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about 8, oblong. Disks turning brown with little red, the short 
disk-flowers borne on very long slender stalks. Achenes smooth 
at maturity. 
Bracts oblong, straight-sided, broad to the bevelled apex, pale 
with slight or short and broad dark tips. Inner bracts a little 
tapered, acutish. 
Habitat, on rocks and ledges and especially on sloping banks 
immediately beneath large rocks, especially on Manhattan Island, 
also on the Potomac in Virginia ; late Sept. and first week of Oct. 
Examples : 
N. Y. vic., 77. Washington, 165th St., rock, Se. 30, ’98, numerous ; foot of 
170th St., Oc. 8, '98, abundant; also Se.’05. Yonkers, Park Hill, rocks, Oc. 10, '98. 
- J., Palisades, Woodcliff, Se. 12, '98, in bud.  Undercliff, top and also on 
the rockface, 8-rayed, Se. 14, '99, abundant; also Oc. 23, '97, when some were 3 ft. 
s Va., Potomac R. bank, Spout Run, Oc. 2, ’88, then deemed a hybrid of A. 
divaricatus. ` 
32. Aster mollescens sp. nov. 
Small yellowish-green erect plants growing in lines from fissures 
in gneissoid rocks, with thickish ovate subsucculent leaves, very 
shallow sinus, very slight serration, pale yellow and brownish disks, 
pale narrow-lingual uniform bracts, and small crowded heads from 
many axils. 
Name, L., from the flaccid subsucculent leaves. 
Fic. 44, top of plant of Split Rocks, N. Y., Se. 25, ’97, in hb. Bu., 24 natl. 
size; 5, characteristic leaf-form ; d, axile form. 
Stem stiff and erect, short, often 1 14 ft., not straight but irregu- 
larly slight-sinuous, terete, green, or brownish in the sun, with no 
obvious hair. à 
Leaves thickish, smooth when fresh and subsucculent, flaccid 
and often drooping, slightly rough when dry, nearly uniform. 
subtruncate base and very broad and shallow sinus continues well 
up the stem. 
Leaf-form ovate-acute ; all small, 3 x 13% in. or less; teeth 
low and remotish, very little developed, but of serrate type ; veins 
cord-like, very slender.  Petioles short, slender, tough. 
Plants predominantly pale, as to stem, leaves, bracts and disks ; 
the leaves yellowish-green ; disks at first whitish, soon pale yellow, 
then pale brown. Leaves becoming pale brown in autumn. Yel- 
low color prevails in the young surculi; old rootstocks become 
pale brown. 
Axiles elongated oblong, somewhat tapered at base and apex, 
2% X 1 in. or less, with short slender petiole or cuneate-wing. 
