178 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
vanished. Upper axiles caudate-triangular, very attenuate, incon- 
spicuous but numerous. 
All leaves but the last have very short filiform petioles ; fol- 
lowed sometimes by 2 or 3 short broad-wing petioles. Direction 
often erect, with some deflexed and some horizontal. Leaves 
Aster virgularis 
FIG. 27. 
very rough and firm though thin ; their teeth minute, close, sharp, 
of serrulate type pod in larger growths, chiefly finely slit- 
toothed, especially abov 
Inflorescence small, alicia but not dense, nor very short- 
pedicelled. Heads small. Disks turn reddish. 
Bracts rigid, somewhat oblong, narrow, the inner very taper, 
and becoming convex-backed ; the basal broad-oblong, almost 
all roundish at apex and broadly white-margined, or with pale 
brownish margins and little green. Bracts less truncate than in 
A. divaricatus, and with but few chanfer-tips. 
— Differs from A. scutiformis in having fewer scutiform leaves, 
