THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 27 



ing Of rafely spreading branches short (five cm. or less), 

 leaf3'-bractate, termhiated by solitary heiids often one and 

 one-half cm. across ; or the branches longer with the 

 heads solitar_vat the tips of the remote, slender branchlets. 

 A characteristic plant of northeastern river banks £ind 

 ledgy shores, flov^'ering from late July to earh^ September." 



He gives six stations for it on the banks ot Maine 

 rivers and one in Canada adjacent. I find it abundant on 

 the rocky banks of the Connecticut, and it may be expect- 

 ed in a much wider range, certainly in Massachusetts and 

 New York. It grows here with Senecio halsamitse, and 

 like it, fastens itself so strongly in the cracks of the rocks 

 that it cannot be pulled out. Its flowering season here is 

 nearly a month earlier than that given above. 



The plant is glabrous, generally small, being from six 

 to sixteen inches high, though I have seen it two feet high. 

 The heads are of good size, twice as high and wide as 

 those of A> vinuneus^ and the disk flowers are purple. 

 The leaves resemble those of small forms oi Aster tardu 

 Borus. The}' are toothed from the middle, narrowed at 

 the base but not into a petiole, somewhat clasping, rather 

 short, being from two to three inches long and about one* 

 half of an inch wide. 



Mr. Fernald considers this plant as an extreme form of 

 A. vimJneus Lam. var. foliolosus, Gray. It seems to be 

 too extreme a form altogether and probably might have 

 been made a variety of some other .species for as good rea- 

 sons. A. vimineus is a tall, bush}' plant, growing in moist 

 soil, with horizontal branches, a great profusion of very 

 small heads and long, linear-lanceolate, entire, drooping 

 leaves, and it blossoms late in the season. None of these 

 are chafacteristics of this plant which it seems to me 

 should be treated as a species. I therefore name it Aster 



SAXATILIS. 



This plant should be sought in other places. It is like- 

 to be found in all the northeastern states. 

 Westminister. Vt, 



