316 PITTONIA. 
curled hairs: lowest leaves few, narrowly lanceolate, petio- 
late, prominently 5-nerved, the lower cauline linear, 2 
inches long, gradually diminishing to a series of subulate 
linear short bracts, all glabrous except a few scattered hairs 
on the lower face and chiefly along the midvein: spike 
loose: inyolucres cylindrical, 5-flowered, their bracts about 
10 or 12, the lowest ovate, ciliate, the inner ones oblong, 
glabrous, 1-nerved, acutish and with little marginal scari- 
ousness: achenes pubescent with short appressed hairs; 
pappus barbellulate. 
In low pine barrens at Covington, Louisiana, collected 8 
Nov., 1885, by the late Rev. Fr. Langlois. Remarkable for 
its late flowering. The corms are destitute of the fibrous 
coating seen in those of other species. 
v L. Earner.  Rigidly erect, stoutish, 2 feet high or more, 
leafy to below the middle, thence narrowly and strictly race- 
mose, the small campanulate heads 50 or more, herbage glab- 
rous except for a few bristly marginal hairs at bases of 
some leaves, lightly punctate: leaves narrowly lanceolate 
and linear, rigid, spreading, or the larger lower ones ascend- 
ing: heads about 4 inch high, on pedicels as long or longer; 
bracts many, appressed, with rounded not scarious but pur- 
ple-margined and somewhat ciliolate tips: achenes rather 
strongly hirsute; pappus barbellate or subplumose. 
Near Auburn, Ala., Sept, 1896, F. S. Earle. Certainly 
allied to L. scariosa, and remarkable for its small and very 
numerous heads forming a long strict raceme. 
“L. ELEGANTULA. Very slender, 1 to 2 feet higb, leafy 
toward the base, bracteate from below the middle, loosely 
subspicate or racemose toward the summit: leaves narrowly 
lanceolate and with a broad petiole, the whole 3 to 6 inches 
