WOOTON AND STANDLEY PLOEA OP NEW MEXICO. 649 



8. LACINIARIA Hill. Blazing star. 



Handsome perennial lierbs witli 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 jilumose 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. landfoUa. 



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



trinervate 3. L. ligulistylis. 



1. Laciniaria punctata (Hook.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 349. 1891. 

 Liatris 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: "\i\Tiite Mountains, New Mexico. T;!/pe collected by Woo ton 

 (no. 254). 

 Range: Southeastern New Mexico. 

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



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



Liatris 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: Sien-a Grande {Howell 212). 



9. KTJHNIA 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 cylindric, lO-striate; pappus a single row of plumose bristles. 



KEY TO the species. 



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



series, pubescent only on the margins, strongly glandular. . 1. K. rosmarinifolia. 



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

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

 glandular 2. K. chlorolepis. 



1. Kuhnia rosmarinifolia Vent. PI. Jard. Cels pi. 91. 1800. 



Eupatorium canescens Orteg. Hort. Matr. Dec. 34. 1797-1800, not Vahl, 1793. 



Kuhnia leptophylla Scheele, Linnaea 21: 598. 1849. 



Type locality: Given as Cuba, but this is probably incorrect and should be Mexico. 



Range: Texas and Arizona to Mexico. 



New Mexico: Dulce; Pajarito Park; Cleveland; Pecos; Laguna; Anton Chico; 

 Socorro; Kingston; Mogollon Mountains; Dona Ana and Organ mountains; ^^'hite and 

 Sacramento mountains; Artesia; Carlsbad ; Nara Visa. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran 

 and lower part of the Transition zones. 



