270 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; CURVESCENTES 
If Bernhardi travelled and collected in America himself, 
experience would account for the fact that Bernhardi was Nees’ 
special informant respecting. the experience and practice of Ameri- 
can collectors,* e. g.. 
Ws do. p. 77, ei a tells ie ee American botanists knew as 
ds Ee ie neni which Nees called A. oblig 
65, Bernhardi informs Nes that Neg xad of the New World ” call 
by the name A, hyssopifolius the species which Nees sailed Galatella dracunculoides. 
Bernhardi's own original aster species were four, and all fall 
close together in the Biotian group, A glomeratus, A. subcymosus 
ably a form or ally of A. macrophyllus. Of these A. glomeratus 
best commemorates Bernhardi, being the only one given specific 
rank by Nees in his monograph. Unfortunately no specimen 
bearing any of these names survives in the Hb. Bernhardi as now 
preserved at the Missouri Botanical Garden 
Nees’ original description of A. glomeratus, Gen. Ast. 139, i 
as follows : 
2. Eurybia glomerata Bernh. 
E. folii iis inferioribus sinu nis porius alate Peces Segre ovato-ellip- 
I n ambitu subtus ad costas scabris, caule glabro 
apice thyrsoideo, periclinii arcte deren foliolis ovatis be fon vix ‘periclinium 
acqua 
i pieni aod ipe Bernh, i 
Jp sitione (Berahardi . Vidi exemplum spontaneum siccum, a ab 
amiciss. Heic rdio traditum. Accedit ad Eurybiam Schreberi, a qua quidam inflores- 
centia compacta floribusque minoribus facile Setihiroitur. Cask is A r glaber, 
o api isus. Folia ra i exemplo desun 
erjecti ra 
pollicares, in apice caulis approximati, erecto-patuli, angulati, ad _angulos pubescenti- 
scabri, basi nudi, apice foliis l que su ubs essilibus 
agglomeratis praediti. Calathia — 6 circiter lineas lata. 
duplo brevius, ovatum, pubescen ; fo li ola arcte im mbr ricata, obtusa ; inferiora ovata, medio 
, margine 
d maj 
linearia, tota membranacea, purpurascentia. Clinanthium planiusculum, alveolatum, 
marginibus alveolorum in dentes breves acutos solutis. Flosculi disci lutei, demum 
*Still more frequently Bernhardi was Nees' authority for habitats; for Pennsyl- 
vania in case, p. 107, of A. ericoides — as well as for A. glomeratus; for New York in 
case, p. 88, of a form of A. eminens, p. 110 of A. Mes p. 114, of A. pendulus ; 
for Virginia, p. 83, of a form of 4. luxurians, one of many specimens furnished by 
Bernhardi to the hb. Günther; for Carolina, p. 67, for a je ed form of A. 
— in Bernhardi's herbarium ; and p. 139, for North America as the source of A. 
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