278 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
portion very stout and generally hooked, more scattered than 
in the type (sometimes half an inch apart): branches of the 
inflorescence few-flowered and short, rarely more than two- 
thirds as long as the leaves. —Growing in lower ground and 
generally a coarser appearing plant than the type, but pass- 
ing into it.—In wet meadows and on shores with much the 
Same range as the species. 
Maine: St. Francis (M. L. Fernald); Mt. Desert Island 
(M. L. Fernald, E. L. Rand); Woodstock (Jj. C. Parlin); 
Eavsington (C. H. Knowlton); South Poland (Kate Fur- 
ish). 
Massachusetts: Ashland (Thos. Morong); Boylston Sta- 
tion, Boston (E. and C. E. Faxon); West Roxbury (C. E. 
Faxon); Jamaica Plain (E. Faxon). 
Aster puniceus x tardiflorus, var. lancifolius, n. hyb.—A 
rather stout plant 13 to 2" high, simple or sparingly branched 
above: the purple or purple-tinged stem hispid with coarse 
spreading white hairs: leaves thick and leathery in texture, 
coarsely serrate in the middle; root-leaves elongated-spatulate, 
glabrous; cauline oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 6” long, 3 to # 
wide, broadest above the middle; from the broadest portion 
tapering abruptly to an acuminate tip, and gradually to an 
auriculate base; above strongly scabrous, beneath glabrous oF 
sparingly scabrous, and somewhat hispid on the broad white 
midrib: inflorescences leafy or naked, simply, or two-five- 
flowered and corymbose, in the axils of the upper leaves, 
an inch or two high (barely half as long as the leaves): h 
4 to 6" high, an inch or so broad; bracts of the involucre nat 
rowly linear, three to four lines long, erect, loosely i 
cated, mostly in one series, but with a shorter secondary oute’ 
Series: rays pale violet.—Collected with A. tardifiorus, oe 
fancifolius in a meadow at Ashland, Mass., Oct. 24 a 
by the late Thomas Morong; in marshes along the cb 
ple tardifforus, var. lanctfolius, but the coarse serratio like 
the middle portion, and the cuneate lower portion 4% 
