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Flowers in leafy, virgate panicles, "wilh the branches few-flowcrod ; in- 

 volucre sessile, secund, 3 — 5-flo\vcred ; scales erect, lanceolate-acute, 

 glabrous, Elliott. 



b. Suffnu'licose. 



16. L, FRUcnco'sA, (Nutt.) Leaves obovate, glabrous, branching; 

 lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, cuneate, oblong, entire. 

 Branches corymbose, naked toward tlie summit ; involucre campan- 

 ulate, about 6-flowered ; scales imbricate, in about 3 series ; outer 

 shortest. Achenia pubescent. — 2^. East Florida. 



c. Root a rhizoma. Leaves dilated. 



17. L. rANicuLA'TA, (Willd.) Stem erect, hairy, viscid, colored, and 

 brandling toward the summit. Radical leaves spatulate, lanceolate, 

 dentate, glabrous ; cauline leaves sessile, nerved, ovate-lanceolate, hairy. 

 Flowers in terminal panicles ; branches 4 — 6-flowered ; involucre 4 — 5 

 florets, 6 — 8-leaved. Corolla viscid. Seeds hairy ; pappus purple. — 

 Purple. If. Sept. — Oct. Pine-barrens. 1 — 2 feet. 



18. L, ODORATis'siMA, (Willd.) Stem erect, simple, glabrous, striate, 

 purple. Leaves ovate or lanceolate ; radical ones spatulate, somewhat 

 dentate; cauline ones clasping. jF'^m)^?)-^ in corymbose panicles ; invo 

 lucre usually with 7 florets, 10 — 12-leaved. Leaves appressed, gla 

 brous. Seeds hsdvj; pappus colored. — Purple. If. Sept. — Oct. 3 — 

 4 feet. Vanilla-plant. 



The root of the Liatris spicnta is said to possess powerful diuretic properties, and 

 is used in the form of a decoction, as a gargle for sore throat. 



The L. scaviosa and squarrosa are said to be an antidote to the poison of the rat- 

 tlesnake, and are used to cure the bite of this animal : the former is known by our plan- 

 tation negroos as the rattlesnake's master. 



Genus IX.— KUIINIA. L. 



(In honor of Adam Kuhn, a pupil of Linna-us.) 



Livolucre cylindrical, imbricate, 10 — 25-flowered ; florets all 

 perfect, tubular. Receptacle naked ; pappus plumose, sessile. 

 Seed pubescent, striate. 



1. K. eupatorioi'des, (L.) Stem glabrous, branching, the young 

 branches very pubescent. Leaves broad-lanceolate, irregularlj' serrate, 

 petiolate, slightly scabrous on the upper surface, pubescent beneath, 

 spotted. Flowers in panicles, terminal ; involucre about lO-flowered, 

 with linear, pubescent leaves, the outer ones small. Seeds pubescent.—- 

 White. If. Sept.— Oct. Middle and Western Geo. and Ala. 2— 3 ft. 



2. K. Critonia, (Ell.) Stem pubescent, slender, striate. Ljeaves lan- 

 ceolate or linear, petiolate, entire, with the margin revolute wlun 

 young, dotted beneath. Flowers in terminal, divaricate panicles ; in- 

 volucre imbricate, with 8 — 10 flowers. X^ares linear, pubescent; outer 

 ones reflexed at the summit. Seed cylindrical ; pappus of numerous 

 plumose rays. — White. If. Sept. — Oct. In dry soils. Common. 2 

 • — 3 feet. 



Genus X.— BRICKEL'LIA. Ell. 

 (In honor of Dr. P.rickell, of Savann.ih.) 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre campanulato, iiiibricate. 

 Re.cejitnch naked, flat, or slia-htlv convex, Achcn'ia H», striate, 



