_ ee ee 
Star,” “ Rattlesnake-Plant,” &c. &e., and to be found in 
pine-barrens and sandy fields from New Jersey to Carolina. 
Liarris gracilis of Pursh seems a variety of pilosa with 
smoother foliage and smaller flowers. 
Drawn in October last at Messrs. Colvill’s, in the 
King’s Road. Introduced by Mr. William Young in 1783. 
A hardy tuberous-rooted perennial. Tuber ovate. Stem 
almost always simple, from nine inches to a foot and a half 
or more in height, about as thick as a duck’s quill, up- 
right, fluted, thinly or thickly haired, loosely leaved. Stem- 
leaves, scattered, spreading, linear, taper-pointed, glandu- 
larly dotted, either hairy or nearly smooth, midrib paler 
and sunk above, slightly prominent in a double line under- 
neath: from about two inches long, gradually growing 
shorter as they ascend the stem. Raceme manyflowered, of 
various lengths, upright, simple, rather close-pressed ; flowers 
upright, widishly apart, smaller than in scariosa, violet-red, 
scentless, axillary, solitary, with an end-one: peduncles 
slender, hairy, fluted, 1-2 inches long, leafily scaled at the 
top, uppermost longer than the subtended leaf. Calyx 
_ herbaceous, turbinately cylindrical, surrounded at the lower 
part by the leaflets of the peduncle, oblong, smooth, glan- 
dularly dotted, imbricated in triple or quadruple order; 
leaflets upright and straight, lanceolately oblong, slightly 
convex, fringed, inner ones longer and something narrower, 
with a coloured but very shallow border.’ Florets many, 
equal, bending towards the circumference of the flower, over- 
topping the calyx, long-funnelform, slender, glittering ; 
tube continuous with the widened faua; limb twice shorter 
than the two together, stellately spreading, smooth, of a 
litac-red on the inside, white on the outside; segments ob- 
long taper-pointed. Receptacle naked, dotted, narrow, 
slightly convex: germen oblong cuneately tapered, fluted, 
shaggy, pale, shorter than the seedcrown, standing on a 
very short fine wiry pedicle: pappus capillary, feathered, of 
many pieces, + shorter than the floret. Stigmas and anthers 
as in scariosa (see above fol. 590). 
