158 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
Petioles very slender, very short, and very persistent ; still 
slightly present in the lanceolate rameals. No obvious hair; but 
abundant, by lens, over the pedicels, though scanty elsewhere. 
Bracteals often triangular-linear, with clasping base, sharply 
serrulate 
Inflorescence irregularly convex, of somewhat separated 
clusters, borne on rather long rues branches at a high angle. 
Heads rather large, I in. eM WE ;in.high, or less. Bracts rather 
broad, with pale scarious cds ‘of moderate breadth and brown- 
ish or yellowish tinge, their midrib a narrow elevated line, their 
green tips rather dark and CM. 
Rays oblong, rather broad, jj in. long when dry, about 9 in 
number, sometimes 7 or 6. Disks full and broad, sometimes 
virescent before reddening. 
— Resembles 4. fersaliens, and sometimes accompanies it ; 
like it in its long narrow leaves; unlike it in their less attenuate 
acumination, their broader base, their narrow sinus persistent well 
up the stem ; and in their greatly reduced teeth. 
— Resembles A. fragrans somewhat more, in its bracts; but 
its leaves differ in almost every respect. 
Habitat in half shade or wood-borders, Catskills to the Great 
Smoky mountains, descending to 300 ft., when approaching New 
York City. Chiefly in the first half of Sept. 
Specimens include : 
N. Y., Z. George, '95, Mrs. Watrous in hb. Colu. 
. Y., Catskilts ;. Kaaterskill Mt., Se. 17, '99; Hunter, wood-fringes of 
e E Chair Mt., Se. 6, '99; higher, and lower, on Mossy Brook, Se. 5, '99; to 
2500 
Y. vic., Yonkers; : pereas “rich high woods tuward Grassy 
Sprain L., Se. 17, '98, Aster —— i., many plants; Se. 22, '99, Bu., chiefly 
out of flower. Vermilye’s ER Bu t., Se. 23,’99. Bryn Mawr Woods, Se. 4, '98, 
Bi. ; Palmer Av., Se. 16,99, Bu., typical locality ; also Se. 16, 1900. McLean Av., 
west of Caryl, ro Se. '99; Dunwoody, ** woods north of St. Foih fyran Qc. 
2; 09," BL 
N. J., Palisades, at Alpine, Se. '99. 
Va., Salt Pond Mi., Au. 25, '99, Stn and Maxon in hb. U. S. N. Mu., 
No. 357,127. 
N. Car., Highlands, 1888, G. H. Boynton, No. 18,950 in U. S. Natl. Herb. 
Ga., White tefield Co., rich shady woods east of Dalton, on Oostanaula ros 
gie alt. 720 ft., Se. 7, 1901, A. M. Harper, no. 1,286, in hb. N. Y 
. C., Andrews Bald, Swain Co., Au. ’91, alt. 6,000 ft., Beardsley and 
Kofoid, ed Long Knob, Heller; both in G b. 
9! Branch-forms have small soror and narrow biacuminate 
subsessile leaves. 
