272 DESCRIPTION OF AsTERS; CURVESCENTES 
47. Aster Julianus sp. nov. 
Slender plants with thin, ovate-acute, subcrenate leaves, with 
broad, deep sinus, scanty hair, acute-angled branching and obtuse 
bracts. 
Name, L., ‘‘ belonging to July ” ; its frequent flowering before the end of July 
being unusually early among asters. 
Fic. 61, from plant of Cattaraugus Cr., July 30, 1900, in hb. Bu., 14 natl. 
size, with two radicals ^ ; rays omitted ; 4, characteristic radical leaf-type ; second 
cauline leaf figured shows the chief cauline type. 
Stem smooth, terete, brown and straight, 3 14 ft. high or less. 
Rootstock for some distance slender and horizontal, and then 
arising in a stout and vertical 
portion continuous with the 
stem. 
Leaf-form cordate-ovate, 
acute, broadest slightly above 
the strong deep sinus, with 
rounded and somewhat semi- 
circular basal lobes, curvescent 
teeth, and long, slender peti- 
least when fresh), dull green 
and paler beneath. 
Radicals 5 x 3 in. or less, 
of scraggly and unkempt 
aspect, slightly roughened 
towards the margins, and 
with a very little hair on the 
veins beneath, their petioles 
10 in. long or less, terete and 
brittle, brownish green. 
Caulines numerous, rather 
with petioles of equal length. 
Middle caulines broader, with 
shallower, broader sinus, 
subcrenate, their slender peti- 
oles equalling half the leaf-breadth. Upper caulines becoming 
ovate-oblong with truncated or somewhat rounded base and short, 
broad wing. Axiles lance-oblong with short wing, finally lance- 
acuminate and sessile for the uppermost 4 or 5 inches, these remain- 
