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ASTER LIMICOLA 275 
Leaf. surface roughish from long weak scattered bristles. Leaf- 
form ovate-orbicular, broad well to the apex and toward the much- 
narrowed base, usually asymmetrical. Teeth coarse and irregular, 
long or shallow, of crenate-serrate type, often 14 or 24 in. long on 
the radicals. Sinus deep and securiform, much enlarged within, 
usually with two strong reéntrant angles each side of the petiole, 
but in growth commonly overlapped by the basal lobes ; rectangu- 
lar and soon shallow in the lower caulines, and then quickly ceas- 
ing, the plant being remarkable for its large proportion of wing 
petioles or of subsessile leaves with truncate or rounded base. 
Middle caulines ovate-acuminate, rounded into a short broad 
wing. Upper caulines and axiles sessile and lanceolate. Apex 
in lower caulines of apiculate type, very abrupt and acute, % in. 
long; in other leaves rather gradually straight-acute, not ve 
long acuminate. Color full green or rather pale. Hair little, even 
beneath; but acicular appressed bristles occur remotely on the 
upper surface of the radicals, very slender and delicate and scarcely 
thickened at the base. 
Inflorescence flattish, 4—5 in. broad, irregular and rather dense, 
or often scanty, the wide-spread | branches very different in length 
but nearly simultaneous in flow 
Bracts rather narrow, eo T the middle and inner ones 
quite tapering, almost scarious and acute. 
—Grows sometimes in similar situations with A. umbelliformis 
and with similar large plantations of radicals; the leaves are much 
broader and coarser than in A. umbelliformis, the teeth broader 
and coarser, the petioles pilose, ciliate, the leaves more numerous 
to one radical shoot, often 4 or 5 or more, and a little longer 
in proportion to breadth. 
Habitat, wet woods and banks. 
N. Y. vic., Mosholu, Se. 30, '96, many in flower, large colony, continuing the 
next nine years with scanty blossoming or none, but abundant radicals ; in wet muddy 
levels in deep shade of small, close-growing, bur qe trees. — Also seldom-flowering, 
Yonkers, Nermilye's Ridge near Grassy Sprain L. c. Ludlow, s 27; !9£, Di 
Riverdale, Jesi 26, '93, Bi., in early flower. 
N. J., Palisades, various places along the summit. 
Va., Potomac bank, near Washington, July 27, ^77, Z. F. Ward in hb. Bu. 
48° Lilacifolial form, small dark green plant with little broadly 
ovate-deltoid leaves but without cordation, much like a lilac lea 
in size and shape; allied in its wing-petioles to the above. 
W. N. Y., Indian Twin brook, Oc. 20, '96. 
tt Narrow petioles continuous up nearly or quite to the axils. 
|| Radical leaves reniform or deltoid-orbicular, larger, thickish, 
roughish. Species 49. 
