ASTER SCHREBERI 277 
49. ASTER SCHREBERI Nees. 
Large ample-leaved plants forming conspicuous colonies, with 
most radical and cauline leaves broadest near the base; with 
rounded curvescent-serrate margins, and broad or rectangular 
sinus, thick obtuse bracts and moderately large heads. 
Aster ane DA 
Fic. 64. 
Name from the botanist von Schreber, Linnaean editor, professor and director 
of the botanical garden of Erlangen, who was the source of Nees’ type specimen; see 
p- 281. 
Fic. 63, with facsimile of the name Aster Schreberi as written in Nees’ hand : 
d, the oldest known herbarium specimen, one of the Mus. of Paris of 1828, hb. Gray, 
$ natl. size; 2, the common native type corre nite from Yonkers, N. Y., near 
Caryl, Au. 3, '99, reduced to 4, with its radical e, 44, natl. size. Rays omi itted. 
Fic. 64, 4, — nius. tipa as AEDn on May 21, '88 ( Rock 
Cr, D. Cy i natl. si: a, Al th typical radicals; Schoharie Cr., 
wr yr > to natl. size. 
: A. Schreberi Nees, Syn. Ast. 16. 1818, with brief description, see infra. 
