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The original specimens were collected by the writer in the 
Ochlockonee River swamp, near Thomasville, Georgia, July 12- 
22, 1895. 
“ AsTER CAMPTOSORUS. 
Perennial, slender. Stems erect, 4~6 dm. tall, finely ridged, 
slightly flexuous, green or purplish green, simple or nearly so, 
glabrous, or very sparingly pubescent near the top; leaves few, 
the blades lanceolate, 6-15 cm. long, resembling the leaves of 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus, attenuate from near the base to the finely 
acute apex, entire, undulate, sometimes crisped, dark green, 
smo th and lustrous above, paler and hispid beneath with a scat- 
tered pubescence, the lower ones deeply cordate at the rounded 
ear-like base, the upper ones subcordate or truncate, petioled; 
petioles ‘slender, villous, the lower ones nearly as long as the 
blades, the upper about + as long as the blades; heads usually 
few; pedicels angled, bearing minute appressed bracts, scabrous 
with short, stiff, spine-like hairs; involucres cylindric-campanu- 
late, constricted at the middle (or turbinate in the dry state), 5 
mm. high, the bracts linear-subulate, in 4 or § series, incurved, with 
a narrow green midrib and green acute tip; corolla about 6 mm. 
long; stamens and style glabrous; rays purple, linear-oblance- 
late, 1 cm. long, slightly 3-toothed at the apex. 
In open woods, in and near the mountains, Georgia and Ala- 
bama. September to October. 
A very curious and handsome species on account of the close 
resemblance of its leaves to those of Camptosorus rhizophyllus. 
Compared with its nearest relative, Aster Shortil, the new species is. 
more slender and, in addition to the Campéosorus-like leaves, and 
the characteristic gradual attenuation from the base to the apex, 
these organs are smooth, dark green and lustrous above. The 
involucre of Aster Shortii is campanulate, whereas that of Aster 
Camptosorus is cylindric-campanulate and constricted at the mid- 
dle; the bracts in the new species are rigid, linear-subulate 
and incurved, while those of Aster Shorti are rather thin, hardly 
rigid and simply linear. 
Fine specimens were sent to me by Prof. Carl F. Baker from 
Wright’s Mill, five miles south of Auburn, Alabama. They were 
collected on October 17, 1896. In addition to these I find an old 
sheet in the Columbia University Herbarium on which are two 
specimens collected in the mountains of Georgia by Mr. Buckley. 
