2. L. squarròsa, Willd. (BLAZING-STAR, etc.) Often hairy (6´--2° high); leaves rigid, linear, elongated; heads usually few (1´ long); _scales mostly with elongated and leaf-like spreading tips._--Dry soil, Penn. to Minn., and southward.--Var. INTERMÈDIA, DC. Heads narrow; scales shorter, erect or nearly so.--Ont. to Neb. and Tex. 3. L. cylindràcea, Michx. Commonly smooth (6--18´ high); leaves linear; _heads_ few (½--{2/3}´ long); _scales with short and rounded abruptly mucronate appressed tips._--Dry open places, Niagara Falls to Minn. and Mo. [*][*][*] _Pappus very plumose; heads 4--6-flowered; scales acuminate; corolla-lobes naked._ 4. L. punctàta, Hook. Stout (10--30´ high), from a branching or globose rootstock; leaves narrowly linear or the upper acerose, rigid; heads usually many in a dense spike.--Minn. to Kan., and southward. [*][*][*][*] _Pappus not obviously plumose to the naked eye; corolla-lobes smooth inside._ 5. L. scariòsa, Willd. Stem stout (2--5° high), pubescent or hoary; _leaves_ (smooth, rough, or pubescent) _lanceolate_; the lowest _oblong-lanceolate or obovate-oblong_, tapering into a petiole; heads few or many, large, 25--40-flowered; _scales of the broad or depressed involucre obovate or spatulate, very numerous, with dry and scarious often colored tips or margins._--Dry soil, New Eng. to Minn., and southward.--Widely variable; heads 1´ or less in diameter. 6. L. pycnostàchya, Michx. Hairy or smoothish; stem stout (3--5° high), very leafy; leaves linear-lanceolate, the upper very narrowly linear; _spike thick and dense_ (6--20´ long), heads about 5-flowered (½´ long); _scales of the cylindrical involucre oblong or lanceolate, with recurved or spreading colored tips_.--Prairies, from Ind. to Minn., and southward. 7. L. spicàta, Willd. Smooth or somewhat hairy; stems very leafy, stout (2--5° high); leaves linear, the lower 3--5-nerved; heads 8--12-flowered ({1/3}--½´ long), crowded in a long spike; _scales of the cylindrical-bell-shaped involucre oblong or oval, obtuse, appressed, with slight margins; achenes pubescent or smoothish_.--Moist grounds; common from Mass. to Minn., and southward.--Involucre often resinous, very smooth. Var. montàna, Gray. Low and stout; leaves broader, obtuse; spike short and heads large.--Mountain-tops, Va., and southward. 8. L. graminifòlia, Willd. Hairy or smoothish; stem (1--3° high) slender, leafy; leaves linear, elongated, 1-nerved; heads several or numerous, in a spike or raceme, 7--12-flowered; _scales of the obconical or obovoid involucre spatulate or oblong, obtuse, or somewhat pointed, rigid, appressed; achenes hairy_.--Va. and southward.--Inflorescence sometimes panicled, especially in Var. dùbia, Gray. Scales of the involucre narrower and less rigid, oblong, often ciliate.--Wet pine barrens, N. J., and southward. 9. TRÍLISA, Cass.