BRITTON: STUDIES OF WeEsT INDIAN PLANTS 15 
6 mm. wide or less, narrowed into slender, ciliate, partly clasping 
fetiek 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, 1911 (Britton, Britton & Cowell 
9751). Erroneously recorded by Grisebach as Aster carneus Nees. 
6. ASTER DuMosuS L. Sp. Pl. 873. 1753 
Pinelands, high mountains of Santo Domingo; eastern United 
States. 
7. ASTER BRACE! 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. 
9g. 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: I9. 
19OI 
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. 
