150 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
L. ; differs from A. erectus type in its divergent pedicels, produc- 
ing loose flattish or convex inflorescence with well-separated heads ; 
but their flattened rays remain still erect or suberect, although 
with abundant room for taking horizontal position. With the 
d gia 
. Y. Vic, Znwood, Se. 25,'97 ; Jerome Av., Oc. 2, 1900; Mosholu Av., 
Oc. 2, Ti Bryn Mawr Park, Se. 96, '97, 98, '99, 1900, 1903. 
7. Aster fimbriatus sp. nov. 
Small scattered woodland plants with long incurved-acuminate 
leaves, laterally-ciliate rounding bracts, large couchant teeth, 
broad-brace sinus, and a small loose inflorescence with some or 
many rays terminally fimbriate or even slit to the base (whence 
the ind 
G. 15, a plant from Bryn Mawr Park, vic. N. Y., Se.’97, in hb. Bu., with 
PINO leaf and bract; 4, face-view of an unusually fimbriate head ; as drawn 
in the field, fimbriae surviving collection but a few minutes. 
Stems slender, about 1 ft. high, in swamp muck or in damp 
shade; exceptional stems approach 2 ft.  Leaf-type rather long, 
ovate-incurved-attenuate. Teeth sharp, the larger strongly out- 
flung, often of couchant form. 
Veins very inconspicuous, subcircular in section. ripen 
long, loose, forming a small few-flowered open inflorescence, com- 
monly of 10-30 heads, flattish-convex, and almost ik 
bractlets. Disks turn deep vinous-pur 
Bracts thin-coriaceous, slender, ane with broad truncate- 
rounded apex, laterally ciliate, with large spatulate deep green 
tips, rather definite, on paler involucres becoming short-triangular 
or crescentic. Lowermost bracts triangular-acutish. Green tips 
obsolescent in the inner bracts. Most bracts have narrow scarious 
and incurved edges. 
Rays pure vine, oblong ; in many heads some or all of the 
rays are fimbriated at the tip, or even slit once or twice to the 
ase. 
In moist rich, shade, especially about standing water; or 
among tangles of plants along swamp borders, near Yonkers, N. 
Y., Sept., chiefly the 2d and 3d weeks. 
— Differs from A. divar. cymulosus in having usually longer, 
more incurved-acuminate leaves, sharper narrower outflung teeth, 
long loose pedicels, no dense-bunched inflorescence, darker green 
thinner leaves, and broad open very shallow sinus. 
