Aster. | COMPOSITAE. 195 
1. L. Mauiensis, Mann, Enum. no. 195. — A perennial herb with a 
thick creeping rhizome. Leaves radical or crowded on a short som 
coriaceous, sessile, meats e, 2‘  1/;—1'/2‘, shortly acuminate, coarsely 
dentate or serrate toward the apex, triplinerved, sparsely covered sis 
resinous glands pean ene a short evanescent pubescence, pale underneath. 
scape 4—12', anne rave with 3—9 leaflets. Head large globose, 
4—9"". ol. bracts i rows, linear-oblong, acute, membranous, pube- 
scent, equalling ne ae ace florets ligulate, entire, pointed, in 3—4 series, 
little longer than the yellow disk, pale red. Achenes glandular near the 
apex, hispid. 
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Maui! on the top of Eeka, in marshy ground. 
‘ 6. ASTER, L. 
Invol. bracts imbricate in several rows, of uneven length. Ray-florets 
generally in one row, radiating with expanded ligules. Hairs of pappus 
always in a single row. Otherwise as in Hrigeron. 
1. A. divaricatus, Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. I, 163, var. Sand- 
Wicensis, Gray. — A much branching glabrous perennial, 2—3 ft. high. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, the lowest about 6‘ long, including the 
long margined petiole, 3—6“ broad above the middle, entire, thin, glabrous. 
Inflor. a large foliose corymboid panicle, the ultimate bracteiform leaflets 
subulate, the ultimate pedicels 4—5“ long. Heads turbinate, 3 abing 
diam. Inyol. bracts linear, quite acute, with scarious margins, 3“ high, 
loosely patent in 2—3 rows, the outer ones shorter. Ray- — 20 —28, 
in at least 2 rows, ities fertile, about 1/3 longer than the disk- -fl., the 
slender pale-purplish ligules expanded, entire and revolute. Disk-fl. ahond 
‘half. as many, partly sterile, the corollae tubular, 4-toothed, with slightly 
sh. 
ampliate limb, not projecting beyond the involucre, yellowi Pappus 
soft, longer than the pubescent achenes, which are little compressed, with 
& prominent nerve — Walp. Repert iL. 573. — Mann, Enum 
no. 196. — Tripolium divaricatum, Nuttall. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. VII, 296. — 
td subulatus, Less. in Linnaea, VI, 120 (non Michx.). — Tripol. subulatum, 
ees, var. DC. Prod. V, 254. — Erigeron multiflorus, Hook. & in 
wae Beech. p. 87. 
Oahu;Kauai; Molokai! Halawa; W. Maui! Wathee; near «taro» “patches an prgeses 
(not brackish) water. Not common; collected first by Chamisso. — The species t Si < f 
Gray (Mspt .) refers our plant, is found in many of the warmer portions = 
e American Continent, both and west. From the description it will be seen 1 
its position is a er ambiguous one between Aster and Erigeron, the imbrieate invo! 
the several- -fl we ia latter. 
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authors of the Geers Plantarum it is v on fruticosus, DC., from 
the island Juan Fernandez A 
