicellate, spikes or 

 racemes sometimes paniculate below; invol. acute at base; scales many (12 to 

 18), obovate-spatulate, very obtvse, appressed, outer row shorter; ach. hairy. — N. 

 J. to Ga. and Ala, St. 2 to 3f high. The lower lvs. are lance-linear, 3 to 4" 

 wide, upper subulate. Hd". generally pedicellate, pedicels 4 to 12" long. Fr. 

 hairy, shorter than tho scabrous pappus. Sept., Oct. 



/?. bubia. Inflorescence sometimes compound below, or partly paniculate ; 



