156 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
N. vic., rand, Se. 27,97. Yonkers, Grassy Sprain road, corner of 
pets Hed, Se. 
Ne Je, ae T up at Undercliff, Se. 14,99. 
8? Short-leaf form; more widely and closely branched ; more 
bracteate ; leaves shorter, less long-acuminate ; with crenate round- 
ish-acute radicals 
N. Y. vic., Ravensdale, Oc. 8, 98, bank of the Hudson, Bi., as A. divari- 
cafus var. x. 
8* Scorpioid form ; inflorescence continuously proliferous upon 
one side ; rays and disk olivaceous with age, the disk finally umber. 
N. Y. vic., Van Cortlandt Par£, Oc. 2,'97. 
8* Axiliferous form ; inflorescence descending irregularly far 
down the axils, chiefly one-sided; this and the warm shining disks 
and thickish leaves suggest that it is hybrid with A. C/ayton, which 
grew near ; teeth closer, less salient. 
N. Y. vic., Znwood, Se. 27, !97. 
8* White-saucer form. Strong-stemmed erect plants with large 
broad rays persistently upcurved at the apex, giving to the head, 
for a considerable time, the form of a shallow saucer ; ; especially 
the base. Finally the head at full expansion resembles a flat 
circular plate. Leaves sharply serrate, the broad base strongly 
curved into a prominent sinus. Inflorescence passing from single- 
bunch form in early state to that of a diffused panicled corymb in 
occasional large and vigorous plants. Disks broad, chiefly brick- 
red. Sept., frequent in rich rocky woods near N 
Y. vic., Yonkers, Bryn Mawr Park, about Se. 20,96, zm '98; then chiefly 
destroyed by clearing and strangled by the greatly stimulated grow nan dst 
but many plants were again flowering Se. 14, 1903. Stony ja onesome, Se. 0; 
colony uprooted by a tornado 1901 ; a few surviving, 1903. 
9. ASTER EXCAVATUS Burgess 
Slender apple green plants with long uniform smooth leaves, 
numerous small sharp teeth, persistent narrow sinus, and some- 
what segregated inflorescence with thin, pale, acute and obtuse 
smoothish bracts. 
Name from sinus, seeming as if cut out from the oval leaf-base as if by after- 
thought ; A excavatus, hollowed out. 
G. 17, plant from Bryn Mawr Park, vic. N. Y., Se. 16,99, in hb. Bu. ; with 
more alc leaves than usual; or rather, many plants bear many oblong-lanceolate 
leaves above the triangular 
A. excavatus M c in Small's Southeastern Flora (1903) ; with original 
description : 
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