ASTER SEXTILIS 161 
N. Y. wie APA bank of the Hudson to the south, Oc. 16, '98, Bi. 
vinci de Glen Park woods, Se. 25, '98, Bz. Mayflower —— Se. 17, *98, Bw. 
, Palisades, enixa Oc. 17,'98, Bu.; one of these plants on the 
talus S n in deep shade, showed repeated Danai and crowded internodes, 27 
leaves of size 2 X 24 inches, occurring within 3 inches of stem. 
1. Aster sextilis sp. nov. 
Low smoothish early-flowering plants with oblong-lanceolate 
closely slit-serrate leaves, pale acutish subciliate bracts, small 
heads and slight sinus, tending to growth in the axils, to con- 
tracted caudate acumination, to pale short-petioled stiffly-directed 
leaves and reddened stems. 
gs L. sextilis, of sii from its early blossoming, chiefly ne ig. 
I9, plant of Woodlawn Woods, N. Y. vic., July 31, '98, in M., 
l by: E P Bicknell ; 4, its ves lef; d, broader-based more spear- UM 
leaf-form, frequent on more scattered plants, Au. IT, '98. 
lant narrow, often so closely clustered as to produce elong- 
ated branchless stems, soon leafless below, but foliose or florifer- 
ous in the upper axils. Radicals not seen. Stem smooth, slen- 
der, continuously slightly flexed, terete and reddened. 
Leaves thin, usually apple-green or yellowish green, mostly 
stiffly ‘oie their petioles very short and slender, or sometimes 
winged a 
Leaf ihn oblong-acuminate from a broad base, incurved or 
sometimes straight-tapering, usually produced into an entire cau- 
date extension, sometimes almost a bristle. Teeth slender-acumi- 
nate, very close, forward-directed. Sinus sharp and slight, orin a 
few middle caulines broad, shallow and brace-based. Veins rather 
closely pinnate. Rameals usually sessile, inconspicuous because 
so narrow, but often an inch long. Lower caulines early lost, 
FERRARE short and broad compared with those seen at 
flowering tim 
Heads PA AR S close- papra or finally divergently separ- 
ated, very small, often but 17 in. broad. Rays apt to be short and 
few, 5 or 6. Disks dull yellowish, soon turning brownish. Bracts 
resembling those of A. divaricatus L. in being thick, coriaceous 
and oblong, but paler, tangled-ciliate, with little green at tip, nearly 
smooth-backed, and chiefly acutish, the lower sharply triangular- 
acute, the second broad, the others prolonged-triangular. In 
young globose buds the bract-margins are white from their ciliation, 
with a slight purple margin within. 
In grassy wood-borders or half-green spots. Taconics to 
Lake Erie, chiefly in August or even in July. 
