ASTER JULIANUS 273 
ing about 1% x 3$ in., either serrulate or somewhat crenulate. 
Rameals about 8, or less, ovate-acuminate and sessile or narrower, 
all produced near the top of the slender branch, leaving about 4 
in. below wholly naked. 
Inflorescence obtusely conoid or somewhat cylindrical, becom- 
ing a high dome with flattish-convex top, its chief branches ascend- 
ing, about 12 of nearly equal lengths, 5 or 6 inches long, 1—2 in. 
apart down the stem, the whole inflorescence often 1 ft. high by 
L4 foot broad. Each branch bears a somewhat umbelliform 
corymb about 2 in. broad, of 6-15 heads. 
eads 3$ in. high or less, subsessile but becoming rather 
a pedicelled, very dissimilar in their time of flowering. 
racts narrow, obtuse, pale and coriaceous, with moderate 
green tips, the inner quite acute. Rays about 8, narrow, acutish. 
Hairs on veins beneath very slender, with about 10-cells, some- 
times 15, hardly enlarged at the base. 
Habitat, wet soil of swamps or ravines, especialy around 
decaying logs, forming small evanescent colonies intermixed with 
other weedy plants : Western New York, in Erie and Chautauqua 
counties, end of July. 
Examples: 
W. N. Y., Fredonia, Cascade Brook, July 30, ’97; plantation ip Sp by 
lumbermen next winter, only a few radicals remaining Au. 9,’98. Cattaraugus Resn., 
near Versailles bridge, in swamp on Halftown hill overlooking Puts Cr., July 
30, 1900, in its prime of blossom. 
Allies. This species seems closely collateral with A. glomeratus 
d A. Eriensis, but is taller, slenderer, with taller, looser sub- 
cylindric inflorescence, different leaf-form, thinner smoother texture 
and sharper teeth. 
Subdivision B. SCHREBERAN ASTERS. 
Inflorescence loose, more irregular, rather flattish-topped ; tex- 
ture firm. Species 4 
* Radical leaves (ds. in extensive colonies, thin, very broadly 
cordate. Species 48—54. 
f Narrow petioles (the radical) long, ciliate ; middle petioles 
winged; upper caulines broadly sessile. Radical leaves ovate- 
orbicular, extremely large and thin, crenate, apple-green. 
Species 48. 
48. Aster limicola sp. nov. 
Plants with numerous large thin rough crenate-serrate radicals 
of ovate-orbicular type, with long ciliate petioles; with ovate and 
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