318 PITTONIA. 
striate-angled and retrorsely scabro-pubescent: lower leaves 
4 to 6 inches long including the short petiole, the blade 
oblong-lanceolate, punctate and scaberulous above, retrorsely 
scabrous beneath, the smaller and more copious middle 
leaves narow-lanceolate, sessile, scabrous as the others, and 
marginally strongly so: short-campanulate subsessile heads 
i to i inch long, their bracts rather few, densly scabrous, 
not punctate, their broad rounded tips encircled by a narrow 
entire ciliolate scarious margin: style-branches very long 
and slender: pappus subplumose. 
Pine Hills, Illinois, 23 Sept., 1890, F. S. Earle. 
“L. ASPERA. Liatris aspera, Michx. Fl. ii. 92. Stoutish, 
2 feet high, loosely spicate from about the middle: lowest 
leaves narrowly lanceolate, 4 to 6 inches long including the 
petiole, those above somewhat crowded, narrowly spatulate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, 2 or 3 inches long, all punctate and scab- 
rous, the stem tomentulose-pubescent: heads 12 to 20, 
subsessile, subeampanulate, 3 to $ inch high, their bracts 
glabrous, with rounded green and deeply punctate herbace- 
ous tip which is more or less spreading, and encircled by a 
thin erose-dentate purple scarious margin: pappus sub- 
plumose. 
Prairies of Illinois to Kansas and northward. I am not 
able to understand upon what principle a plant so well 
marked as this could be confused, as it has been, with L. 
scariosa. 
NEW or NOTEWORTHY Sprcirs.—X XIX. 
‘PENTSTEMON BAKERI. A large-flowered subalpine dwarf, 
the tallest plants barely 6 inches high, others less than half 
as large, the stoutish decumbent stems leafy at base and 
