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Everywhere with the typical form in New Jersey and Eastern 
Pennsylvania, and its different aspect at once catches the eye of 
an observer, 
» ASTER LowriEanus (A. letophyllis Porter). The good and fit 
name for this species, published in the BuLLETIN (20: 254), being 
antedated by A. leiophyllus Franch. & Sav. (Enum. Fl. Jap.), is 
here replaced by another, given in honor of the late J. Roberts 
Lowrie, who contributed largely to our knowledge of the plants of 
Central Pennsylvania. The varieties noted in the article of the 
BULLETIN just cited must follow this change and become respect- 
_lwely A. Lowricanus lanceolatus Porter and A. Lowrieanus incisus 
(Britton). Two. small specimens of the typical plant, lately 
gathered, exhibit amongst heads of the usual size a few that are 
much larger than the others and like those of A. /evzs, to which it 
is related also by the smoothness and leathery texture of the 
leaves. 
ASTER L&vIs L.—Running through the multitudinous forms 
of this Species, as represented in the Eastern United States, are 
two marked lines of variation, recognized by Dr. Gray in the fifth 
edition of his Manual, but in the Synoptical Flora embraced under 
4 single general description. His earlier judgment seems to me 
better and more consistent. The type of the species (A. cyaneus 
Hoff.) has Ovate leaves of moderate breadth, the lower ones 
abruptly narrowed toward a clasping base. Then comes the 
Variety levigatus (Willd.), with linear-oblong leaves, sometimes 
from 5 to 7 inches in length, and gradually narrowed to a slender, 
“carcely-auricled base, often thin and not glaucous ; and then a 
Second one, with much shorter large broad-ovate leaves, little 
Contracted below and strongly amplexicaul, for which the name 
latifolia is very suitable. Specimens of this variety exist in the . 
Torrey Herbarium, and it has also been collected in the neighbor- 
hood of Easton, Pa. eee 
___ Vaccinium Penxsyzvanicum Lam.—White fruit of this species : 
7.8 obtained last July near Pocono Summit, Monroe county, Pa, 
he color of the berries was not indeed pure white, for, although — o 2 
ety Tipe, they were slightly greenish, and many of them had a 
Rint pinkish tint, and all were pale and somewhat translucent, — : 
: huckleberry “pickers of the region say they occasionally meet 
