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rounded bracts, and grows in dense clumps while 4. campéi/is grows few and scattered 
or loosely. 
N. J., Palisades, Se. '98. 
N. Y., L. Minnewas£a, C. H. Peck, Se. 1,'99, in hb. N. Y. St., **inlow place 
in woods, surrounded by rocks; with long weak slim stem arcuate by nature, and 
could not have been trodden on ; with long limp branches, many of them 10 in. long," 
6 A 
V. N. Y., Silver Cr., gorge, Aster-bank, Au. 17, 96, Rosebrook woods, 
Au., I900, I9OI, 1902 
15. ASTER Boykini1 Burgess 
Slender and weak axil-flowered, all green plants of irregular 
straggling aspect, their leaves oblong-acuminate with enlarged sinus 
and strong teeth. 
Name from Dr, Geo. Boykin of Milledgeville, Ga., its early collector of about 
1840, ‘‘ pioneer botanist '" in Georgia, a correspondent of Torrey and Gray, and source 
of many of their southern specimens (as Aster War osi etc.) ; commemorated in 
Nuttall’s genus Boykinia, ally of ela from the North Carolina mountain 
FIG. 23, plant from Ga., 1840? Boykin in " olu. 
A. Boykinii, Burgess in Small’s Southeastern Flora, 1211 (1903); with 
original description : 
“Stems slender, greenish and glabrate, much flexed ; leaf- 
blades ovate to oblong-acuminate, with broad enlarged sinus, set 
with strong and somewhat outflung teeth; petioles slender ; 
inflorescence lax and irregular, composed of short branches given 
off at a wide angle, often continued in clusters among the lower 
axils ; the upper axils often conspicuous with ovate or subcircular 
sessile bracteals ; disks turning reddish-brown; rays shorter than 
in its ally, A. divaricatus L., from which it differs especially in its 
more straggling habit, narrow irregular inflorescence and less 
coarsely toothed, less prolonged leaves.—In the mountains, 
Georgia. — Summer. Type, Ga., Boykin, Au. 1840, in Herb. C. 
A Ba 
Stem often decumbent, 1% or 2 ft. high. Leaves thin and 
rather variable. Small oval low-serrate radicals are sometimes 
produced. 
Inflorescence often as well-developed in the lower axils as at 
the tip. Bracts with thin wrinkling margins, oblong. Disks turn 
brownish-red. Achenes smooth, not enlarged upward, fusiform, 
rather strongly striate-ridged. 
Unlike the next species, A. flexilis (with which it sometimes 
grows), in its brighter green, its thinner, longer leaves, broader 
sinus, more numerous and lax heads with longer pedicels, and its 
thin-edged acuter bracts. The teeth are much larger, longer and 
more outflung than in A. fexilis, though less so than in A. divari- 
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