STATE GEOLOGIST. T3 



A. puniceus, L. Aster. 



Common througliout the state, excepting northwestward; extending to Fergus Falls, 

 Leonard, and into Dakota, Oray's Synoptical Flora ; but not observed in the Red river 

 valley, Upham. 



A. puniceus, L., var. lucidulus. Gray. (var. vimineus, Torr. & Gray.) 

 Aster. 

 Frequent in the south half of the state. 



A. prenanlhoides, Muhl. Aster. 



Lapham. Common in the vicinity of Hesper, Iowa, adjoining Houston and Fill- 

 more counties, Mrs. Carter. Southeast. 



A. oblongifolius, Nutt. Aster. 



Douglas county, Mrs. Terry ; Fort Snelling, Roberts ; Minneopa falls, Blue Earth 

 county, Upham ; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. South. 



[A. amethystinus, Nutt., occurs in Iowa, and probably also in Minnesota, Arthur.] 



A. Novse-Anglioe, L. New England Aster. 



Minneapolis, Tivining, Roberts ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning ; common at Hesper, 

 Iowa, Mrs. Carter ; Blue Earth county, Gedge; Kock county, Leiberg. [Upper Missouri 

 river, Oeyer, and Saskatchewan, Ch-ay's Synoptical Flora 0/ N. A.l South and west. 



A. luodestus, Lindl.* Aster. 



Moist woods, Oregon to British Columbia on the Pacific, and east to Saskatchewan 



and Pembina (Macoun), Gray's Synoptical Flora of ^'. A. Northwest. 



[A. GRAMiNiFOLius, Pursh., is Erioeron hyssopifolius, Michx., in Gray's Syn- 

 optical Flora of N. A., and will be found accordingly under that genus.] 



[A. acuminatus, Mlchx., should be looked for in northern Minnesota.] 



A. ptarniicoides, Torr. and Gray. Aster. 



Abundant, or common, throughout the state. [The var. lutescens. Gray, with "rays 

 pale yellow, small," which occurs in Manitoba and northern Illinois {Gray's Synoptical 

 Flora of N. A.), will probably be found also in Minnesota.] 



A. ang'ustus, Torr. and Gray. Aster. 



Lapham . Clay county, in the Red river valley, Gedge, determined by Watson . 

 Northwest. 



A. liiiariifolius, L. (Diplopappus linariifolius, Hook.) Double-bristled 

 Aster. 

 Lapham. Rare. East. 



A. unibellatu.s, Mill. (Diplopappus umbellatus, Torr. & Gray.) Double- 

 bristled Aster. 

 Throughout the state : abundant northward, common or frequent southward. 



A. umbellatus, Mill., var. pubens, Gray. Double-bristled Aster. 



Lower face of the oblong-lanceolate leaves tomentulose-pubescent, also usually 

 the flowering branchlets.— Saskatchewan to upper Michigan. Gray's Synoptical Flora 

 of N.A. 



*ASTEK MODESTPS, Lindl. Merely pubescent or glabrate : stem more slender 

 than in the two preceding species, 2 feet high : leaves thinnish, lanceolate or broader 

 (2 to 4 inches long), sparingly and acutely serrate or denticulate, very acute, mostly nar- 

 rowed to a sessile or partly clasping but not auriculate base; heads fewer and smaller 

 than in the preceding, hemispherical, numerous and usually thyrsoidly or cymosely 

 congested at the summit of the simple very leafy stem : bracts cf the involucre less 

 numerous, loose, and more or less herbaceous (or somewhat colored) almost from the 

 base, linear-attenuate, all equalling the disk : rays numerous and narrow, pale blue : 

 style-appendages lanceolate : akenes hirsute. Gray's Synoptical Flora of N. A. 



