PLATE 1. 



Aster Menziesii Lindl. 



1 and 2. Flowering stems, showing the rigid leaves with broad sessile 

 base and the arrangement of the heads. 



3. Leaf -surface, showing the character of the pubescence. 



4. An outer bract of the involucre. 



5. An inner bract of the involucre. 



6. A ray-flower. 



7. The style-branches of a ray-flower. 



8. A disk-flower. 



9. The style-branches of a disk-flower. 



10. Three stamens from a disk-flower. 



11. A single pappus-bristle from a disk-flower. 



All the figures were drawn from the type specimen at Kew by Miss M. 

 Smith under the direction of W. L. Jepson. 



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