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ASTER FRAGRANS 155 
Similar to A. fragrans in their long narrow rays are A. 
tenebrosus and A. capillaris ; but they differ in lacking its white 
bract-margins. A. tenebrosus is also readily distinguished by its pre- 
dominantly acute bracts. A. capillaris has much longer and more 
divaricated peduncles, and longer, darker, deep-crimson disk- 
flowers. Long-leaved variants of A. fragrans verge toward A. 
persaliens, which still differs from them in its bracts and its shorter 
pedicels, smaller heads and shorter rays. Irregularly developed 
inflorescences of A. fragrans sometimes verge toward A. atrovirens, 
which is usually more ragged in inflorescence, longer-leaved and 
smaller-flowered. From all allied species Æ. fragrans is distin- 
guished, when typically developed, by its albo-marginate scarious 
bracts, and loose-massed inflorescence. The tendency to fragrance 
it shares with others but possesses in greater degree. Pale scarious 
margins it shares with A. divaricatus, A. atrovirens, A. olivaceus, 
etc., but those of A. fragrans are broader, more numerous an 
whiter at maturity. 
Habitat, scattered along wood borders in grassy places or in 
turf on rocks, the Taconics and L. Erie to Virginia and Ohio. 
Middle of September, late developments lasting a month later. 
Examples : 
Ms., Zacenics, Mt. Ethel, in bud Au. 11, in full flower Se. 8, 1903. Sky 
Farm, Au. 31, 1903, Merchant’s pes on Bashbish R., Se. 1903. Two weeks 
later than 4. tenebrosus which grew it. 
Ct., Salisbury, Au. 18, ae especially abundant near Wochocastinook 
Brook. 
. Y., Round Lake, Se. 99, C. H. Peck in hb. N. Y. St. 
| Y. vic., Znwood, Se. 27,97 ; Van Cortlandt Pc Oe, 2, Ti Spr aes 
Se. 25, 1900, Oc. 2, 1900; Spuyten Duyvil Cr., wooded bank, Se. 
Av. near Lincoln Park, Oc. 2, 1900; Pelham, Se. 20, '98 ; podedes = Fails, 
Se. 24, 1900; Mt. Vernon Glen, Se. 14,’97; Yonkers, Kimball Av., Se. 14, ’97 ; 
Dunwoody grove, Se. 26, 1900; Bryn Mawr Park, Se. d s Se. 26, vé. Se. 15, 
'97, Se. P ' 98, Se. 16, '99, js Aa ee Se. 15, 1500, e 
N. J., Palisades, Se. 
wW. N Va Sr CG par s on Ai Hanover Center, Aster-bank, Au. 
17,’96; Sheridan, An ak 
Penn., PAZ, vic., Au. 30, pue 3 i Redfield as A. cordifolius in hb. Mo. 
Bot. Gard. 
Ohio, Oreton, ‘Vinton CUL ae. 39, 1895, W. A. Kellerman as A. divaricatus. 
D. C., Piney Branch, Se. 22, Louie) ,as ** A. corymbosus, intermediate form 
A.; heads dide as large as A. macrophyllus. 
Great Falls at Kirk Mine, Oc. 11, 1891, Bu., as “A. corymbosus 
X A. macrophyllus.” 
VARIANT FORMS of A. fragrans include : 
8! Sunburnt form; leaves thickened, lengthened; more hair ; 
bracts less scarious ; rays olivaceous with age. 
