ASTER GLOMERATUS 263 
also in its growth more in the sun, and more inclined to form 
roundish clumps of many close stems. 
** Bracts ciliate ; teeth of crenate-serrate type. Heads 
in a domed mass, quite compact ; leaves of coarse heavy texture. 
46. ASTER GLOMERATUS Bernhardi in Nees. 
Small rigid plants with little firm rough roundish leaves, close 
crenate teeth, broad deep sinus, pilose veins or under-surface, short 
rays, subsessile heads, obtuse bracts, and wide-angled branching. : 
Small state. of Aster Moon 
defex Hb Paris che from L. Erie 
Fic. 59. 
Name, L., from the inflorescence. 
Fic. 59, small states; d, e, f, the ancient 4. glomeratus specimen of the Hb- 
Mus. Paris, as drawn in 1900; and a, 4, c, corresponding native examples from Can. 
adaway Cr., near L. Erie, Au. 10, ’96, in hb. Bu. 
Fic. 60, plant from L. Erie, Rosebrook woods, N. Y., Au. 31, '99, coll. Bu. 
in hb. Bu.; 4, characteristic leaf-form, lower caulines; 4’, of middle caulines. One 
fifth natl. size. 
