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a. Lanceolata, the var. described above. Anon. Ramos. Walt. L. Squar- 
i'ulosa. Mich. 
b. Intermedia. Stem leaves longer than in the preceding var. pubescent. 
Involucrum containing twenty-four to thirty flowers. Scales obovate, con- 
spicuously fringed. Grows on Long Island. Dr. Torrey. An intermediate 
species between this and L. Spheroidea — perhaps belonging to the latter. 
c. Diversifolia. Lower leaves large, glabrous. Stem leaves much smaller 
than in the two preceding varieties, slightly pubescent. Stem almost to- 
mentose. Involucrum containing about twenty flowers. Scales obovate, 
pubescent along the margins. 
d . Foliosa. Leaves of the stem long, linear lanceolate, nearly glabrous. 
Raceme long ; through the greater part of its length the leaves at the base 
of each peduncle are longer than the peduncles and flowers. Involucrum 
about fourteen flowered. Scales obovate, glabrous. 
e. Confertiflora. Leaves lanceolate, the lower glabrous, very acute, the 
upper srflall, aT little hairy ; all somewhat crowded. Flowers in a compact 
spike. Involucrum containing fourteen to twenty flowers. Scales obovate, 
nearly glabrous. Grows along the western frontier of Georgia. 
Grows in dry soils. 
Flowers, August— October. 
14. Spheroidea. Mich. 
L. foliis laevibus; in- 
ferioribus lato lanceo- 
latis; superioribus lan- 
ceolate* linearibus; ra- 
ce mo floribus majuscu- 
lis, solitariis, alternis; 
involucris subglobosis; 
squamis ovalibus, erec 
tis. 
Leaves smooth, the 
lower broad, lanceo- 
late, the upper narrow; 
flower of the raceme 
large, solitary, alter- 
nate; involucrum near- 
ly globular, the scales 
oval, erect. 
Mich. 2. p. 92. Pursh, 2. p. 509. 
Root tuberous, perennial. Stem two to four feet high, a little pubescent. 
Leaves lanceolate, acute, dotted, glabrous, somewhat coriaceous. The low- 
er ones large, attenuated into a petiole at base, four to five inches long. 
Flowers large, in a simple terminal raceme. Involucrum spheroidal, con- 
taining many florets; scales oval or obovate, very obtuse, coloured, slightly- 
fringed, sometimes fimbriate, and sprinkled with glandular dots. Florets bright 
purple, longer than the involucrum. Seeds very hairy, crowned with a pap- 
pus not conspicuously feathered. 
Grows in the upper districts of Carolina. Edgefield, Mr. Oemler. 
Flowers, August — October. 
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