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404. Lobelia leptostachys, A. D. C.. Tar. hirtella (A. Gr.) Lobelia. 
Lobelia spicata Lam. Tar. hirtella A. Gr. Syn. FI. II, Ft. 1, 6, 
1878. 
The rough pubescence, strongly callous denticulate leaves and 
bracts, leafv-bracted spikes, and minutely a uric led calyx lobes 
places the plant with this species rather than with L. spicata. 
Low grounds. Common. 
405. Lobelia syphilitica, Lin. Blue Cardinal Flower. 
Low grounds. Common. 
The leaves are a commercial drug and employed as a cathartic 
and emetic chiefly in dropsy. 
Family 81. Composaceae. 
406. Eupatorium maculatum. Lin. Queen-of-the-meadow. 
Swamps. Common. 
The leaves and roots are commercial drugs and employed as 
diuretics in gravel, strangury, etc. 
407. Eupatorium perfoliatum, Lin. Boneset. 
Low grounds. Common. 
The leaves are a commercial drug and are official under the 
name of Eupatorium. Employed as a tonic, diaphoretic and laxa- 
tive in colds, etc. 
408. Laeinaria eylindracea (Mx.) O. K. Button Snake Root. 
Hillsides. Frequent. 
409. Laeinaria scariosa (Liu.) Hill. Button Snake Root. 
Laeinaria scariosa (Lin.) Hill. Yar. eorymlmlosa , Sheldon, 
Minn. Bot. Studies, I. Ft. 2. 77. pi. 0. 1894. 
The Linnean type, is the form with the flower heads on elongated 
lateral peducles. Rough-pubescent. Involucral scales scabrous 
and ciliate. greenish to dark purple. 
Dry or moist grounds. Frequent. 
410. Laeinaria scariosa (Lin.) Hill.. Yar aspera (Mx.) 
Liatris aspera Mx. FI. Bor. Am. IT, 91. 1803. 
Foliage very rough. Involucral scales usually pinkish obtuse 
and squarrose. Heads sessile. 
Fields. Frequent. 
411. Laeinaria scariosa (Lin.) Hill., Yar. spheroidea (Mx.) 
Liatris spheroidea Mx. 1, c. 
Leaves smooth; spikes of few to many large spherical or 
obconic heads, sessile or more or less stipitate; involucral scales, 
smooth, not ciliate, squarrose, obtuse, very pallid. 
Fields. Common. 
412. Laeinaria spicata (Lin.) O. K. Button Snake Root. 
Swamps and bogs. Common. 
The tuberous rhizomes of this and of some other species of ihe 
genus is the commercial drug known as Button Snake Root. 
Used as a diuretic and emmenagogue in gonorrhoea, dysmenor- 
rhoea, amenorrhoea. Bright’s Disease, etc. 
413. Solidago altissima Lin. Goldenrod. 
Low grounds. Common. 
414. Solidago aspera. Ait. Goldenrod. 
Dry fields and woods. Common. 
Solidago aspera. Ait., Yar. axillaris, X. Yar. 
Fanicle elongated; most of the subtending leaves equalling or 
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