168 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
subentire, serrulate, or serrate, the teeth straight or couchant. 
Axiles soon cuneate at their sessile base, lance-acuminate. Leaves 
rough or very slightly so. Puberulence not obvious, but abun- 
dant over whole stem and petioles as well as leaves 
Inflorescence loose, irregular. Heads medium in size, about 
I in. broad. Bracts triseriate, with much deep green from the 
acutish or apiculate tip half way down, darkest at the tip and 
margins. Rays narrow, about 9, their apex narrowed and entire. 
Sometimes the tendency to twist manifests itself in spiral rays of 
many turns. Disks turn purplish-brown. Achenes dark brown, 
smooth, clavate-terete. 
T banks and cliffs, Mass. and L. Erie to Va. 
a Lane, Au. 29, !93. 
: ae pai Duyvil Cr., Cock Hill, Se. 22, ’98. Inwood, Dyckman 
rock, Se. 24, M^ Indianfield, P 6, '98. Mosholu, clay bank, Se. 30, '96. 
Woodlawn Sua swamp, Se. 16, ai: Bryn Mawr Park, Palmer Av. Pool, Se 
17,'98. Palmer Av. Rocks, da 26,'96, Se. 18, 97, Se. 17, '98 ; the latter with 
spiralled rays; a ean had fallen on it below the flowers, causing a huddled growth 
of cop anges Abs by long pedicels. Hillview, Se. 19,97. Fordham, rocks 
north of, Se. 
W. a x , Silver Ph het High Br., Au. 17, '96, type; Au. 10, ’98. Little 
Indian Falls, on rock wall, 13,98. Pt. Gratiot, Au. 29, ’96. 
D. C., Mintwood x Oc. 22.88. 
I4. Aster camptilis sp. nov. 
Arcuate weak-stemmed smoothish small-flowered plants of 
wooded banks, with thin oblong-acuminate serrate leaves, slight 
sinus, lanceolate axiles, and uniform pale subacute bracts. 
Name, Z. camtptilis, bent, from the bent or decurved stems. 
Fic. 22, plant from Silver Cr., N. Y., Au. 17, '96, in hb. Bu. 
Stem green or brownish, terete, irregularly and slightly flexuous, 
toward the top gradually recurved or strongly bent downward. 
Occasional stems however become stronger and nearly erect; but 
in other kindred species growing with it on shaded slopes, the 
erect stem is the rule, not the exception. 
Leaves quite uniform, 3 x 1 17 in. or less, very thin, rather 
dark green, pale beneath, oblong-acuminate in type, the lowest 
ones ovate-acute and much shorter, the axiles sessile but still pro- 
longed and lance-acuminate, the rameals the same or oblong- 
acute, very much shorter but much broader in proportion. 
Petioles short, slenderer, cuneately winged above. Teeth moderate, 
continuous, of serrate type, with some curvescent and dentate ones 
intermix 
