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soil under trees. Leaves pale green, often approximate, very thin. 
Very little hair. Disks pale yellow turning brown. Rays about 6. 
Y 
N. Y., Chautaugua Co., Pawpaw grove in Sheridan, Au. 15, ' 96, '97, 98, 
etc., type locality, with hundreds of gregarious plants 6-9 in. high, each with 3 or 
little long-pedicelled heads or sometimes a close cluster, and 3 or 4 long-petioled large 
eaves 4 X 214 in. or less. Not seedlings, but closely cespitose on account of the 
shortness of the rootstocks, which rise into the erect plant after a growth of 4 or 5 
nodes in little over an inch. 
W. » Hanover, Rosebrook woods, Au. 1900; Dunkirk, Pt. Gratiot, 
Au. II - Z1. OF 
Ny YS y Co., Niskayuna woods, Se. 11, '89; a Mt. 
near Hunter, ray 9,'99. thaca, '84, Coville, no. 296231 in U. S. ? Ib. 
. vic., Van Cortlandt Pk., Se. 1903. 
N. i Palisades, Undercliff, Oc. 5, '99, 1900. 
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15 BEECH-TWIG form. Small plants with stiff zigzag brown stems 
(about 1 ft.), and firm broadly ovate leaves, with winged petioles 
above, the lower leaves with deepsinus. Teeth shallow, remote, 
directed forward. Heads small, obconic, in a few small axillary 
and terminal clusters. Hair nearly absent. Bracts few, nearly 
uniform, pale, thick, the lower acute. Bracteals of the discule type, 
A e., , reduced to little flat or crisped circular disc-like bractlets, about 
brown, their veins darker, general effect much like a beech-twig ; 
to which effect the shape and uniformity of leaf, denticulate form 
of teeth, and an occasionally conduplicate leaf, all contribute ; as 
well as the narrow straightish veins, prominent on the upper side, 
and not so strongly curved as in most congeners. A sport? or 
a depauperate and temporary condition ? 
D. C., Rock Cr., deep woods above Blagden's Mill, Oc. 12, '88. 
1" PnuwE-sTEM form. Small wandlike scattered or clustered 
[lants of middle September, with small domed long- pedicelled 
inflorescence, taper-lanceolate high-petioled leaves, and swaying 
flexuous prune-colored stem. Leaves very pale beneath, the 
upper distant, narrow, long- tapering, obtusely serrulate. Inflores- 
cence small, rather close, with convex top and small heads. 
Bracts obtuse, the inner narrow and often purple-edged, the back 
igi sand puberulent ; the tip indefinite, pale, slightly developed 
or often n 
Differs from typical A. divaricatus in its prune stem, its wand 
effect, its small close inflorescence, its tendency to long pedicels, its 
less suddenly acuminate leaves, its smaller and closer teeth. 
Differs from A. divaricatus cymulosus especially in its long ped- 
icels and its longer narrower more taper leaves. Resembles the 
last, to which it is intermediate, in its small and somewhat close 
ure. inflorescence. 
