ASTER DIVARICATUS CURTIFOLIUS ise 
W. N. Y., Pt. Gratiot, Jul. 21,96, in bud, unusually large jos plants, with 
purple glaucous POM leaves large, 314 X 3 in.; Au. 21, '96, with rays broad 
8 or Io. 
Va., Potomac, at Spout Run, Oc. 2, '88, type in hb. Bu. ; among bushes near 
the river-bank ; also east of Holtzman’s Oc. 29, '88, leaves to 3 X 24 in., and oppo- 
site Analostan I., Oc. 15, '88, in thicket, 
Id. ASTER DIVARICATUS DELTOIDEUS Burgess 
Fragile dark green plants with subdeltoid leaves and sharp 
remote teeth. 
Fic. 8 (— PLATE 4, B) showing plant from gc "à Y., in hb. Bz. 
Aster divaricatus roban. Burgess in Br. & Br., Ill. : 354. 1595; as 
follows : 
“ Delicate, 1 14 ft. high or less ; lower leaves triangular-cordate 
with a broad sinus or subtruncate ; the apex incuitved-acuiainate: 
forward; heads nearly as in the preceding did [curti ifolius |. 
In moist shady places, N. E. to N. Y., Va. and 
Typical subdeltoid leaves 1 14 x 1 in. ; sinus ordi recurved ; 
veins delicate but conspicuous, in the longer leaves suggesting 
Cornus in curvature. 
Unlike acute-leaved plants of var. curtifolius in its leaves with 
deeper remoter teeth and incurved-acuminate apex 
An early-flowering variety of cool brooksides, and moist shade, 
becoming much larger and more profuse-flowering southward, 
often represented in herbaria. Probably occurs with typical A. 
divaricatus throughout its range ; its range in N. Y. State extend- 
ing from L. Erie and L. Champlain to Long Island ; specimens 
seen e Now Me, CL Ne YT D, Md, D Gu VÀ, 
Ky., Ten 
Forde a part of the A. corymbosus as known to Nees and was 
so cultivated early in Hort. Bonn, fide specimen in hb. Gray ex hd. 
Nees. 
Examples : 
Ms., M. V., W. Tisbury Troutpond, Se. 4, '97; Mark's Valley, Se. 6, '97; 
Tea ped Se. 6,97. 
N. Y. vic., Mosholu station, Se. 30, '96 (type, figured), Se. 21, '98, Bi. ; 
Yonkers, Deawoody culvert, Se. 13, '97, Se. 16, '98; Hillview, Oc. 19, '97 ; Park 
Hill, Se. 14,’96: Bryn Mawr, Se. 23, 99. 
Pa., Phoenixville, Bucks Co. Au. 26, '96, W E. F. 
C., Woodley Bridge, Se. 21, '88; Oc. 22, '88; Mt. Pleasant brook, 
k d 
Va., Potomac, thickets opposite Analostan I., Se. 27, ' 
o 7, fide specimen in hb. Gray pino to wies ioo by Nees 
as E urybia alec 
