1914] Fernald,— Some annual halophytic Asters 59 
couna in 1904. But of the peculiar plants from the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence we now have an abundance of material; and it is clear that the 
rayless one is distinct from the species with which the earlier and 
inadequate collection was placed and that the other, from Nepisiguit 
Bay, is a pronounced variety of the southern A. subulatus. 
The rayless plant may be called 
Aster (Conyzopsis) laurentianus, n. sp., planta annua ubique 
carnosa 3-25 cm. alta, caule subsimplici vel cum ramis brevibus axil- 
laribus racemosis l-capitatis instructo vel interdum ramis elongatis; 
foliis lineari-spathulatis vel -lanceolatis obtusis vel acutiusculis mu- 
cronatis integris 2-6 cm. longis 2-7 mm. latis; involucro hemi- 
spherico-campanulato, bracteis 2—3-seriatis plerumque foliaceis carno- 
sis lanceolatis lineari-spathulatis vel lineari-oblongis acuminatis 
mucronatis plerumque subaequalibus 5-8 mm. longis, exterioribus 
3-5 valde elongatis 8-18 mm. longis 1-2 mm. latis; corollis exteriori- 
bus numerosis filiformibus eligulatis stylo brevioribus, corollis cen- 
tralibus paucis filiformibus limbo campanulato 4—5-fido flavescentibus 
stigmata purpurascentia subaequantibus; achaeniis pilosis. 
Annual, glabrous throughout, fleshy, 3-25 em. high; the stem sub- 
simple or with short axillary racemose 1-headed branches or occasion- 
ally with elongate branches: leaves linear-spatulate or -lanceolate, 
obtuse or acutish, mucronate, entire, 2-6 cm. long, 2-7 mm. wide: 
involucre hemispherical-campanulate: the bracts in 2-3 series, mostly 
foliaceous and fleshy, lanceolate, linear-spatulate or linear-oblong, 
acuminate, mucronate, mostly subequal, 5-8 mm. long; the exterior 
3-5 very elongate, 8-18 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide: the outer corollas 
numerous, filiform, without rays, shorter than the style; central 
corollas few, filiform, with a 4-5-toothed campanulate limb, yellowish, 
about equaling the purplish stigmas: achenes pilose.— PRINCE 
Epwarp Istanp: damp sand back of the strand, Tignish, August 6, 
1912 (barely in anthesis), Fernald, Long & St. John, no. 8163; salt 
marshes, Brackley Point, September 5, 1888, J. Macoun (distributed 
as A. subulatus); damp brackish sands, Brackley Point, August 31, 
1912, Fernald, Long & St. John, no. 8166 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); wet 
brackish sand, Grand Tracadie, August 31, 1912, Fernald, Long & St. 
John, no. S167. MAGDALEN ISLANDS: wet brackish sand or mud at 
the margin of a pond southwest of Etang du Nord village, Grindstone 
Island, August 15, 1912, Fernald, Long & St. John, no. S164. Figs. 
1-3. 
‘Var. magdalenensis, n. var., humilis 3-5 cm. altus valde carnosus; 
foliis spathulatis apice rotundatis vel obtusis; bracteis exterioribus 
5-11 haud elongatis spathulatis vel oblongis vel anguste ellipticis 
plerumque obtusis 8-10 mm. longis 2-4 mm. latis. 
Low, 3-5 em. high, very fleshy: leaves spatulate, rounded or obtuse 
at apex: outer bracts 5-11, not at all elongated, spatulate, oblong or 
