Family ASTERACEAs 173 
2. Specularia leptocarpa (Nutt.) A. Gray. 
In dry soil, not common. Lincoln; Minden. 
3. Lobelia. 887. 
Flowers scarlet or red, rarely white, 25 mm. or more long. 
1. L. cardinalis. 
Flowers blue or white. 
Flowers 20 mm. long or more. 2. L. syphilitica. 
Flowers 10 mm. long or less. 
Puberulent; stem simple with a single terminal spike; flowers 
8-10 mm. long; capsule not inflated. 3. L. spicata. 
Pubescent; stems branched; spikes several; flowers 4-6 mm. long. 
capsule inflated. 4. L. inflata. 
1. Lobelia cardinalis L. Cardinal-flower. 
In low ground along the Republican river. Franklin. 
2. Lobelia syphilitica L. Great Lobelia. 
Common in low ground over most of the state. Alliance; Bellevue; 
Crawford; Dismal River; Franklin; Kearney; Laurel; La Platte; 
Weeping Water; Wymore. 
3. Lobelia spicata Lam. Pale Lobelia. 
In meadows and in dry soil over most of the state. Broken Bow; 
Cherry county; Clearwater; Franklin; Wahoo; Whitman. 
4. Lobelia inflata L. Indian Tobacco. 
Along the Republican river. Franklin. 
2. ASTERACEZ. (COMPOSITZ2.) 
Aster Family. Composites. 
Key to the Tribes. 
Flowers all ligulate, similar to the ray-flowers of other tribes, but 
perfect; plants with a milky juice (latex). 11. Cichoriez. 
Flowers all tubular or the marignal (rays) ligulate; rays pistillate 
or neutral. 
Receptacle densely bristly; true rays never present, marginal flow- 
ers sometimes enlarged. 10. Cynaree. 
Receptacle naked or chaffy, or if bristly, rays present. 
Flowers all pistillate or staminate; rays wanting; pappus want- 
ing or reduced to a mere ring or border. 6. Ambrosiez. 
Flowers some or all perfect, or pappus of scales or bristles. 
Involucral bracts green, or only the tip or margins scarious. 
Receptacle naked or rarely bristly; pappus often capillary. 
Involucral bracts imbricated in 2—many series. 
Rays wanting; flowers all perfect, never bright yellow. 
Style branches filiform-subulate; leaves alternate; 
pappus never plumose nor heads spicate. 
1. Vernoniez. 
Style branches thickened, obtuse; leaves opposite, or 
if alternate, pappus plumose or heads spicate. 
2. Eupatoriez. 
Rays usually present, if wanting the flowers bright 
yellow or the marginal pistillate. 3. Asterez. 
Involucral bracts little if at all imbricated. 
