368 
to. Lacinaria pilosa ( Ait.) Heller. 
Moun- 
tain Button-Snakeroot. Fig. 4186. 
Serratula pilosa Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 138. 1789. 
L. pilosa Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 6. 
Glabrous, except the ciliate leaf-bases and 
involucral bracts, 5’-34° tall, simple. Leaves 
rather numerous, the basal often fully half as 
long as the stem, with broadly linear or linear- 
oblong blades, the upper stem leaves much 
smaller, with linear blades, all more or less 
ciliate near the base; involucres turbinate, 23”-3” 
broad, sessile or short-peduncled, the bracts 
purple, the outer ovate or oval, the middle ones 
with oval or ovate blades and short claws, the 
inner linear or linear-spatulate, all obtuse and 
rather broadly margined; pappus barbellate; 
achenes 23”-3” long, hairy. 
1900. 
In dry or rocky soil, Virginia and West Virginia 
July-Sept. 
to Georgia and Alabama. 
COMPOSITAE. 
Vor. III. 
g. Lacinaria graminifolia (Walt.) 
Kuntze. Loose-flowered Button- 
Snakeroot. Fig. 4185. 
Anonymos graminifolius Walt. Fl. Car. 197. 
1788. 
Liatris graminifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 
2: 508. 1814. Not Willd. 1804. 
L. graminif. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl.349. 1891. 
Liatris graminifolia var. dubia A. Gray, 
Man. Ed. 2, 185. 1856. 
Glabrous, or sparingly pubescent, 1°-3° 
high. Leaves similar to those of the pre- 
ceding species, but more conspicuously 
punctate, usually somewhat ciliate, at 
least near the base and acute or acutish 
at the apex; heads spicate, racemose or 
sometimes panicled, mostly peduncled; 
involucre obovoid, narrowed or acute at 
the base, 2”-4” broad, its bracts dis- 
tinctly punctate, appressed, rounded, 
more or less scarious-margined, thick; 
flowers purple; pappus_ barbellate; 
achenes hairy. 
In dry soil, New Jersey to Florida. 
Aug.—Sept. 
Fine- 
leaved blazing-star. 
11. Lacinaria Smallii Britton. Small’s 
Button-Snakeroot. Fig. 4187. 
Lacinaria Smallii Britton, Manual 927. 1901. 
Similar to L. graminifolia. Stem very slender, 
1°-2° high. 
wide, acute, pubescent on the midvein beneath, 
spreading, very punctate; heads scattered, ses- 
sile in the axils of the upper small leaves, the 
uppermost leaves not larger than the involucral 
bracts; involucre oblong-campanulate, about 
8-flowered, about 5” high, its innermost bracts 
linear, acute or acutish, the outermost obtusish, 
all punctate; flowers purple; pappus plumose. 
, 
Leaves scattered, linear, 2’-5” 
Iron Mountain, Smyth Co., Virginia. Aug. 
Lacinaria Hélleri (Porter) Heller, of the North 
Carolina mountains, 
bracts and erect or ascending leaves, is recorded. 
from Virginia. 
with narrower involucral 
