96 SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS 
** Radical leaves ovate-cordate, smaller, thin but firm, dark-green 
52. A. SYLVICOLA : leaves small, cordate with square sinus, acute, very dark, firmer 
m villous beneath; stem slender; rays about Io, short; bracts 
E. 
shallow-c 
53. A. AMBIGUUS : /eaves small, EENS with broad and rather shallow sinus, 
light-green, p or nearly so; bracts shallow-chanfer or acutish; lateral 
54. A. SUBCYMOSUS : fw broader in the middle, very firm and thin and smooth, with 
harp curvescent or aquiline teeth, cordate-ovate, suddenly slender-acuminate ; 
h 
heads $; in. high. 
MACROPHYLLI 
Violet present in the rays. Glandular hair present.  Involucre larger and 
icker, $ t ; rays usually about 13, tridentate at apex; plants 
larger than in the preceding (excepting some Curvescentes) in rootstock, stem 
a eaf; colonies of radicals extensive; tex often very thic ry rough 
or very rigi renate teeth often pes ; bract ts less ciliate ; tomentum 
centes, often entirely replaced u Sedis stubs; disks soon edid -red or 
roon; inflorescence tending more often to trifurcate than to subpinnate 
pedicels. 
Division A. LAVENDER MACROPHYLLI. Lilac rays slowly turning lav- 
ender, peer becoming pale, dull and whitish; at length brown. ( Divi- 
rule develops more strictly violet heads, changing to purer 
Division A; though occasionally, plants of Division A will produce an- 
equally deep-violet head.) Radicals heavier and shorter- aa than in 
ften less numerous, chiefly 3, but usually forming larger 
SuBDIVISION A. LEAVES thick, heavy, not firm in life, but Mrs “Teeth 
road, crenate-serrate ; em ular hair chiefly confined to pedicels and 
bracts and upper part of s 
* Plants stout, rather tall, "am 3 ft., with sprangle-top inflorescence ; 
bra ais ee rphous. 
55. A. MACROPHYLLUS: leaves cordately clin -ovate, acute, harsh but only sparingly 
hairy ; sinus broad, deep, nis cas unequally overlapping ; upper leaves broadly 
oblong-acuminate, taper-based or winged; bracts thick, the lower triangular- 
acute, others oblong, obtuse; green tips conspicuous, Stem rough-hairy in most 
ical forms. 
5510. Glabrate form: leaves more serrulate, rough ; stem glabra 
55". Xid-finish form: leaves smoother, thinner , firmer ; ane when dry. 
5512, Hetchel form: leaves very rough and irregular. 
5513. Triangle-hetchel form : leaves sr deii inm apt to show 5-forked pedicels 
and violet rays. 
5514. Tall-to form: lateral branches later and shorter; apt to be 5-forked, but lilac. 
5515. Aculeated form: radicals blackish-green, triangular-cordate, aculeate-serrate. 
5516, Bunch-tof form: glabrate; heads small, dense, livid. 
55V. Downy form: downy, serrulate, flat-topped, itle leased, 
$518, Dextscilite form: dark-green, subrepand, with pale vein 
$519. Round-bract form: serrate ; heads dense, Meinen 
55b. A. MACR. APRICENSIS : /eaves oval-acute, with strap-wings, very flabby, few with 
