58 Rhodora [Marcu 
Page 802, for lines 49 and 50, substitute: 
Bracts without firm subulate tips. 
Rays less than 1 em. long . . ( 38) A. dumosus, v. Dodgei. 
Rays 1.5-2 cm. long . . . . E 55. A. nemoralis. 
Page 803, line 22; for (34) A. depauperatus, v. parviceps read 34. 
A. parviceps 
line 43; before Kan. insert: Mo. (Bush) and 
Page’ 805, line 31; after stems insert: (1.2—) 
line 33; for oblong-lanceolate read from elliptic-ovate to 
oblanceolate 
lines 43 and 44; for Moist ground, coast of N. J. and southw. 
read Open ground, chiefly among the mts., s. e. Ky. 
to N. C. and Ga. 
[Aster surculosus Michx., originally collected “in sylvis 
Carolinae septentrionalis,” is a clearly marked species, 
with glandless though often pubescent blunt involucral 
bracts, very typical of the mountain region of western 
North Carolina and the adjacent states. It has long 
been reported as growing in the New Jersey pine barrens, 
although Dr. Britton, in the Illustrated. Flora, implies 
a doubt as to its presence in New Jersey. There are 
apparently two sources for the New Jersey report: 
first, Dr. Gray's record, in the Synoptical Flora, of the 
species from “coast of New Jersey to Georgia, and on 
the Blue Ridge in North and South Carolina"; second, 
the record by Dr. Britton, in his Catalogue of Plants 
found in New Jersey, of the species from Middlesex Co., 
N.J. Dr. Britton’s later doubt of the occurrence of the 
plant in New Jersey, implied in the Illustrated Flora, 
disposes of the second record. It remains then to 
determine only the basis of Dr. Gray’s record. This is 
a very slender narrow-leaved plant, collected by Dr. 
Gray in 1833 at Middletown Point. In its narrow 
leaves and slender habit it strongly suggests the Caro- 
linian A. surculosus but unlike that plant it has the 
more pointed involucral bracts densely glandular as in 
A. spectabilis Ait. "е plant, however, is much smaller 
in all its parts than well developed A. spectabilis and 
upon casual examination would be scarcely referred to it; 
