264 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS ; CURVESCENTES 
A. glomeratus Bernhardi in litt. ad Nees; cited, Nees, Gen. Ast. 139. 1832. 
Eurybia glomerata Nees, Gen. Ast. 139. 1832, with original description ; 
see infra; p. 270. 
Biotia glomerata D. C. gene io : 3583. 1836. 
Aster ewes Bernh. [fide D.C., Prodr., 5: 250]. But perhaps this was by 
Bernhardi meant for a uiis menie in young state and therefore with subsessile 
buds. Such a specimen of young subsessile 4. macrophyllus was not long after this 
identified by Boott in N. Y. or N. England as Biotia glomerata ; fide specimens so 
labelled in Torrey herbarium. Whether 4. g/utinosus Bernh. really represented one of 
the Macrophylli or was correctly relegated by DeCandolle to his g/omeratus, the name 
in any case invalidated, an Aster g/utinosus of Cavanilles, 1790-1801 (later becoming 
Grindelia pagan Willd.) already existing. Another Aster g/utinosus, of Roxburgh, 
as b rred to Commidendron rugosum. See also 466, infra. 
A. a Anii (Nees) Bernhardi; Burgess in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 358. 
1898, with fig. 3739, and description as follows : 
“ Loosely clustered, dull green. Leaves not large, mostly 
short-pilose beneath, thickish, rough above ; basal leaves present, 
these and the lower stem-leaves cordate with a deep narrow sinus, 
the teeth sharp, rather close and small; petioles slender, ciliate ; 
upper leaves much smaller, ovate, truncate with a short broadly 
winged base, or the uppermost ovate to lanceolate, sessile, entire ; 
inflorescence compact, of many glomerate clusters, round-topped ; 
heads about 4 lines high; bracts pubescent, obtuse, green, the 
inner twice as long as the outer; rays about 6, cream-white, short, 
soon deciduous; disk turning brown.— In moist thickets or 
swamps, especially in ravines, N. Y. and Penn. July.” 
all plants in loose colonies with a moderate development of 
radicals, which are chiefly 2, and nearly equal, cordate or cordate- 
oblong, with a deep full sinus, their size reaching about 4 x 3 in., 
or even 5 x 4; often with 2 or 3 additional smaller leaves, 2 in. long 
or less, elliptic, broad ovate or without any sinus. Occasionally a 
particularly strong rootstock will produce as many as 6 radicals 
and all without sinus. Their naked slender petioles equal the 
leaf-length. Usually a single subcircular primordial leaf persists, 
sometimes about 1 in. long, remotely toothed, with a narrow pet- 
iole about 1 77 in. long. 
Lower caulines small, 4 or 5, nearly alike, short rounded-cor- 
date, 3 x 2% in. or less, short-acuminate or abruptly apiculate 
with obtuse apex, with a broad deep conspicuous sinus and slen- 
der naked ciliate petiole; chiefly with sharp crenate-serrate teeth. 
Middle caulines diminished rapidly through subcordate or trun- 
cate-ovate to ovate, with short petioles equalling 1% the leaf-length 
and distinctly winged. 
Upper caulines ovate-lanceolate, often subentire, with a broad 
short wing. 
Axiles oblong-lanceolate, prolonged, chiefly sessile, entire. 
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