ASTER CHLOROLEPSIS 211 
28° Hybrid? A. tenebrosus x A. glomeratus? Grew with both 
species, Au. 10, '97, Darby Switch on Canadaway Cr. near Cas- 
sadaga, W. N.. Y. Pale yellowish-green, hoary with pubescence ; 
bracts narrower. Like A. ¢encbrosus, it shows acute bracts, long 
narrow rays, long lanceolate axiles, long flexile branches, and 
lower leaves somewhat typical also. Like A. g/omeratus, it shows 
much obvious hair on bracts, leaves and stem, yellowish green 
color, rough surface, membranous texture, and especially a less 
diffused convex-topped inflorescence with each branch bearing a 
dense glomerule at its summit. In moderate sun. 
Suppivision C. Bracts rounded, short and broad, scale-like, 
all alike. Sp. 29. 
20. ASTER CHLOROLEPIS Burgess 
Dark large-leaved, long-rayed plants resembling A. tenebro- 
sus, but having a sharp deep sinus, crimson disk, moderate serrate 
bracteals, and rounded bracts. 
Name from the prominent green scale-like bracts. Gr. y2opoz, greenish, 
Aeríc, a scale. 
Fic, 38, plant from Grandfather Mtn., N. C., Her, no. 1290, in hb. Colu. 
A. chlorolepis Burgess in Small’s S. E. Fl. 1211. 1903, with original 
description : 
“Stem strong, glabrate, brownish, terete below, angulate- 
striate above. Leaf-blades large, smooth, very thin, brownish 
flung teeth ; sinus deep and sharp ; petioles short, slender; axile 
leaves also large, oblong lanceolate, serrate with long forward- 
directed teeth, the upper ones sessile. Inflorescence loose and 
irregular; heads large, long-peduncled, inclined to be widely 
separated ; rays nearly twice the length of the involucre ; bracts 
quite uniform, thick, broad, short and scale-like, with very little 
ciliation or hair, chiefly golden-brown with a short, broad, dark 
green rounded tip; disks turning crimson. Resembles A. fene- 
brosus in its large heads, leaves, teeth and bracts; differs espe- 
cially in having the sinus sharp, and bracts rounded, and in the 
absence of greatly prolonged entire bracteals. — In the moun- 
tains, N. Y., W. Va., and N. C., reaching altitudes respectively 
of 300, 1,000 and 1,850 gei Fall. — Type, Grandfather Mt., 
N. C.. Heller, no. 1290, in hb. C." 
Also, W. Va., Aurora, dps Au. 26, E. S. Steele in hb. N. 
Y. Bot. Gard. 
