240 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; DIVARICATI 
35. Aster arcuatus sp. nov. 
Small rock-loving deep-green tufted plants with short broad 
leaves, moderate serration, broad deep subtruncate sinus, small | 
heads, broad rounded and truncate bracts, about 8 rays, and brittle 
half-reddened arcuate stems. 
Name, L., arched 
FI ant nag po N. Y., Se. 14, ’99, in hb. Z»., the arcuate 
stem but little more closely bent than in natu 
Stems several or many in a P about 2 ft. in length, 
variously arching by sweeping curves, or geniculate at the base 
AS MER S TES ape EF i Ae Eel oe ca a] 
2 | 
cf 1 D AY : 
Aster arcuatus 
Fic. 47. 
and then ascending, or continuously flexed and finally drooping 
from the face of rocks. Stems partly reddened, generally greenish 
toward the summit ; without obvious hair, slender, brittle, terete, 
rather leafy. 
