ASTER DIVARICATUS 117 
1” Etiolated state; with pallid leaves and disks, long weak 
assurgent or decumbent protracted stems and capillary pedicels ; 
plants under wooden steps, etc., seeking li 
1? Subscandent state; tall, narrow but not virgate; leaves 
thin, smooth, apple-green, of normal form or some lanceolate. 
N. Y. vic., Z»zvood, Se. 24, '96, etc. ; numerous plants growing out of cracks 
in perpendicular faced gneiss and growing straight up along the rock wall, with remote 
inflorescences along the stem from the middle and lower axils; in sun 
1? Depressed state; prostrate, decumbent or geniculate, due 
to growth after trampling, in pastures ; and in clearings, after the 
work of axmen. 
W. N. Y., Fredonia, Au. '97 5; Silver Cr., Hanover Centre, etc. 
N. Y. vic., New Rochelle, etc. 
**** ***** UNExPLAINED FORMS of Aster divaricatus La of 
uncertain permanence, inexplicable by the preceding expla- 
nations, and evidently due in part at least to a tendency to 
vary independently of the immediate environment ; 
the plants not being individual sports but of 
numerous examples. To be classed as 
Leaf-variants, Stem-variants and 
Inflorescence-variants 
— Leaf-variants ; forms varying in many ways, but in which 
the variation in the leaves i is particularly conspicuous 
1* Arr-conRDaTE form ; leaves cordated to the small inflores- 
cence; otherwise norma 
N. Y. vic., Mile-Square road, spring, Oc. 26, '87. 
1? Non-corpaTe form; leafy and floriferous ; stem purple- 
black, 2 ft. high ; leaves somewhat ovate, acuminate, coarsely and 
remotely slit-toothed, and nearly as much so to the cuneately 
attenuate base ; bracts greener, mostly acutish, little ciliate ; heads 
larger, pressing into a large dense dome. 
. Y. vic., Gunther Park, on rock-pile by roadside, Midland Av. corner of 
Mile-Square road. 
19 OBLONG-LEAF form; slender long-leaved irregular plants, ea 
to produce a few flowers and leaves in the lower axils. ĻLeav 
oblong-acuminate, often 4 x 1% in., straight-serrate or ae 
serrulate, dark green, slender-petioled. Axiles 3 x 34 in. or less, 
lance-acuminate, tapering straight from near the short-winged or 
sessile base. Almost all bracts bevel-tipped. 
N.Y X. NIG, d opposite Sleepy Hollow cemetery, numerous and strag- 
gling among bushes, Se. 24, '98. 
