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6 mm. wide or less, narrowed into slender, ciliate, partly clasping 

 petioles, otherwise glabrous; stem-leaves similar, but narrower 

 and sessile or nearly so, those of the branches 4-10 mm. long; 

 heads numerous, thyrsoid-corymbose; involucre about 5 mm. 

 high, its bracts in about 4 series, linear, ciliolate or glabrous, 

 obtuse or acutish; rays white, 5-8 mm. long. 



Rocky river-banks, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Type collected on 



Rio Portales, near Guane, March, 191 1 (Britton, Britton & Cowell 



9751). Erroneously recorded by Grisebach as Aster carneus Nees. 



6. Aster dumosus L. Sp. PI. 873. 1753 



Pinelands, high mountains of Santo Domingo; eastern United 

 States. 



7. Aster Bracei Britton; Small, Fl. Miami 190. 1913 



Brackish marshes and savannas, southern Florida, Bahamas, 

 Cuba. 



8. Aster inconspicuus Less. Linnaea 5 : 143. 1830 



Erigeron expansus Poepp.; Spreng. Syst. 3: 518. 1826. Not 



Aster expansus Nees. 



Marshes, ditches and roadsides at lower and middle elevations: 

 Cuba; Jamaica; South Florida; Mexico. 



9. Aster exilis Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 344. 1824 



Wet grounds, provinces of Santa Clara, Havana and Pinar del 

 Rio, Cuba; Andros Island, Bahamas; southeastern and southern 

 United States. 



10. Aster squamatus (Spreng.) Hieron. Bot. Jahrb. 29: 19. 



1901 



Conyza squamata Spreng. Syst. 3: 515. 1826. 



Naturalized along roadsides, especially on Ireland Island and 

 Boaz Island, Bermuda. The plant erroneously listed by Lefroy 

 as Aster Trifolium L., was probably this species, misprinted for 

 A. tripolium L. Native of southern South America. 



