176 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
All specimens when dried, of one year or several years, possess 
a fragrance reminding one of sandalwood though more delicate. 
It has been likened also to the ‘‘ straw-mahogany " of cigar boxes. 
It seems also somewhat attar-like. The odor seems independent 
of poisoning by immersion in alcoholic solution of corrosive 
sublimate, occurring in plants with or without poisoning. I 
doubt however if it ever survives gluing in mounting. It is 
particularly weu developed in A. fragrans, and many others of the 
northern Divaricati possess the same in moderate or slight degree ; 
as well as more distantly connected composites. All others to 
whom I have submitted examples of it have agreed with me re- 
garding this delicate but doubtful fragrance, one pronouncing it 
“exquisite and one of which I could never tire.” 
18. Aster capillaris 
sp. nov. 
Small stiff slender 
plants with ovate-acute 
leaves; long low or curv- 
escent teeth, moderate per- 
sistent sinus, crimson 
disks, long narrow rays, 
and bracts rather uniform- 
ly somewhat thin and- 
acutish. 
Name from the slender rays. 
Fic. 26, plant from Silver 
Cs, N: V., Au, 27, '96. 
Stem terete, somewhat 
flexuous, deeply forked at 
an acute angle (about 35 
degrees), brownish or red- 
dish. Somewhat like 4. 
divaricatus, in its moder- 
ately flexuous terete 
brownish stem; like A. 
persaliens in its many 
curvescent teeth some of 
which become couchant; its long narrow rays; its bunched or 
