. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Lacinaria elegans (Walt.) Kuntze. Handsome Blazing Star. j Fig. 4179. Stoepelina elegans Walt. Fl. Car. 202. 1788. Liatris elegans Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1635. 1804. Lacinaria elegans Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 349. 1891. Densely and finely pubescent, rarely glabrate, 2°-3° high. Leaves linear, very punctate, l'-S' long, i"-3" wide, the upper much smaller th
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Lacinaria elegans (Walt.) Kuntze. Handsome Blazing Star. j Fig. 4179. Stoepelina elegans Walt. Fl. Car. 202. 1788. Liatris elegans Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1635. 1804. Lacinaria elegans Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 349. 1891. Densely and finely pubescent, rarely glabrate, 2°-3° high. Leaves linear, very punctate, l'-S' long, i"-3" wide, the upper much smaller than the lower and soon reflexed; heads 4-5-flowered, 6"-7" high, narrowly campanulate, very numerous in a dense spike or raceme sometimes a foot long; bracts of the involucre in 2 or 3 series, the inner ones linear, dilated above into oblong or lanceo- late acuminate rose-colored petaloid tips, or some- times white; pappus very plumose; flowers purple. In dry soil, Virginia to Florida, Alabama, Arkan- sas and Texas. 4. Lacinaria punctata (Hook.) Kuntze. Dotted Button-Snakeroot. Fig. 4180. Liatris punctata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 306. pi. 5$. 1833. Lacinaria punctata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 349. 1891. Glabrous, or sparingly pubescent, &-30' high; root- stock stout, branching, or globose. Leaves linear, rigid, very punctate, 2'-6' long, about 1" wide, or the lower 2", the upper gradually shorter, all erect or ascending; heads 3-6-flowered, 6"-8" long, sessile, crowded into a dense spike; spike commonly leafy below; involucre narrowly campanulate, acute or acutish at the base, its bracts oblong, cuspidate or acuminate, often ciliate on the margins, sometimes woolly, imbricated in 4 or 5 series; flowers purple; pappus very plumose. In dry soil, Minnesota to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Montana, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico and Sonora. Recorded from Ohio. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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