ASTER DIVARICATUS 103 
strong-ciliate bracts, and long thin smoothish ovate-lanceolate 
coarse-serrate leaves, chiefly slender-petioled, about one third of 
them cordated. 
Name, L., appropriate to the widely AT branching and pedicels ; and 
especially to sie squarrose spreading upper axiles, two or three of which — make 
nc 
IG. 3 (= PLATE 1), from a N. Y. plant in hb, Bu., with 4 bracts, of m. outer 
and three inner types, the 2d representing the normal truncate form, and the 3d the 
chanfer- or bevel-tipped type. 
ster divaricatus L. Sp. pl. 873. 1753; sa Pris ag from Gronovius 
and Plukenet, which are of We “ei (Michaux) Gre 
ot ital is Lam. Dict. 1: 305. s which, pra i Jussieu, is 4. 
acil. Michaux (so Gray, S. Fl. 19 on 
t A. divaricatus Poiret, Enc. méth. Suppl. 1: 498, n. 82. 1810 which is Doel- 
Sina infirm 
Not PR ce S. Veg. 3: 529. 1826, which Nees deemed to be 
his oe amygdalt 
Not 4. divaricatus T. & G., Fl. N. Am. 2: 163. 1841 (the Zrifolium divari- 
catum of Nuttall), which is 4. exilis ix 
Not 4. divaricatus Raf. ex DC. Prodr. 5: 241. 1836, which is 4. divergens 
Aiton, 
Not A. divaricatus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 318. 1891 = Aflopappus divaricatus A. 
Gray. 
But = Fut macrophylla divaricata DC., Prodr. 5: 265. 
and = A. divaricatus L., Bot. Club Check List, N. Am., 323. 1894. 
and = A. divaricatus L., Br. & Br. I. Fl. 3: 357. 1898 and vc following. 
E = A. cordifolius Michaux, Fl. 2: 114. 1803 in part fide her 
A. corymbosus Dryander in Aiton, H. Kew, 3: 207. 1789; s ed by Will- 
dente Nees (1818), Poiret, Sprengel; and in America by Bigelow (1814), Pursh, 
Torrey and Gray, and American authors generally till 1894. Not 4. corymbosus 
ms Meth. Suppl. 250. 1802, which is 7zz/a germanica 
rybia icc poya: Dict. des sci. nat. 37: 487. 1825 ; followed by 
832 
Ham: Sm Ast 143. 1832; uh Bot. Reg. 24, 532. 1832; Hooker, Fl. Bor. 
Am., 1840; Darlington, eee ON so, 1837. 
2k Aa corymbosa DC., Prodr. 265. 3 
Plants low, assurgent, dun and acutely flexuous, brittle, 
4 to 24 ft. high, g glabrate at maturity, nearly smooth to the touch, 
ae cespitose. Rootstocks slender, the small delicate radical 
leaves rather seldom produced, coarsely serrate, 1 in. long or less, 
oval-acute. Stem terete, usually green, occasionally purplish- 
tinged or brownish, soon glabrous. Leaves thin, smoothish, in- 
curved-acuminate, ovate-lanceolate, full green, fading yellowish, 
4 x 2 in. or less, regularly diminished upwards. Lower caulines 
with a broad deep sinus, so continuing for about 4 of the stem, 
passing into rounded leaf bases and finally into a few sessile ones. 
Petioles slender, or sometimes a few upper ones broad-winged, of 
