118 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; DIVARICATI 
1* OBLONG-OVATE form; thinnish firm oblong-ovate leaves, 
finally oblong-lanceolate, nearly uniform in size and shape to the 
small bunchy inflorescence. Leaves 5 x 2% in.; or 3 x I in. 
on smaller plants; not deeply toothed, not much acuminate ; all 
nearly sessile by short broad wings at the rounded base; or only 
the upper ones so, and the others with increasingly long slender 
petioles, or sometimes with a narrow strap-wing 2in.long. Heads 
well-pedicelled. Sinus well-developed, or at least vestigial at the 
base of the stem. — Scattered plants, in woods. 
T. Y. vic. * Ve pu i Hleights,’97; Yonkers, n. w. corner of Palmer Av. 
Rocks, Se. *- tbe . Z., Grant City flatwo xr. E C X7, 06, 
W. , Laona, springy bank, Au. 22, '96 
P" aA pe form. Narrow-leaved slender subpinnate 
plants with slit-toothed attenuate conduplicate axiles. Slender 
plants, about 2 ft. high. Leaves peculiar, all small and nearly 
alike, 2 x 34 in., oblong-acuminate with brace-base and short- 
slender petiole; a few above lose the cordation, having an abruptly 
rounded base, with short broad wing.  Axiles similar, numerous, 
linear, acuminate, 2 x 4 in., or finally shorter, not quite sessile, 
remarkable for their continuous conduplicate tendency, clasping 
and concealing the peduncle. Margins persistently and finely slit- 
toothed, or in some very lowest leaves more irregularly serrulate. 
Inflorescence somewhat pinnate, with prolonged axis from which 
the long lower branches rise into a broad convex cyme.  Bracts 
narrow, with little color, polymorphous, the apex truncate, 
ee bild acute, or tapering. 
.» Gayhead at Blackwater Knob, Se. 6, '98, among huckleberry bushes 
in pure Sach over cla ay 
1° RussET-TUFT form. <A short-leaved much-branched form, 
dull-green turning russet, forming masses in thin woods on gneissic 
rocks, with brown or pale stems, long flagellate and leafy ascend- 
ing branches, short ovate leaves, and widely divaricate small dull 
heads. 
Stem 2 or 2% ft. high, pale or brownish, ascending, seldom 
strictly erect. Branches irregularly flexuous- -ascending, sometimes 
as many as 20 and bearing in all as many as 150 heads ; often half 
a dozen branches are 6 to 10 in. long — before their own branch- 
lets begin. Sometimes qao heads have been found on a single 
piant. 
Leaves not large nor ionic ovate, E E, but little 
incurved, the lower 6 or so with slender petioles and moderate 
cordate base with prominent sinus. Middle and upper caulines 
ovate without sinus, their petioles short and broadly winged. 
Axiles similar to the last, even in size ; but sessile, 3 x 1% in. 
or less. 
