782 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry exposed rocky places, imountainous woods, 
Talladega County, Alpine Mountains, 1,800 feet; Renfroe, 1,000 feet. Calhoun County, 
Anniston, highest ridges, about 1,000 feet altitude, Flowers cerulean blue; Septem- 
ber, October. Not infrequent. 
Type locality: “ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Aster undulatus loriformis Burgess in Britt. & Br. 1. FI 3:3865. 1898, 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain. New York to 
South Carolina, 
Type locality : ‘ Fastern Massachusetts to Virginia and Pennsylvania.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Aster cordifolius L.Sp.P1.2:875, 1753. ILEART-LEAF ASTER. 
EM. Sk. 2:361. Gray, Man. ed. 6,259. Chap, Fl. 202. Gray, Syn. PLN. A.1, pt. 2: 182. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia, Ontario; New England west to 
Minnesota and Nebraska; through the Ohio Valley to Missouri, Arkansas, and Ten- 
nessee, and south along the mountains to Georgia, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Woodlands and thickets. Lau- 
derdale County, Florence (A/. C. Wilson). Cullman County. Flowers pale purplish 
blue; September, October. Not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘THab.in America & Asia septentrionali.” 
Ilerb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Aster cordifolius polycephalus Porter, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 120. 1894. 
“More robust and branched than the type: leaves smaller, the upper ones and the 
bracts ovate and sessile; panicle ample; heads usually smaller and very numerous. 
Rays deep blue and the disk florets dark purple (as in 4. faleriflorus), or both of 
them sometimes pale or whitish,” 
ALABAMA: Lauderdale County. — 
Type locality: ‘‘ Everywhere with the typical form in New Jersey and Eastern 
Pennsylvania,” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. 
Aster lowrieanus |’orter, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 121. 1894. 
Aster cordifolius var. laevigatus Porter, Bull. Torr, Club, 16: 67. 1889.) Not uf. laevi- 
gatus Lam. 
Aster leiophyllus Porter, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 254, 6.267. 1893. Not Franch. & Sav. 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. 3: 363. 
Carolinian area. Southern Connecticut and southern New York to Pennsylvania, 
Virginia, Ohio, and Kentueky, and southward along the mountains to Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Open woods. Bluffs on the Tennessee River near 
Florence (/. C. Wilson). September. Not frequent. 
Type locality: “Common in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as westward 
and southward.” 
Aster sagittifolius Wedem,; Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:2035, ARROW-LEAF ASTER. 
EL. Sk. 2:362. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 259. Chap. Fl. 202.) Gray, Syn. PLN. A. 1, pt. 
2: 182. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick, Ontario; New Eneland west 
to Minnesota and Dakota; from New York to the Ohio Valley and along the moun- 
tains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry open woods. Lee County, Auburn (Marle), 
Talladega County, Alpine Mountain, 1,800 feet; Renfroe, 800 feet; Chandler Springs, 
1,500 feet. Cullman County, 800 feet. Calhoun County, Anniston, 800 feet altitude; 
cherty ridges. Rays sky-blue; September, October. Not common, 
Type locality: “© Hab. in America boreali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Aster purpuratus Nees, Gen. & Sp. Ast. 118, 1833, WAND-LIKE ASTER. 
Aster virgatus E11, Sk. 2:353. 1824. Not of Moench. 
Ell. Sk. lec. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 259, Chap. Fl. 201.) Gray, Syn. Fl N, A. 1, pt. 2: 
183. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 195. 
Louisianian area, Coast of North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Along shaded grassy banks, pine- 
barren streams. Escambia County, Wallace, Washington and Mobile counties. 
Flowers cerulean blue. Not infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Crescit in America septentrionali?” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
