1896. ] Aster tardiflorus and its Forms. 277 
often gradually contracted to a winged petiole; leaves above 
glabrous or somewhat scabrous, beneath from glabrous to vil- 
lous-pubescent, especially on the midrib; margin nearly or 
quite entire toward the apex and the base, but in the middle 
portion bearing regular coarse and sharp serrations, or rarely 
without serrations, particularly on the upper leaves: heads 
three to five lines high: bracts of the involucre sub-equal or 
indefinitely two-or three- seriate, linear to linear-subulate, 
atute or short acuminate, mostly ciliate, green toward the tip 
and down the midrib; the outer sometimes entirely foliaceous: 
fays pale violet, flesh colored, or almost white.—Spec. 2: 
1231, [Ed. 2], not of Willd. Spec. 3: 2049. A. patulus Lam. 
Dict. 1: 308. A. Tradescanti Hoftm. Phyt. Blatt. 86, /. D. 
Ag. 2, not of L. Spec. 2: 876. A. pallens Willd. Enum. 
Suppl. 58. 4, praecox Willd. 1. c. A. abbreviatus Nees, Syn. 
Be. 6. 4. Cornutt Wendl. ex Nees, Gen. et Sp. Ast. 58. 
A. acuminatus Nees, |. c. 60. 4. vimineus Nees, |. c. 68 in 
part.—In low woods, generally along streams, New Bruns- 
a sh New England, flowering from late August through 
ober, 
Specimens have been examined from the following stations: 
ew Brunswick: Keswick (John Brittain); Campbellton 
(R. Chalmers). 
Maine: St. John River (Kate Furbish); Dover (M. L. Fer- 
tald); Mt. Desert Island (E. L. Rand, E. Faxon); Farming- 
fon (C,H. Knowlton); Woodstock (J. C. Parlin). 
znew Hampshire: Shelburne (E. Faxon); Bethlehem (E. 
“on, G. G. Kennedy). Lisbon (E. Faxon); Franconia (E. 
ad C. E. Faxon, G. G. Kennedy). ; 
: ermont: Smugglers Notch, very small plants with from 
- to three heads (C. E. Faxon); Sutton, near Willoughby 
" (E. Faxon); Newfane (A. J. Grout) 
Bede, wcnusetts: Blue Hills, Quincy (G. 
ord (A.W. H 
+ e “ 
ag omnetticut: Bolton (C. Wright), a somewhat doubtful 
G. Kennedy); New 
4ves glabrous or sparingly ciliate on t 
gly ciliate : 
ve “lanceolate, 3 to 5 in length, 6 to 10 times as ea ae 
low to tapering above to an entire long-acumitaty = eee 
°4 slightly amplexicaul base; the teeth in the m 
