16 Rhodora [JANUARY 
Tourelle, August 19-21, 1905, Collins & Fernald; springy coniferous 
woods along “ Low’s Trail,” at base of Table-top Mountain, August 
14, 1906, Collins & Fernald, no. 738; banks of Beescie River, Anti- 
costi, July 31, 1883, J. Macoun, no. 7. 
Somewhat simulating A. foliaceus, var. Parryi Gray, but that plant, 
as represented by the original Parry material from Colorado, has the 
strongly ascending leaves smaller and rapidly decreasing to the sum- 
mit, and the corymb much less leafy than in var. subpetiolatus, which 
in its extreme form suggests some forms of the smaller-headed A. 
tardiflorus L. 
A. FOLIACEUS, var. subgeminatus, n. var., caule 2.5-5 cm. alto, 
glabro; folis adscendentibus ellipticis vel anguste elliptico-ovatis 
longe acuminatis basi subpetiolaribus serratis, mediis 7-12 em. longis 
1.5-2.5 em. latis; ramis pedicellisque perbrevibus arcte adscendenti- 
bus, pedicellis plerumque apice 2-cephalis; involucro 5-6 mm. alto, 
bracteis oblanceolatis chartaceis apice valde herbaceis. 
Stem 2.5-5 em. high, glabrous; leaves ascending, elliptic or nar- 
rowly elliptic-ovate, long-acuminate, with subpetiolar base, serrate; 
the median 7-12 em. long, 1.5-2.5 em. broad: branches and pedicels 
very short, strongly ascending, the pedicels usually terminated by 2 
heads: involucre 5-6 mm. high; its bracts linear-oblanceolate, charta- 
ceous, conspicuously herbaceous at tip.— NEWFOUNDLAND: damp 
bushy ravine in the limestone tableland, altitude 200-300 m., Table 
Mountain, Port-à-Port Bay, August 16, 1910, Fernald, Wi -gand & 
Kittredge, no. 4126. 
In foliage strongly resembling vars. Parryi and subpetiolatus, in 
habit like typical A. foliaceus, but distinguished from all the described 
varieties in its small usually paired heads and in the absence of the 
outer foliaceous bracts. In foliage also suggesting A. tardiflorus L. 
(unknown in Newfoundland) but readily distinguished by its broader 
and firmer involucral bracts and by the very few short erect pedicels. 
Material from the valley of Harry’s River (no. 4120) strongly simu- 
lates var. subgeminatus, but has the involucre with more foliaceous 
outer bracts. 
ASTER anticostensis, n. sp., caule solitario 4 dm. alto, subflexuoso 
glabro; foliis coriaceis lineari-lanceolatis utroque attenuatis basi 
subcordatis margine integris scabris, mediis 1.2-1.6 dm. longis 1 em. 
latis; ramis arcte adscendentibus, pedicellis plerumque 2-5 cm. 
longis monocephalis efoliatis vel 1-2 foliis instructis: involucro hemi- 
sphaerico 1 cm. alto, bracteis valde imbricatis 3-4-seriatis, oblongis 
1.5-2 mm. latis duris vel subcoriaceis flavescentibus apice sub- 
herbaceis; ligulis violaceis circa 1.5 cm. longis; pappo l-seriato 
setis barbellatis; achaeniis setosis. 
