132 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; DIVARICATI 
Pa., Phoenixville, '96, W. K. Fisher; Susquehanna, '97, Jas. A. Graves. 
Md., Sugarloaf Mi., Se. 23,93. 
D. C4, Rock Cr., Se. 29, 190, Oc. 26 
Va., Potomac batik opposite Analostan " , original type locality, Oc. 20, '88; 
n of Biofirm s, Oc. 29, '88 ; above Chain Br., Oc. 9, ’88. Carlin Spr., Se. 18. 
793; Rhododendron Run, Se. 12, '86, Æ. W. Ee 
Va., Stony Man Mt, Se. 2, 1901, E. S. Srei in N. Y. Bot. Gar. hb. 
Hat, Pog 1856, ex A Nees, in hb. Gray. 
Hort. Berol., 1839, in hb. A. Gray. 
NY. (eit Albany xong Se. "99, C. H. Peck m hb. N. Y. St. 
Ic. ASTER DIVARICATUS CURTIFOLIUS Burgess 
Roundish-leaved blunt-dentate plants with strong erect red 
stems and larger heads. 
Hie. 7 (= PLATE 3), 8 € e typical, though less robust and erect and 
hardly as py leaved 
divaricatus curtifolius psum in Br. & Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 357. 1898, as 
follows : 
“Stem erect, reddish, smooth, sometimes glaucous ; leaves 
small, dull green, firm, ovate and orbicular to reniform, the sinus 
broad, rounded, the apex obtuse or apiculate ; inflorescence loose, 
flattish ; disks turning purple ; rays about 5 lines long ; green tips 
of the involucral bracts conspicuous. In moist woods, N. Y. 
to Va." 
Leaves smoothish or but slightly roughish, very pale beneath, 
blunt-dentate, the small apex often early withering or altogether 
obsolete (whence the name, L. curtus, cut oft), often 1 14 x 1 in., 
their petioles short and slender. Axiles ovate, tapering to a nar- 
row sessile base. Rameals oblong-acute from a broad sessile base. 
Ramulars apt to be very greatly reduced, suborbicular, often only 
4, in. across, close beneath the flower heads. Heads large, 
loosely borne; disks bright yellow, turning reddish purple ; bracts 
very obtuse or truncate; receptacle finely fimbrillate ; achenes 
smooth, faintly striate. 
For differences from other short-leaved allies of A. divaricatus 
L., see A. circularis, A. rupicola, A. argillarius ; also the Obolarian 
form of A. divaricatus, p. 11 
pment. Young plants seen May 13 (99), had all leaves 
still subsucculent and one little reniform primordial remaining. 
Erden ; 
N, Y. vic., Hudson R., foot t 165th St., Se. 30, '98 ; foot of 17oth St, 
Oc. 6,798; below In pta Oc. 16,'98, Bi., Yonkers, Bryn Mawr woods, Se. 4, '98, 
Bi., Park Hill, Oc. 10 
N. p.244 fundis e Undercliff, Se. 29, °97; one with 5 radicals, nearly 
qun) ues 2 cm. long ; and 3 secondary leaves, oval-acute, with narrow sinus, 
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