246 DESCRIPTION OF AsTERS ; DIVARICATI 
Examples : 
Ms. geao Mt. Ethel, vp in deciduous forest, at 1,6co ft., Se., 1903. 
W.N. Y., Silver Cr., Swift ill, Au. 15, ^96; Aster-bank, numerous, Au. 
17; T Si 34985 bos Indian Cr., pa 20,'96. Chautauqua, Assembly grounds, 
Au. 
je Ca ise Cre, P» s Mill, in deep shades of laurels, Oc. 12, '88. 
Rack Cr., Oc. 9," b 2p 
Md., bcd near ded Falls, at Kirk's Mine, Oc. 11, "o1. 
Tenn., Knoxville, shaded hills, Oc. '94, A. Ruth in hb. Colu. 
Division E. FURCATE ASTERS. 
Small scattered leafy plants a foot high ; bracts triangular-ob- 
long, large and flattish. Species 38—39. i 
38. ASTER FURCATUS Burgess 
Small plants with long harsh ovate-triangular straight-acumi- 
nate leaves, little sinus or petiole, long straight teeth, triangular- 
elongate bracts, and large remote turbinate heads with prolonged 
forking pedicels (whence the name). 
Fic. 50, top of plant of Oregon, Ills., M. B. Waite in hb. Bu., Au. '84: 
à, characteristic TE cauline: g, characteristic radical and lower cauline. 
catus Burgess in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 358 (1898), with fig. 3738, 
and siga isnt : 
“Stem leafy, 11% ft. high, or less, loosely forked above. Leave 
hispid above, hispidulous beneath, firm, saliently cut-toothed, the 
upper sessile, with broad laciniate winged bases, often 5 in. long 
by 2% wide, the uppermost elliptic-oblong, often 3% in. long ; 
teeth long and low, sharp. Heads few (5—20), slender-peduncled ; 
involucre turbinate to campanulate, with a truncate or. rounded 
base; rays 3-toothed ; disk turning brown, the florets funnel-form 
with rather broad lobes; pappus long, straight; achenes pubes- 
cent, subangular, not constricted at the summit. — In woods, 
especially on shaded cliffs, Illinois and Missouri, Aug.—Oct.” 
Rootstock producing several strong reddened surculi at once. 
Stem green, assurgent from a geniculate base, subangular, 
rough with minute short spreading hairs. 
Leaf-surface above like shagreen with innumerable minute 
close spinescent bristles, or when very much shortened, with mu- 
cronate tubercles ; margins not otherwise ciliate. Leaves beneath 
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