ASTER GLOMERATUS 267 
Examples : 
N. Nay — Kaaterskill an Se. 7, Mh Bu 4. 
N. Y., Albany C JN Pond, r Albany, in N. Y. Sta spa peoill 
1870-80 jid sigs C.H. P “A. ma latis Mid ‘mall petiolate se 
N.Ya ‘Sandee x i nA n Conhocton R., in N. Y. State Hb., 
"93, 6 P Pac as “A. macrophyllus, form approaching 4. corymbosus.” 
Sb gu. sica Co., Persia, at Forty Hollow, near Gowanda, close to 
iade Cr., Au. 29, '96, , passing out o 
W. pr dida C». , Silver Cr. at Wimer’s Clearing, Au. 21, ’97, in 
Geet in full "n and passing out ; plants not found there since, though searched for, 
'99-1902 anover, Rosebrook woodi , wide-branched plants standing erect and bushy, 
out of flower, Au. 31,’99. Pomfret, Darby Switch, full flower, Au. 10, ’96; some 
surviving '98. 
^ Phoenixville, Se., '96, W. K. Fisher. 
n. ; perhaps it was from the Cove Valley, Pe , Pa., where Póppi 
botanized dn. and whence he supplied ea to Werben "€: Bett? s original 
Specimen came, published by Nees in 1332 
; perhaps it was also from Bo that Michaux's specimen came, now 
in the hb. Mickeus (in hb, Paris): the plant Age o" Pus d e i 
io, near Sandusky, E. L. Moseley in h 
Ga a., Madison abe H. W. Ravenel in hb. pie A ne by Gray at 
me of writing the Synoptic Flora, as ‘‘ extreme form of A. macrophyllus, var. 
bini labelled by Ra 2 ** Biotia commixta ? DC. Sept. Low grounds near 
Madison Springs, Ga., legit ZZ. W. R.” — Plant not A. commixtus, for it has no glands ; 
has short hair on stem and leaves beneath, e on achenes; young heads subses- 
sile, older with % in. pedicels. Seems a loose-flowered, non-cordated plant of 4. 
glomeratus, but has more slender inner bracts than are normal. 
Ga., Beyrich, in hb. Bernhardi, now in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar.; original label 
** Aster cor. sani Ait. Georgia, 1833, Beyrich.”’ d similar to the last, with 
little ovate caulines, only one with slight stipe: ; the wing petioles conspicuous ; 
very rough and coarse, but almost glabrate. 
The usual occurrence of A. glomeratus is in small patches of 10 
to 100 plants, their stems a foot apart or more, remarkably uni- 
form in bloom, and of brief duration, the rays being quickly decid- 
year and returned to examine it another year only to find it obliter- 
ated ; as if its flowering exhausted the vitality of its rootstocks. I 
have then repeatedly visited the spot to see if new growth from old 
rootstocks did not appear, and have found no trace for years 
together; although the land remained uncultivated and undisturbed. 
ose who search for it will not find the glomerate character 
so marked in nature, it being best brought out in pressing. The 
original which suggested the name was itself a pressed specimen, now 
apparently lost, none under this name remaining in the herbarium 
of Bernhardi; nor in the herbarium of Nees as represented in the 
British Museum (Nat. Hist.), and in the Gray Herbarium. 
