Two new composites from Florida 
S. F. BLAKE 
(WITH PLATE 9) 
Lacinaria Ohlingerae Blake, sp. nov. 
Perennial, his cm. high, the stem puberulous; leaves very 
numerous, linear, 1-2 mm. wide, punctate, glabrous; heads 
large, about 2.5 om high, about 25-flowered, turbinate, racemose 
mose-panicled; involucre ae , the phyllaries 
rounded or the innermost obt , appressed, herba- 
unc 
ceous with narrow, scarious, purplish, Siliolate e margins; achenes 
densely Jota 7-9 mm. long; pappus bristles finely plumose 
under a len 
Root nee sometimes 3-lobed, 2.5-4.5 cm. 
long, about 1 cm. thick; stems 1-3 or more, slender, erect, 
cm. high, rather densely incurved-puberulous, gland- 
dotted, simple or cymosely branched in the inflorescence, very 
leafy; leaves all narrowly linear, gradually decreasing in size 
above, I-5.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, acute or acutish, callous- 
tipped, sessile, thick, 1-nerved, often twisted, densely punctate, 
glabrous; heads mostly 8 to 18, racemose on bracteolate pedicels 
0.5-5 cm. long, or cymose-panicled on elongate erect 1 to 7- 
headed peduncles; involucre turbinate or in fruit turbinate- 
subglobose, about 7-seriate, graduate, 1.5-2 cm. high, the 
outermost phyllaries small, suborbicular, rather loose, the 
others oval.or obovate to cuneate-oblong, 2-5 mm. wide, 
broadly rounded or the innermost obtuse, not mucronulate, 
appressed, all herbaceous, densely punctate, essentially glabrous 
dorsally, with narrow, scarious, usually purplish, ciliolate 
margins; disk 2.2-2.5 cm. high, 22—25-flowered; corollas rose- 
purple, 1.4-2 cm. long, sessile-glandular, the tube and throat 
slenderly trumpet-shaped, the teeth ovate, obtusish, 4-veined, 
5-5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide (limb in flower I-1.1 cm. wide); 
achenes narrowly obconic, 10-ribbed, 7-9 mm. long, densely 
and griseously spreading-pilosulous, gland-dotted between the 
ribs; pappus bristles numerous, 2-seriate, finely plumose, 
whitish, 1.5 cm. long; anther appendages very small. 
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