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Achenes coarsely striate, glabrate at maturity or wholly with- 
out hair, a little twisted and constricted at the summit. Pappus 
slow in reddening, about equally tinged in plants of 1, 5 and 10 
years, but deeply so in plants of presumably 70 years. 
Habitat, in slight shade, among thickets and bushes, along 
fence-rows, brook-borders, rocky ledges or wood-openings, Middle 
States from the Hudson to Detroit and the Potomac. 
Examples, usually originally labelled either A. corymbosus or 
A. macrophyllus or A. macrophyllus var. 
N. Y., Cats£i/ls, Hunter, ** A. cnin SI, d " in hb. Mo. Bot. 
Gar.; E along the Schoharie Cr., Se. 5, 6, 7, '99, Bu., and at Kaaterskill Junction, 
Se. 7, : Quick’s bridge on the He an Se. 7,99 (with plants closest known 
Nees' Folie Colonel's Chair mountainside, Se. 6, '99 
Mi e rk in Aug., C. H. Peck in hb. N: Y. Sr. 
= Ly psa 9I, H. H. Rusby in hb. Colu., with very large heads. 
onkers, Troublesome Brook, heads in seed, Oc. 28,'96; 
I "ea ane pia ^ ledge, Au. 1,'98; Mott Farm, Au. 1900; podia 
905. 
N.Y ts da in hb. JV. Y. State, 1837-43. 
N. rd Puce SOF: 
Pa., Easton, T C. Porter, ’88,’92,’95, 96; Bushkill Gap, 7yler, '96; 
Bloomsburg, Heller, '89, in hb. Porter; Millvale, Allegheny Co., Curtiss, in hb. 
Porter, 
Mich., Ft. Gratiot, 1849, Dr. Pitcher in hb. Torrey (Biotia Schreberi, 
scripsit E 
C., Lobelia Run, July 16, '86, not yet in flower, 77. W. Henshaw, 
Asarum Rus, '85295, Bu. Broad Branch, ‘‘ Au. 15, "96, a very late date," 77. W. 
Henshaw, Lanier Hts., Brook, '88, B. 
Va., Front Royal, kiwi me dry bank near Cedar L., at 500°, July 18, 
'97, Gerrit s. us ee in his 
slain ni 
5 Paris, Pe A. Schreberi, Nees," in Gray hb. to which Gray 
scripsit ate ares 
Hortus Sen 1832? ** Eurybia Schreberi, Nees," in Gray's hand, in 
Gray hb. 
Hortus Erlangen ? 1820? ** A. Schreberi Nees,” in hb. Bernhardi, 
Hortus Breslau ? 1830-53, specimen of Nees’ in British Museum. 
Variants : 
49° All-reniform form. Leaves all reniform to the branches 
or nearly so; instead of losing the reniform character after the 
; some leaves nearly identical with those of A. violarts. 
With the type, of which this is an extremely accentuated state ; 
Catskills, Quick's rg over the Schoharie, near the head of 
Stony Clove, Se. 7, '99. 
