ASTER ULMARIUS 245 
Radicals, a few small ones seen, cordate-orbicular, with shal- 
low sinus, 24 in. across. 
Heads $ in. broad, 2 high. Inflorescence sometimes reduced 
to 3 or 4 subsessile heads in each of the uppermost axils. 
Rays ¥ in. long or less. 
Disks turning purple ; and the whole plant becoming deep crim- 
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FIG. 49. 
son or maroon in late autumn, with the veins darker and clouded, 
the whole leaf often beautifully marmorate. 
Paths and dark banks of streams and moist cold woods, not 
Owing its character to that situation alone, however, as it may be 
found surrounded by forms almost in contact with it which are 
tall, arcuate, decumbent, profuse-flowered, large flowered, smooth- 
eaved, pale-leaved, solitary, or long-surculose ; to each of which 
characters A. u/marius is the opposite. 
