210 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
Inner bracts pale, linear, tapering at the end to a rather obtuse 
point. Ciliation rather strong on the outermost bracts; their 
backs smooth or with some scattered tangled hair. 
Rays long and narrow, their white often dull or slightly vires- 
cent, very variable in number, sometimes only 6, but often 12. 
Heads terminating each main branch. Form at first a small 
dense glomerule, usually soon widely and unequally separated by 
development of simple or branching pedicels. 
In deeper shade than A. divaricatus, Mass. and L. Erie to 
North Carolina. Late in August. Specimens include : 
M. V., Mark’ s-valley Road, on side-hill in bushes, Se. 7, ^98; leaves much 
maller in sea-air and sand than leaves of inland correlatives, but larger than in the 
essa A. m of that sea-coast 
N. ; Bryn Mawr pas Se. 4,798, Bi. Mile-Square road, Se. 25, 
N. pu c€— Kaaterskill = Se. 7, °99. 
WOON Yo , Pt Gra E Pu, Au. 21,'96, Au. 29,'96 — 
bloom), Au. 3 and 11, '97 pa un edes A u. I9, 798, Au. 22, 99, Se. 2, '99 ; July 
I9, 1900 (young buds); nearly Sued out, IgOI-1903. Fredonia, Se. 1, '96, Se. 
11, 96, etc. eridan, Au. 15,796. Silver Cr., Au. 15,'96, to’97, 98,99, 1900- 
1903. Hanover, near High Br., Au. 17, '96 ; near Little Indian Falls, zu 41,799. 
Cattaraugus, Indian reservation " ** 1saac? rq > Perrysburg, Au. 19 
En a., Phila. vic., Au. 30, '69, G. H. R. as ** A. cordtfolius,”’ in e Mo. Bot. 
ard. 
Va., Potomac bank, above Washington ; c Run, 788. 
P» Sera Co., alt. 5,000 ft., pm 'gr, H. C. Beardslee, A. corym- 
6osus,"' in ag U..S. N. Mu, as no. 18 
ee, s Bald, alt. 6,000 I ’91, Beardslee, as 4l. corymbosus, in hb. 
Mo. Bot. dum 
28? Sprout-forms show broader rays, smaller leaves, and many 
leaves of ovate shape with non-truncate rounding bases; inflores- 
cence still proliferous but small, segregated, the little cymules less 
readily becoming diffuse. Su ch persist in clearings and often 
flourish well although prostrated by trampling. 
28° Condensed forms, either in sun or shade, resulting two 
successive seasons, '99 and 1900, from unusual prolonged drought. 
They showed the effect chiefly in the inflorescence, only their 
main branches developing and their heads remaining subsessile or 
but little separated in their remotish cymule 
Au. 23, !99, Se. 2, '99, Au. 1900, in W. N. Y. 
28' Bushy form, with bronzed leaves, stout erect stem, and in- 
crease of leaf-substance making them membranous rather than 
tissuey, and roughish in drying. More in sun. Disks purpled 
or maroon ; intermediate to A. divaricatus alatus. 
W. N. Y., Hanover, Au. 17, ' 96, 
