146 LEAFLETS. 
as large, but herbage green, only sparingly hispidulous-rough- 
ened : leaves from oblanceolate in the lowest to elliptic-oblong ` 
and oval in the upper, 3 inches long, the largest 14 inches broad, 
all thin, glabrous except as to the more or less obvious hispid 
ciliolation of the whole margin: stem rather freely branched 
at summit, all the branches clothed up to the heads with large 
sessile oval hispid-ciliolate bracts 1 to 14 inches long: heads 
large, though smaller, than in Æ. macranthus; bracts of invo- 
lucre equal, not at all hairy, EE rays light- 
violet or bluish. 
Santa Rita Mountain, New Mexico, 9 Oct. 1904, O. B. Met- 
calfe n. 1469. 
ASTER ORTHOPHYLLUS. Plants in broad patches from a con- 
nected system of slender horizontal rootstocks ; stems 1 foot 
high, erect or decumbent, corymbose-panicled, notably leafy 
and the foliage remarkably straight and erect ; lowest leaves 
narrowly oblanceolate, the cauline lance-linear and linear, all 
entire and all but the very lowest acutish, green and glabrous 
on both faces, the margins beset with short inflexed hairs: heads 
above middle size; involucres broadly campanulate to hemi- 
spherical; bracts imbricated, appressed, spatulate-linear and 
linear, the outer obtuse, i inner acute, their green tips elliptical 
nearly glabrous, somewhat ciliolate: rays bluish. 
Low grassy lands along the river at Gunnison, Colo., 23 July, 
1900, C. F. Baker, n. 570; and nn. 545, 688 and 820 may all be 
forms of the same species akin to A. adscendens. 
ASTER Wooronu. A. hesperius var. Wootonit, Greene, Bull. 
Torr. Club. xxv. 119. Mr. Baker’s n. 817 from near Gunnison 
represents well that of Mr. Wooton’s distribution from New 
Mexico, and I judge the form worthy of specific rank. — 
ASTER LONCHOPHYLLUS, Stout stems erect, 2 feet high, red- 
purple, thinly white-puberulent, sparsely leafy up to the con- 
tracted subcorymbose panicle : basal leaves not seen, those of 
the stem 3 or 4 inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, entire, 
sessile, the lower by a spatulate base, all of firm texture, green 
and glabrous on both faces, 1-nerved, the margin barely scaber- 
ulous: heads of middle size;-involucres campanulate, bracts 
