134 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; DIVARICATI 
Ie. ASTER DIVARICATUS FONTINALIS Burgess 
Solitary plants of moist places with large thin tissuey radicals, 
sharp teeth, and narrow smoothish bracts. 
Name, L., from its frequent occurrence in springy places. 
Fic. 9, plant from Rock Cr., D. C., Oc. 5, '87, in hb. Bw. ; 6, its character- 
istic radical. 
A. divaricatus fontinalis Burgess in Br. & Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 357. 1898, as fol- 
lows: 
“Plants solitary ; basal leaves often numerous, tufted, thin, 
smoothish, sharply serrate or dentate, 6 x 4% in., or smaller, 
broadly oval, acute, the base subcordate or rounded : inflorescence 
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usually ample, the long virgate branches with numerous small 
oval-oblong leaves; involucre turbinate; its bracts with definite 
green tips. In springy places, and grassy ditches in open sunny 
situations, N. E. and N. Y. to Va." 
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