ASTER EXCAVATUS 159 
9* Sprout-form (or perhaps a hybrid of A. excavatus with A. 
tenebrosus, which grows in its region). Unites the narrow sinus 
and short rounded golden-brown bracts common in A. exeavatus, 
with the large teeth and long rays of A. tenebrosus.  Bracts 
nearly oval, with but very slight ciliation, thin and finely 
wrinkled when dry. Leaves all cordated, not large, ovate to 
oblong lanceolate. Rays few, remote, very narrow; tapering to 
both base and apex, partly perhaps due to imperfect unrolling. 
Heads large, 1 1% in. broad, or less, remote, a few also on long 
straggling pedicels in several upper axils. Rameals oval-acute. 
ome broken stimulated branches show enlarged branch-form 
leaves, oblong-lanceolate with long remote prominent coarse 
straight-backed low teeth and short broad cuneate wing-base. 
Collected by II. C. Beardslee and C. A. Kofoid at 6,000 ft., on Andrews’ 
Bald, Swain Co., N. C., Au. 1891 ; in hb. Mo. Bot. Gard. 
? — Tubular form. Expanded heads still retain many tubular 
but horizontal rays, mingled with others which are canaliculate 
and some which are flattened. No obvious hair; but peculiar 
hair is visible under a lens, on petioles and pedicels, the hairs 
numerous, stiff, ascending, somewhat flattened and broadened 
toward the tips, often with dark tubercle-bases. 
N. Y, vic., Yonkers, ** N. E. of St. Joseph's Seminary, Oc. 2, ’98,’’ Bi, on 
a steep wooded bank sloping to a pond, in deep shade, 3 plants together. 
10. Áster subinteger Bicknell, sp. nov. 
Dark slender allies of A. atrovirens, with lance-triangular 
leaves, greatly reduced serration and cordation, and small diverg- 
ent inflorescence. 
Name, L., from the nearly entire upper leaves. 
Fic. 18, plant from Yonkers, Se. 25, '98, in hb. Bu. 
Stem slender, brown and green, slightly flexuous above, curv- 
ing at the ground into a tough brown short thickish horizontal 
rootstock, at the top of which a short purplish surculus rises up- 
ward at an acute angle, within a half inch of its base bearing 1 or 2 
oval primordial leaves. 
Primordial leaves 14 in. long or only half as long, nearly equally 
broad, with 3 or 4 shallow teeth along each side ; base suddenly 
tapering without cordation into a slender petiole of the length of 
the leaf; apex either truncate or slightly acute. : 
Lower cauline leaves somewhat cordate-lanceolate, with broad 
shallow bract-sinus, giving the base of the leaf a subtruncate 
aspect ; teeth moderately sharp, slender-tipped (rarely couchant), 
becoming rather salient and close toward the middle of the leaf 
