262 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; CURVESCENTES 
longer than the leaves, the middle ones hardly as long as the leaf- 
breadth, and ceasing with the axiles. Veins usually smooth be- 
; neath, pale above. 
Sinus becoming finally 
shallow and broad in the 
upper caulines, which are 
deltoid or are lilac-like and 
soon apt to become short- 
acuminate and much re- 
duced in size. 
Hair almost absent, 
even from the bracts. 
Inflorescence composed 
of a number, 3—6, of densely 
glomerate clusters, the 
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conspicuously so in large 
plants 
Heads small, subsessile; 
involucre j5;-in. high, bracts 
rigid, brownish, obtuse, or 
the lower acutish, chiefly 
with diamond-shaped 
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green-tips. 
Pappus copious, soon. 
Fic. 58. dark, tawny within three 
ears. 
Rays 6-8, but very often partly dicit. dull white, rounded 
at apex, often drooping, sometimes rose colored in the sun. 
Habitat, low grounds in slight shade of thickets or thin trees, 
L. Erie shore in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
Examples : i 
- N. Y., Sheridan, Reed's swamp, Au. I, 1900. Hanover, Rosebrook 
woods, July 31 and Au. 2, 1900. Silver Cr., Talcott’s Brook, Au. 15,’96, Pomfret, 
Glasgow, Au. 14, '96. Cattaraugus Resn., Big Indian Cr., July 31, '96; Indian 
Twin brook, Au. 5, !96. 
from A. glomeratus which it most resembles, in its 
earlier blooming longer rays ; smoother leaves with almost no hair 
beneath, even on the veins; bracts more apt to be acutish, and 
almost wholly non-ciliate; axiles much larger; stem more red- 
dened; teeth about twice as close, of slit-serrate type.  Diffe 
