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spreading, bristly-eiliate, otherwise glabrous : rays large, rose-red or 

 purple: acheues sparsely strigose; pappus firm. 



In wet subalpine meadows, toward the limit of trees on Mt. 

 Reinier, Washington; collected by the writer, 21st of August, 1889; 

 probably not rare in the higher Cascades, and possibly forming a 

 part of the confused A. foliaceu* var. frondeus of Gray's Synoptical 

 Flora, but very distinct from the type of that variety, which belongs 

 to a different region. 



Aster frondeus. 

 Aster foliaceus, var. frondeus Gray, Syn. FL, I. Part 2, p. 103, in part only. 



Stems stoutish, decumbent, 1 to 2 feet high, green and nearly 

 glabrous, mostly simple up to the summit and bearing a solitary head, 

 or two or more on very short peduncles : leaves not thin, glabrous 

 except the scabrous-ciliolate margins, entii - e; radical obovate-oblong, 

 petiolate; cauline spatulate; acutish, 2 to 4 inches long, auriculate- 

 clasping : heads rather more than ■, inch high, twice as broad : 

 bracts of involucre of about equal length, the outer ovoid or oblong 

 and amply foliaceous ; inner more spatulate, but herbaceous almost 

 throughout : rays I inch long, light blue or purplish. 



Plant of the Rocky Mountain region in Colorado and Utah, thence 

 northwestward to the borders of California and perhaps Oregon; in- 

 habiting middle altitudes; its habit much like that of Solidago 

 Parn/i (Aphpdppus Parri/i Gray), but heads few or solitary. 



Vagnera pallescens. 



Rather slender, horizontally inclining (not erect), 2 or 3 feet high, 

 the whole plant of a pale glaucous-green, but not glabrous : leaves 

 sessile, ample, ovate- elliptic, obtusish, or with abrupt short apicula- 

 tion, thin and widely spreading, 4 to 6 inches long, nearly glabrous 

 above, rather stiffly hirtellous beneath : panicle of racemes rather 

 open, 4 to 6 inches long: flowers white, very fragrant: berries deep 

 cherry-red . 



Species inhabiting higher than middle elevations of the California 

 Sierra, from at least Fresno Co., northward : very unlike the stout 

 erect upright-leaved bright green V. aviplexicaulis of lower altitudes, 

 and of more northerly range, to which it has been referred. 



2. Revision of Tropidocarpum. 

 To the knowledge of this very noteworthy genus of plants, as it 

 was published by Sir William Hooker almost sixty years since, 



