46 Report of the State Botanist. 



indicate their character thus : Aster Herveyi Gr. var. intermedia 

 Pk. Branchlets and peduncles glandular-hairy ; heads large ; 

 rays violet ; involucral scales glandular, erect, all or all except 

 the Ioniser and more pointed inner ones, green or with green 

 tips ; pappus white or whitish ; leaves rather thick and rough, 

 ovate or lanceolate, the lower on naked petioles and more or less 

 cordate, the upper sessile, the radical leaves large, broadly ovate- 

 cordate, rough, on long naked petioles. 



Apparently intermediate l)etween typical A. Herveyi and 

 A. macrophyllus. With this it has probably been confused, but 

 from it it may be separated b}' the larger heads, color of the 

 rays and pappus and glandular peduncles. 



Aster corymbosus Alt. 

 A pale, violet-rayed form with white pappus was obtained at 

 Shokan. In general appearance it is quite like ordinary forms, 

 but the color of the rays and of the pappus indicates a slight 

 variation toward A. Herveyi. 



Aster cordifolius L. var, laevigatas Porter. 



This variety, well-marked and easily recognized, though not 



indicated in the Manual, extends northward to Shokan, in the 



Catskill mountains. 



Aster laevis L. 



West Albany. Septemljer. A form having rays nearly white. 

 This is apparently the same or nearly the same as the white-rayed 

 form found at Fort Edward l^y Dr. Vanden'burg and mentioned 

 in the Flora of Xorth America. The color of the rays becomes 

 a little more bluish-tinted in drying. 



Aster diffusus Ait. var. variifolius n. oar. 



Heads scattered, mostl}' on bracted peduncles one-half to one 

 inch long; branches horizontally spreading or slightly ascending; 

 leaves sharply serrate with prominent teeth, varying from very 

 long and narrowly lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, the 

 broadest ones abruptly narrowed towards the base as if into a 

 widely margined petiole. 



Sandlake and Catskill mountains. September. 



In the Manual this species is described as having the leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the lower somewhat serrate in 



