274 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS ; CURVESCENTES 
triangular caulines and winged petioles, short spreading branches 
and small heads. 
Name, L., ** "augetur the plant pp T ied p in din 
1G. 6 t of Mosholu, N. Y. City, 30, ’96, i y Bae, 
reduced to 1; 4 pi an js form, of lower caulines, p of seat yos: 
group of May 18, 14 natl. size, showing one primordial, e. 
tem green or pale, slender, 2% ft. high or less. Radicals 
large and very thin, apt to number 3, sometimes 4 or 5, seldom 
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Aster limicola kje 
Fic. 62. 
only 2; 10 x 6 inches or less; their petioles ascending, 6-9 in. 
long, ciliate with two rows of long spreading remote but conspicu- 
ous multicellular hairs. Primordial cordate-triangular, acutish, 
about 34 in. long and broad, with broad conspicuous curving sinus, 
and slender petiole twice its own length, soon perishing (yellow- 
ing by May 18, N. Y. City). Rootstock short, dark and thick, 
with very short condensed nodes, ascending 1 or 2 in. from that 
of the previous year. 
Lisci Dose 
