Liatris. COilPOSIT-E. 109 



14. C ARPHOCH jfiTE, Gray. (Kap<^os, scale or chaff, and ^am,, bristle, 

 from the pappus.) — Perennial herbs or suffruteseent plants (of New and Xortb- 

 em Mexico 1. glabrous or nearl_v ,~o ; mlh opposite and entire sessile thickish 3-3- 

 nerved but nearly veinless leaves, and solitary or somewhat cln^te^ed heads, 

 terminating leafy or pedunculiform branches: the flowers (about an inch lonsr) 

 much exceeding the involucre : this and the corolla rose-colored : nearly of 

 Liatris habit, and pappus somewhat of Stcvia. — PI. Fendl. 05 • PI AVrio-ht i" s') 

 ii. 71. = • ■ ' 



' C. Bigelovii, Gkat, 1. c. A span to a foot high, -woody at base, fascicTilately branched : 

 lower leaves spa ralate-oblong, inch long, and fasciL-le? of smaller ones in tlieaxils. upper 

 oblong or linear : heads ses.-ile or very i-hort-peduncled, mostly terminating verv leaf v some- 

 what paniculate sliurt branehlets : aristiform paleae of the pappus 11 to 14. and a few verv 

 small exterior squameUa;. — N. Xew Jlexito, Bigelmc. ]Vri]/ht. Greene. Arizona, Print/li. 

 8. W. Texas, Girard. The one or two other species are more herbaceous, slender, and with 

 loose pedunculate heads. 



15. LIATRIS, Schreb. BLAzixr, Star, Button Sxakeeoot. (Xame 

 of unknown derivation.) — Perennial Atlantic X. American herbs ; with simple 

 virgate very leafy stems from a tuberous or mostly globose and corm-lLke stock, 

 bearing reversely racemose or spieate heads of handsome rose-purple flowers 

 (rarely also white), in late summer and autumn ; the leaves all alternate, narrow, 

 entire, rigid or with cartilaginous margins, mostly glabrous or glabrate. — Gen. 

 542 (where Gsertner's name is mentioned; but Gsertner takes up the genus, like 

 Schreber, from the Anoni/mos, ^alt., under the name Suprago, confusing it with 

 Vernonia. and in a volume two years later than Schreber's) ; Torr. & Grav. Fl. 



ii. 67 (excl. § 2 ^t 3) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 248. 



* Pappus very plumose : heads -i-5-flowered: inner involucral bracts with prolongtd petaloid tips. 

 — Calosteliiia^ Don. 



» Li. elegans, Willd. Partly pubescent, 2 to 3 feet high : linear upper leaves commonly 

 soon reflexed ; spike or raceme virgate, dense, 3 to 20 inches long : heads either sessile or on 

 bracteolate pedicels, about half-inch long : bracts of the involucre few-ranked, the inner 

 dilated at tip into an oblong or lanceolate mucronate-acuminate rose-red spreading append- 

 age, which surpasses the flowers and pappus. — Spec. iii. 1065 ; ilichx. Fl. ii. 91 ; Ker, Bot. 

 Eeg. t 2G7: DC. Prodr. v. 129; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. SVyJifiina ek-qous. TValt. Car. 202, 

 Serratuia speciosa. Ait. Kew. iii. 13S. Eupaiorium speciosum. Tent, Gels. t. 79. Liatris 

 radians, Bertol. ilisc. v. 9, t, 1, — Dry pine barrens, Virginia ? to Florida and Texas. 



* * Pappus very plumose: heads 16-60-tlowered, cyliudraceous with turbinate base ; bract? of 

 involucre much imbricated, with herbacco.i- tips if any; libe? of the corolla pilose inside; 

 leaves all linear and rigid, hardly punctate : the lower elongated and graminiform. 



L. squarrosa, TTilld. Pubescent or partly glabrjjos : stem stout, 6 to 20 inches high : 

 heads few (even solitary), or sometimes numerotr^ in a leafy spike or raceme, rarely some- 

 what paniculate, the larger an inch or more long : bracts of the involucre all herbaceous 

 and acimiinate, or with foUaceons or herbaceous (or innermost slightly colored) lanceolate 

 rigid and somewhat pungent tips : these usually sciaarrose-spreading and prolonged. — 

 Torr. & Gray, 1. c, inch yars. JIorit>unda &. compacta. Cirsiftm tuhfros'nn, etc.. Dill, Elth. t. 71, 

 fig, 52. Strrntiila sqnarrosa, L. Spec. ii. SIS. Pleronia Coroiiniana, AValt. Car. 292. — Dry 

 gravelly or sandy soil, TTppei Canada to Florida, Nebraska, and Texas, Passes into 



Var. intermedia, DC, Heads narrow : bracts of the involucre erect or little spread- 

 ing, less prolonged. — Prodr. v. 129 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. with var. compada. L. intermedia, 

 Lindl. Bot, Eeg. t. 94S. — Upper Canada to Nebraska, Louisiana, and Texas. 



L. cylindraoea, ilicex. Mostly glabijus, a foot high: heads few or several, 16-20- 

 flowered, an inch or less long : bracts of the involucre all appressed, barely herbaceous, 

 rounded and abruptly mucronate at tip, the outermost very short. — Fl. ii. 93; EU. Sk. 



