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L. cyliiitlracea, Michx. Button Snakeroot. Blazing-Star. 



Common, or frequent, through the south half of the state ; extending north to the 

 upper Mississippi river, Houghton, Oarrison, and Fergus Falls, Leonard. 



Li. scariosa, Willd. Blazing-Star. Gay Feather. 



Common, often abundant, through the south half of the state, being the most plen- 

 tiful species southwestward ; also common in the Ked river valley, especially north of 

 Sand Hill river and along the old Pembina trail, Upham; extending northeast to the 

 upper Mississippi river, Ho^ighton. (A remarkable form of this species, bearing the 

 heads at the end of leafy, ascending branches, 2 to 6 Inches long, was found in a bog 

 near Mankato by Mr. Leiberg. White-flowered specimens have been collected by 

 ifr. W. H. KeUey, at Dellwood, White Bear lake, Ramsey county.) 



Li, spicata, Willd. Blazing-Star. 



Lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Minneapolis, Kassube; Anoka county, also New Ulm, 

 Juni; Blue Earth county, Leiberg, Gedije; Kandiyohi county, Upham; Fergus Falls, 

 Leonard. Less frequent than the last and the next. South. 



Li. pycnostachya, Michx. Blazing-Star. 



Common through the south half of the state ; very abundant in the Red river valley 

 in Clay and Norman counties, but rare or infrequent north of Sand Hill river. Upham. 

 This species is three weeks earlier in flowering than L. scariosa, and prefers moister 

 ground. 



L . punctata, Hook.* Blazing-Star. 



Generally common on the drier portions of the prairie, in the west part of the state, 

 extending east to Martin county, Cratty, Saint Peter, Gedge, and the St. Croix river, 

 Swezey] but infrequent north of the Saud Hill river ; seen in Kittson county only at the 

 Ridge, twelve miles east of Saint Vincent, Upham, Dawson-^ also found at Pembina, 

 Havard. 



KUHNIA, L. KuHNiA. 



K. eiipatorioides, L. Kuhnia. 



Frequent, or common, through the south part of the state; Goodhue county. Sand- 

 berg-^ Hennepin county, Herrick; Blue Earth county, Leiberg-^ common southwestward 

 (leaves broadly lanceolate, deeply toothed), Upham; extending northwest to Devil's 

 lake, Dakota. Qeyer. 



K. eiipatorioides, L., var. coryinbulosa, Terr. & Gray.f Kuhnia. 



Prairies and plains, Illinois to Dakota and Nebraska, and south to Alabama and 

 Texas, Oray's Synoptical Flora of N. A.; therefore doubtless in southern and western 

 Minnesota. 



* LiATRis PUNCTATA, Hook. Stcuis 8 Inchcs to 3 feet high, from a thick, knotted, 

 fusiform root, glabrate, leafy to the top; leaves linear, rigid, strongly punctate on both 

 sides, glabrous or their margins somewhat cillate, lower ones 3 to 5 inches long, slightly 

 3-nerved, l to 3 lines wide, pungently acute; heads in a dense spike, 4 to 10 inches long, 

 4- to6-flovvered ; flowers reddish-purple; scales of the cylindraceous involucre oblong, 

 strongly punctate, imbricated, appressed, with mucronate, acuminate, rather spread- 

 ing tips, margins woolly-cUiate; bristles of the pappus about 30, purplish or white, 

 very plumose ; achenla hairy. Porter and Coulter's Flora of Colorado. 



tKuHNiA EUPATOBioiDES, L., var. CORYMBULOSA, Torr. & Gray. A foot or two 

 high, stouter, somewhat cinereous-pubescent or tomentulose : leaves rather rigid and 

 sessile, from oblong to lanceolate, coarsely veiny : heads rather crowded. Gray's Syn- 

 optical Flora of N . A. 



