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ASTER AUCUPARIUS 191 
entire, ! in. long, nearly as broad; or broader and reniform ; 
becoming yellow and perishing often in July. 
Leaf-color dull opaque green, brownish green when dry ; au- 
tumn color becoming soon deep umber. Leaves pale beneath, 
their veins obscure. Petioles usually narrow, but sometimes de- 
veloping a cuneate wing, 14 or 44 in. long, and then resembling 
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Aster aucuparias 
FIG. 32. 
its ally A. Zszriformis. Rameals not very prominent or charac- 
teristic, ovate, often minute. 
Inflorescence loose, flabellately forked in well-developed or 
mature growth, with irregularly convex top from a deep sharp 
base, with long internodes; peduncles leafless and often 4 or 5 
in. long ; pedicels often 1 in. or more, and diverging widely at 
end of flowering though short and tufted closely at first opening. 
Angle of chief peduncles 25 to 30? from the vertical. Heads 
56 in. broad or less and 36 in. high, of which the involucre is half. 
Involucre pale, rather sharp-based, obconic in pressing. 
