190 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
oblong subentire rameals and dividing only at the summit to pro- 
duce heads, thus suggesting the inflorescence-form of A. Clayton, 
which species the leaves occasionally equal in roughness. Re- 
tains the bracts and other characters of A. argi//arius, and seldom 
exceeds it in size. 
M. V., Gay Head, Blackwater Knoll, Se. 6, '98; not developed Se. 1900. 
22! Rock-seam form, growing in lines in narrow crevices of 
gneissic rocks, and spreading to adjoining slopes.  Differs from 
type in having less brown on stem and bracts, more curvature and 
irregularity in inflorescence, and darker thinner leaves, chiefly 
11⁄4 x Iin. In deep shade. 
IN. Y. e rni cus near quarry, Se. 25, 1900. Bathgate woods, near 
Jerome Ave., Oc. goo 
23. Aster aucuparius sp. nov. 
Wand-like dull green plants, with small, short, ovate-oblong, 
thickish leaves; with sharp, remotish notchy teeth, slight sinus, 
wide-forked slender branches, broad coriaceous dark-tipped bracts, 
and a leaf-type suggesting a leaflet of Pyrus aucuparia (whence 
the name). 
Fic. 32, plant from Palisades, N. J., Se. 29, ’97, in hb. Bu. ; 4, characteristic 
leaf ; d, frequent upper leaf; /, little leaf occasionally replacing ¢, and otherwise often 
present at base of stem. 
Stem erect, stiff, slender, wandlike, terete and smooth, slightly 
and repeatedly zigzag, pale, brownish or slightly reddened, 2 or 
2 1 ft. high. 
Leaf-type ovate-oblong, acute or short-acuminate, with rounded 
base and short slender half-inch petiole, regularly notched with 
rather remote, long, sharp, forward-projecting teeth. Teeth mainly 
straight-backed, sometimes curvescent, extending into the basal 
curve well toward the petiole. Such leaves constitute the middle 
caulines or the upper also, and sometimes extend into the inflores- 
cence. They measure often 2% x 114 or 212 x 14 in., some- 
times 3 X 1%. 
Lower caulines short, cordate-ovate, very short mie 
with moderate sinus or few with any, 3 x 2, or sometimes 4 x 3 
in., serrate.  Axiles, and Nabe nii the upper caulines, abi 
lanceolate, sessile by a rounded bas 
Texture firm rm, dense, not as cde as in its ally A. carmesinus, 
soft, while fresh, except as it is roughened with scattered hai 
above; in most leaves granular-roughened also, when dry. 
Radic als seldom produced, very small, cordate-acute, sub- 
