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e, alteration due to fungal attack ; or, 
J, alteration due to some other unobserved local condition 
affecting the individual but not its neighbors. Such sports are the 
rare cases with one or more leaves bilobed ; or opposite ; or three 
at a node, e 
eit sports are not however the subject of the following 
enumeration of forms, which consist instead of numerous examples. 
pr dyoga STATES, developed in rich or loosened soil ; 
arked by characters as follows 
u Large ia even to 6 x 3% in. SEE, 
T Floriferous branches. 
1? Great branches, long or straggling. 
* Great heads and narrow rays. 
? Great heads and broad rays (growing among plants with 
ie tbe heads). 
* Leafy inflorescence; otherwise normal; occasional ex- 
amples 
1" Broad-wing petioles ; the upper, or even all of them ; the 
wing irregular and asymmetrical, or sometimes undulatiform ; 
Jr dice where. 
: Mass. (Middlesex Fells, Au.,'98; Tashmoo Spr., Au. 11,790); 
N Y. vie, ge i W. N. 3 95, etei DG. (Oc. 24, gi). 
***** DIMINISHED STATES due to exposure 
1? Ska-swEPT state, exposed on dry hills to sun and swept by 
the sea-wind. 
M. V., Harlock’s pond "uis rising but one inch from the grcund, with 
about 6 short Mene leaves 1 X 24 and with about 4 heads nearly normal, but su 
sessile and with narrower ick Sidi hairs broader than in the type. Au. IO, '92. 
1? SuNBURNT state; erect plants, roughened and thickened, 
with longer leaves and bracteals, and increased puberulence. 
Roadsides, etc., common with the type. 
* * * * * * DIMINISHED STATES, IMPOVERISHED, and due 
apparently to poor soil or imperfect nutrition 
1” Little-leaf state, occasional; whole succession of leaves 
nearly alike, sometimes reduced to 2 x I in., but otherwise typical ; 
foliage unlike A. argillarius, in which the little leaves are gener- 
ally still smaller, are unes than in the type and are differently 
toothed, oss mple 
N. Y. vic., S. Z., New Dorp, Britton in hb. Colu. 
D. C, A Fade Branch road, Oc. 13, '89, Bu. 
1" Little-head state, otherwise typical, but with small inflor- 
