zine (July 20th, 1898, p. 60, English part). Hitsusoa re- 
mains as a sectional name for a few species of Aster — 
wholly, or almost wholly, wanting a pappus, and which — 
includes besides H. cantoniensis, DO. (syn. H. pekinensis, 
Hance), A. Piccolii, one, or perhaps more, unpublished 
Chinese plants. 
Aster Piccolit was raised at the Royal Botanical Gardens, 
Kew, from seeds collected in the province of Shensi, in H, 
China, by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit Mission, Hankow, 
and which were sent to Kew in 1897 by G. Murray, Hsq,., 
F.R.S., Keeper of the Herbarium of the British Museum. 
It flowered in the Herbaceous collection in September, 
1898, and is quite hardy. wi 
Deser.—A stout, leafy, hispidly scaberulous, sub-erect, 
perennial herb, two to three feet high; stem and branches 
terete, green. Leaves three to four inches long, sessile, 
oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, coarsely 
unequally serrate, dark green above, paler beneath, three- 
nerved at the base, nerves impressed above, very stout 
beneath. Heads many, sub-corymbose, two inches in 
diameter; peduncles with a-small oblong leaf at the base 
of the involucre, otherwise naked, or with one or two 
sessile leaves at or above the middle. Involuere sub- 
hemispheric, outer bracts three- to four-seriate, broadly 
oblong, herbaceous, with purple, reflexed, rounded tips; 
inner one- to two-seriate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, margins 
broadly scarious, fimbriate. fteceptacle conico-hemispheri¢. 
Ray-flowers biseriate, tube (and of the disk-fl.) glandular, 
ligule linear, lilac-purple. Dish-flowers golden-yellow; 
pappus 0.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 
flower; 
enlarged, 
1, Section of involucre showing the receptacle; 2, inner bract; 3, Tay 
4, disk-Hower; 5, stamens; 6, style-arms of disk-flowers :— 
