ASTER CLAYTONI CRISPICANS 221 
brook wood, Au. 3, '97, already budded; Cattaraugus reservation, Little Indian Cr., 
Au. 20, '96; Au. 13, '98, budded ; Big Indian Cr., Au. 3, 97, budded ; Indian-line 
'98; Campanula Valley, Au. I9, ore Fillmore's orchar WFO, 
96; Burning Spr., Au. 13,’96. Perrysburg, Dawley woods, Au. 19, ’96. Sus, 
Herrick's woods, Au. 12, '96, Dunkirk, Pt. Gratiot, Au. 29, '96. Fredonia, Marsh's 
woods, Se. I, '96; Dunn's Mill, on shale cliff, Au. '96. 
302 Rose-ray form ; numerous t ith their rays roseate ; 
Fredonia, N. Y., se everal places, '96. 
of A ch crispicans x a. glomeratus. Probable hybrid, in 
general like the former parent, but with heavier leaf-texture, 
rougher and with more hair, shorter leaves and shorter pedicels ; 
dense glomerate clusters ; as if derived from A. glomeratus. 
W. N. Y., Pomfret, Canadaway ravine at Darby switch, Au. 10, 796. 
Subdivision B. BRACTS LINGUAL OR WITH BEVEL-TOP (except 
no. 34). 
Leaves thicker, rougher or subsucculent. Veins cord-like. 
Involucre very small and narrow. Plants loosely cespitose. Sp. 
31-34 
31. Aster ebeneus sp. nov. 
Stout dark-green plants with ebony-red stem, with thick oblong- 
ovate leaves, short-petioled bases, sharply crenate-serrate margin, 
and harsh rough crumbling texture (when dry); with deep profuse 
subpanicled inflorescence of small heads. 
Name, L., from the color of stem. 
Fic. 43, plant from Ft. Washington, N. Y. City, Oc. 8, ’98, in hb. Bu.; 4, 
characteristic leaf-form ; d, e, occasional additional forms. 
Stem of a red so dark as to seem almost black ; or greenish 
pira at the base; stout, brittle, about 2 ft. high, or sometimes 
3 d even then nearly wholly inflorescence; continuously 
slight-simous but erect, with no obvious hair. 
Leaves thick, soft and with some appressed hair when fresh, 
rough when dry, becoming excessively harsh, and of a brittle 
crumbling texture, hispid with scattered appressed bristles above, 
and hispidulous beneath; the cord-like veins bearing weaker but 
more numerous hairs. Sometimes the leaves are almost velvety 
in growth and hardly rough when dr 
Leaf-form ovate-obtuse to oblong-acute, sometimes more 
acuminate and becoming oblong-lanceolate, with brace-base and 
short slender petioles, quite uniform, persisting with little change 
of size and shape into the lower axils, then becoming broad-ovate 
and finally triangular-elongate, with broad truncate base. Lower 
leaves with deep narrow sinus ; and in some cases this persists far 
up the stem; in others it is ‘soon replaced by a broad shallow 
