388 SMALL: PLANT NOVELTIES FROM FLORIDA 
violet, 7-8 mm. long; pappus tawny; achenes silky-villous.— 
Dry woods, middle Florida. 
Continued exploration in Florida has brought to our attention 
asters additional to those described about a decade or more ago.* 
Aster plumcsus is related to Aster concolor and it was formerly 
confused with that well-known species. It differs from Aster 
concolor in its more branching habit, and in the copiously loosely 
pubescent branches of the inflorescence. The involucre, how- 
ever, is the more ready means of separation. This is larger than 
in A. concclor and has longer bracts with long, loosely spreading 
or recurved tips which are green, but the green tips are hidden 
in the dense white pubescence. 
The type specimens were collected in dry sandy soil, As- 
palaga, Florida, October, 1897, distributed as a duplicate from 
the Chapman Herbarium, by the Biltmore Herbarium, as Aster 
concolor L. 
/ Aster simulatus Small, sp. nov. Stem 2-15 dm. tall, wand- 
like or with few virgate branches, pale-pubescent, the branches, 
especially near the tips, villous-silky ; leaf-blades linear-elliptic to 
’ lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-2.5 mm. long or somewhat scale- 
like and smaller above, Lae or less silky, acute, entire, sessile; 
heads in virgate racemes or panicles, showy; involucre turbinate- 
campanulate; bracts ered linear to linear-lanceolate, imbri- 
cated in several series, the outer with deltoid green tips, the inner 
aa mm. long, with lanceolate green acute tip, all appressed; 
piously pubescent with ate capt ;ray-flowers 10-13; 
Heutes violet, 6-7 mm. long; pappus whitish; achene copiously 
silky. —Pinelands, Everglade Kove. Florida. 
Aster simulatus is related to A. concolor. It differs from that 
species in the smaller more scale-like leaf-blades, and the more 
copiously long-pubescent bracts of the involucre. 
he type specimens were collected in the pinelands near the 
homestead trail, about the Silver Palm Schoolhouse, Dade 
County, Florida, by the writer and George K. Small, November 
26, 1913. Other specimens by number collected during the 
writer’s exploration of the Everglade Keys are 1076, 2244, 
2740, 2741. 
‘DENTOCERAS Small, gen. nov. Shrub, with depressed 
branches, but perhaps short- lived. Leaves alterna te, numerous, 
jointed at the top of the ocreae. Flowers in small terminal 
* Small, Flora of the Southeastern United States; Flora of Miami. 
