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or more rays will retain the usual bidentate apex. Unfortunately, 
pasturage and invasion by Amphicarpaea monoica have latterly 
interfered with the typical locality; and in Sept. 1903, plants 
were few owing to submergence. 
— Cases of fimbriate rays also occur among plants less closely 
connected with A. fimbriatus : 
Solidago bicolor; so seen 1896-8 at Bryn Mawr Park, N. Y. Aster laterifiorus ; 
Taconics, Mt. Ethel, moist meadow along wood- -edge but the plants in the sun, Se. 
1903, at 1,600 ft. 
8. Aster fragrans sp. nov. 
Green-stemmed weak glabrate scattered or loosely cespitose 
plants with dark broad-based long-acuminate leaves, shlient teeth, 
anda loosely-massed uniform inflorescence with prolonged pedicels 
and rays, lance-ovate bracteals, pink or white-margined narrow 
and highly scarious bracts, and much fragrance both living and 
dry. j 
16, a viria id Bryn Mawr Park, vic. N. Y., Se. 15, '96, iu hb. Bu., with 
iei pen leaf and b 
Stem smooth, terete, obscurely flexuous, 134 ft. or sometimes 
2 ft. high, almost wholly without hair, not very strong, sometimes 
partially decumbent. : 
Leaves thin, firm, smooth to touch, deep green. Sinus present 
nearly to the first branch or above, broad and deep in lower leaves 
(these leaves usually soon perishing), broad and shallow in middle 
leaves, or reduced in most into a truncate brace-base. Petioles 
Leaf-form triangular- cordate or oblong-ovate, suddenly long- 
acuminate, 317 x 2% in. or more, quickly changing upward in 
diffuse plants into lance-acuminate axiles 3x Iin. and elliptic-ovate 
rameals of about 1 in. length. Teeth sharply outwardly salient, 
rather large and conspicuous, curvescent or couchant ; or often 
closer and their backs with but a single curve. Radicals seldom 
seen ; those observed are short, suboval with truncate brace-base, 
crenate-serrate ; produced in rather dry situations. 
nflorescence loose, irregularly subglobose or convex ; or, by 
repeated lateral proliferation, becoming extremely lax and often 
one-sided, especially on subdecumbent plants. Heads nearly all 
» bloom at the same time (unlike its ally A. atrovirens) 1 in. to 
$ broad, 5^. in. high, well-separated by their prolonged divergent 
pills pedicels, 1 to 1 in. long. Involucre small, pale, the 
