216 DESCRIPTION OF ASTER; DIVARICATI 
clothed with little ovate leaves following upon a few much larger 
basal ovate leaves. The same effect is “produced regular 
biformis, and in occasional plants by other allies of A. Mi idée 
but is infrequent in the Dzvaricatz. 
N. Jy Palisades; Ft. Lee, Oc. 17, '99 ; lake to south, Oc. 17, '99. 
30° Axilliferous form, differing from the type in having shorter 
peduncles and such extending well down the stem. With the type. 
N. Y. vic., Znood, Se. 22, '98; /ndianfield, Se. 18,’98; Split Rocks, Se. 
i7,'99. 
30' Branchy-base form ; plants repeatedly branching widely 
and divaricately near the base and upward ; often within 3 in. o 
the ground ; sometimes with branches lying on the ground though 
stiff and strong ; plants becoming in this way sometimes about 2 ft. 
broad and 1% ft. high. Unlike the proper branch forms of the 
species, this seems not the result of cropping, but develops its 
main axis in full. Proper truncate-based sessile upper leaves of 
the species first appear in this form on the secondary branches, 
instead of simply subtending the base ofthe primary. The cauline 
leaves are all, or nearly all, axiles, and with a strong broad deep 
sinus. Rameals ovate, elliptic or lanceolate. Ramulars truncate- 
ovate, TANE 
N: Y. ; NAM, shallow grassy ditch by roadside below Dyckman Ave. 
Rock, Se. 24, 106, p^ ^97, 5e. 22; sà Se. 14, 96, 900. 
NE. P down Se. 27, '97, Se. 14; '99. 
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30° Brush-top form. Very proliferous profuse inflorescence of 
small heads, from long ascending peduncles, overlapping into a 
dense pinnate or corymbose mass, with rather long suberect 
pedicels. Cordate bases few and slight; upper caulines ovate, 
rather large, wing-based; rameals often large and numerous, 
oblong, sessile, passing from taper-based to truncate-based ; bevel 
bracts common. Late, with the type ; seems sometimes to be pro- 
duced as an abnormal growth from the type by strangulation with 
Amphicarpaea, by overcrowding, entangling with other plants, etc. 
N. Y. vie, ae Oc. 6,'99; Woodlawn Heights, Se. 25, 1900 ; 
Hillview, ditch border, Se. 22, 1900. 
N. J., Palisades, Yi dae. Oc. 17, ’99. 
30” Bhightéye form. Differs from type in smaller size, and 
dissolved inflorescence, which is not so remotely pinnate, and is 
intermediate to A. ardens, Each branch bears not an umbel-like 
corymb with upper internodes syncopated, as in typical A. Clay- 
tont, but a stiffly divaricate corymb of remotish spreading branch- 
lets, each of these bearing an umbellule or instead a miniature 
corymb. Leaves smooth and soft in life, rough when dry. With 
