178 COMPOSITE. Aster. 



A. Kingii, Eaton. A span or less high, cespitose : leaves mainly radical, spatulate, entire, 

 or with few sharp teeth, inucronate, thiunisli, glaV)rous or nearly so (1 to 3 inches long) : 

 flowering stems puljescent and above glandular, bearing solitary or 3 to 5 middle-sized heads : 

 involucre somewhat canipanulate, 4 or 5 lines high, merely puberulent-glandular, hardly at 

 all viscid , the bracts linear-lanceolate with attenuate and squarrose-spreading green tips : 

 rays less than 30, barely half-inch long, white: akenes narrow, puliescent. — Bot. King 

 Exp. 141, t. 16. — Utah, in the Wahsatch Mountains at 7,000 to 11,000 feet, Watson, Parry, 

 M. E. Jones. 



++ ++ Stems branching: leaves comparatively small: species neither alpine nor subalpine. 

 = Involucre of the small and scattered or somewhat racemosely disposed heads not squarrose; the 

 green tips of the bracts more or less erect: slender and low species, a span to a foot or less high, 

 of tlie Rockj- Mountain and interior western region. 



A. campestris, Nutt. Pruinose-pnberulent and viscidulous, somewhat heavv-scented : 

 leaves linear (about an inch long, a line or two wide) or lower narrowly liugulate-spatulate 

 (radical "serrulate," Nuttall), mostly glabrate, some obscurely 3-nerved : involucre 3 or 4 

 lines high, hemispherical, of ratlier few-ranked and little unequal linear acute bracts, prui- 

 uose-glandular : rays 3 or 4 lines long, light violet or purple. — Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 

 vii. 293. — Low grounds and plains, interior of Washington Terr, and Idaho \o Montana 

 (first and sparingly coll. by Nuttall and SpakUnij, recently by Watson, Saksdorf, Foncood, 

 &c.), E. Oregon [Ciisick) to N. California {Grc-ne). 



Var. Bloomeri, More rigid (in drier more exposed situations) : stem and leaves hir- 

 sutulons : involucral bracts sometimes more unequal. — A. Bloomeri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 vi. 539, & Bot. Calif. 323. — High slopes, &c., W. Nevada, Bloomer, Lemmon, in specimens 

 of the latter, from Carson, passing into A. campestris. 



A. Fendleri, Gray. Eigid, a span to a foot high, sparsely hispidulous : the linear one- 

 nerved firm leaves hispid-ciliate, otherwise usually smooth and glabrous : involucre somewhat 

 canipanulate (3 lines high); outer bracts shorter, linear-oblong, obtuse, pruinose-glandnlar, 

 inner acute or apiculate : rays violet, 4 lines long. — PI. Feudl. 66. A. Nnttallii, var. Fendleri, 

 Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. vi. 97. — Plains and sand-hills, from W. Kansas to S. Colorado and 

 N. New Mexico ; first coU. by Fcndler. . — 



= = Involucre of the large heads very squarrose-foliaceoiis : leaves proportionallv very small, 

 rigid, recurved or reflexed. 



A. grandiflorus, L. About 2 feet high, with long and slender spreading rigid branches, 

 hispid with slinrt spreading liristles, not viscid : leaves oblong-linear or obscurely spatulate, 

 rough-liispiduhms ; cauline rarely 2 inches long ; of the branches half to less than (jnarter 

 inch long; uppermost pas.sing into bracts of the (half-inch high) many-ranked obscurely 

 granuloseviscid involucre ; the green tips oblong-linear or shorter, or the inner linear : rays 

 three-fourths inch long, deep violet, large and numerous, rather br(jad : akenes little com- 

 pressed, cane.scent, 7-10-costate. — Spec. ii. 877 (Martyn, Hist. PI. Rar. t. 191 ; Dill. Elth. 

 t. 36, fig. 41 ) ; Mill. Ic. t. 282 ; Bot. Reg. t. 273 ; Hoffm." Phyt. Blatt. 65, t. A, f. 1. A. asper- 

 rimiis, 5s"utt. Traus. Phil. Soc. vii. 293. — Dry and gravelly soil, Virginia to Georgia in the 

 middle country. 



= = ^ Involucre of middle-sized (a third to half inch) heads well imbricated; the unequal 

 br:icts with loose squarrose-spreading tips: leaves not rigid, spreading. 



A. NOVSB-Anglise, L Stem stout and strict, 2 to 8 feet high, very leafy to the top, 

 coarselv hirsute or hispid with many-jointed hairs, also with glandular pubescence: leaves 

 lanceolate or broadly linear, pubescent (2 to 5 inches long), entire, slightly if at all narrowed 

 below, half-clasping by a strongly auriculate-cordate base : heads crowded : rays 50 to 60 or 

 more, fully half-inch long, purple. — S])ec. ii. 875 (Hort. Cliff. 408; Herm. Par. Bot. t. 98) ; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 183 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 145. A. ample.ricaidis, Lam. Diet. i. 304, excl. syn. 

 Tourn. A. spnrius, Willd. iii. 2032, a low and branching form witii scattered . heads. A. 

 conc.innus, Colla, Hort. Rip. App. iii. t. 12, not Willd. — Low grounds, Camxda and Saskatch- 

 ewan to S. Carolina and Colorado. A peculiar and handsome species. 



Var. roseus, DC. Rays rose-colored. — (Bot. Reg. 1. c. fig. d.) A. roseus,\)c^i. C?it. 

 ed. 3, 401, not Stev. — With the ordinary form occasionally, permanent in cultivation. 



A. oblongifolius, Nl-tt. About 2 feet high : stem hir.sute-pubescent, very leafy, corvm- 

 bosely branched : leaves from narrowly oblong to broadly linear (larger cauline 2 inches 



