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pale under surface and more blunt and oppressed serratures. 

 The flower-beads are generally less numerous and larger than in 

 tbe type. Professor Porter remarks tbat perbaps it is a good 

 species, and also tbat it is suggestive of a bybrid between Aster 

 Goi'difolius and A. Icevis. 



Aster vimineus Lam. 



Tbis species anfl A. diffusus are not easily separated in some 

 of tbeir forms. Near Wells, Hamilton county, an Aster is com- 

 mon wbicb bas tbe narrow leaves of A. mmineus, but tbe bairy 

 stem of A. diffusus. 



Aster Novi-Belgii L. 



A form was collected at Nortbville in wbicb tbe beads are 

 unusually small, being about tbree lines long. Tbey are about 

 tbe size of tbe beads of A. dumosus. 



At Lake Pleasant, a small form occurs in wbicb tbe stem is one 

 to two feet bigb, rarely branched and bearing from one to six 

 flowers of usual size. At Wells is a form like tbis in all respects 

 except tbat tbe stem and midvein of tbe leaves are bairy as in 

 A. puniceus, to wbicb, on tbis account tbe specimens bave been 

 referred, although the leaves are much more narrow than in 

 ordinary forms of A. puniceus. It may be a question whether 

 these should be considered as a narrow-leaved, few-flowered 

 form of A. puniceus, or a' hairy-stemmed, few-flowered form of 

 A. Novi-Belgii. Both forms are apparently due to poor soil. 



A form was collected ne.ar Wells, having tbe long linear 

 leaves of variety elodes. They are four to four and a half 

 inches long and not more than tbree lines wide. 



Erigeron strigosus Muhl, var. discoideus Robbins. 



Koadsides and pastures. Alcove. C. L. Shear. Menands and 

 Grafton. June and July. 



Tbis variety appears, at first sight, as if its rays had been 

 closely eaten by insects. 



Lactuca leucophsea Gr. var. integrifolia Gr. 

 Along the railroad near Carrolton. September. Probably 

 introduced from tbe west. 



