784 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Central prairies. Dry fields. Montgomery County. Dallas County, 

 Marion Junction, open prairies. Flowers white; October. Not frequent. 

 Type locality : " Native of North America." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb Mohr. 



Aster dumosus L. Sp. PI. 2 : 873. 1753. BUSHY ASTER. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 347. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 260. Chap. Fl. 203. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 

 185. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 196. 



Allegheniau to Louisianian area. Southern Ontario; New England to Michigan; 

 Ohio Valley to Missouri, south to the Gulf, and from Florida to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Shaded grassy banks, damp or dry 

 sandy soil. Cullman and Mobile counties. Rays pale violet, almost white; Octo- 

 ber. Common; abundant on the grassy banks along pine-barren streams. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aster dumosus coridifolius (Michx. ) Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 128. 1841. 



MANY-LEAVED BUSHY ASTER. 

 Aster coridifolius Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 112. 1803. 

 A.foliolosus Ell. Sk. 2 : 345. 1821-24. Not Ait. 

 Ell. Sk. I.e. Chap. Fl. 203. Gray, Syn. Fl.N. A. 1, pt.2: 186. 

 Louisianian area. South Carolina and Florida to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Low damp exposed places, bor- 

 ders of ditches, swamps in low pine barrens. Montgomery, Dallas, Baldwin, and 

 Mobile counties. Flower rays white; October, November. Abundant in the prai- 

 ries and damp fiat pine barrens near the coast. Passes gradually into the following. 



Type locality : " Hab. in aridis sylvarum Carolinae inferioris." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aster dumosus subulaefolius Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 128. 1841. 



SMALL-LEAF BUSHY ASTER. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 196. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina; Florida to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Low open pine barrens. Kays 

 white; October. Frequent. 



Type locality: "Texas, Drummond! Western Louisiana, Dr. Leavenworth ! " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aster vimiiieus foliolosus (Ait.) Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 186. 



MANY-LEAVED WILLOW ASTER. 



Aster foliolosus Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 202. 1789. 



A . ten uifolius Ell. Sk. 2 : 347. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 261. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 186. 



Alleghenian to Carolinian area. Ontario, New England, west to Minnesota, Mis- 

 souri, and Arkansas, south to Florida and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp open woods. Cullman County. Lee County, 

 Auburn (F.S.Earle). September. 

 Type locality: "Native of North America." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aster lateriflorus (L. ) Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 9 : 10. 1889. 



DIFFUSE ASTER. 



Solidago lateriflora L. Sp. PI. 2 : 879. 1753. 



Aster diffiixus Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 205. 1789. 



Aster miser Nutt. Gen. 2 : 158. 1818. 



Gray, Man. ed 6, 261. Chap. Fl. 203; ed. 3, 222. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 186. 

 Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 196. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia, Ontario; throughout the Eastern 

 United States, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County. Talladega 

 County, Alpine Mountains. Lee County, Auburn, 860 feet. Not observed in the low 

 country. Not frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America septentrionali. Kalm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aster lateriflorus glomerellus (Torr. & Gray) Burgess in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3 : 380. 



1898. 



Aster miser var. qlomerelhis Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 130. 1841. 

 Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York, Virginia. 



