Description of a New Species of Liairis. 



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leaves become lance-linear, resembling bracts. Flowers from 2 

 to 10, pale red-purple. Involucre with about 15 florets. 



I have cultivated this plant two years : it increases in size and 

 height. From one root, four stems have arisen more than 22 

 inches high ; but of a dozen plants which I gathered in a state 

 of nature, no root had more than one stem. 



Habitat.— East bank of the Niagara river, below the Falls. 

 Flowers in the eighth month, (August.) 



