ASTER SCHREBERI 283 
Costa saepe hirta perstat, Basis trinervata in superioribus foliis. [So far applies fairly 
well to 4. Schreberi as now mantained.] In varietate 3 folia inferiora quandoque in 
ambitu he et petioli eorum longe ciliati deprehenduntur ; post pauca autem folia 
diminuuntur isti pili ambitus et petiolorum evaduntque haé partes, extra folii margines, 
glabrae. [This quick loss of size, roughness and hair, is true of A. subcymosus as now 
maintained, and as representing 4. ScAreber? 3.]— Periclinii foliola margine albida 
ciliata, dorso viridia, obtusa, inferiora ovata, media oblonga, intima lanceolata angusta 
tota membranacea. [This applies well to the bracts of A. subcymosus ; by changing 
tota before membranacea to read saepe, or by reading ** somewhat," it would apply to A. 
Schrebert. e character of whitish margins and sean back is still more intensified 
in A. vittatus, a Schreberan ees em peter Nees never saw.] 
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of 1818 both ? and avtabieg to say that the Jength of the rays surpasses the height of 
the involucre, as he had said in his general character for the species already, and as 
would be abundantly true for both species], anguste lanceolatae [apt for 4. subcymosus 
and A. ambiguus], albae. Caulis saepe purpurascit [apt for A. ambiguus, not for the 
other species blende 
Adnot. In ETD Asteris macrophylli apud Willdenovium Lurybza 
Schreberi et E. macrophylla promiscue traduntur [see infra, under Bie 
1836. DeCandolle, Prodr. 5: 264, prey the plant as 
Biotia Schreberi, appropriately mentioned the decompound-corym- 
bose inflorescence, coarsely-serrate, leaves minutely roughened 
misunderstanding the material from Nees, who had sent a living 
into the lettuce-leaf stage, with a tuft of non-cordate leaves in- 
stead of the few normal cordate radicals. Or what Nees printed 
in 1832 may have been misinterpreted. Nees, Gen. Ast. 137-8, 
had distinguished his two varieties of A. Schreberi by the char- 
acters 
* Foliis radicalibus reniformi-orbiculatis," and 
** Foliis radicalibus saepe ovato-orbiculatis.” 
By these expressions Nees meant general outline irrespective 
of sinus. He did not mean that cordation was lacking, for both 
varieties were comprehended under his preceding general char- 
acter 
“ Foliis reniformi-cordatis.”’ 
But in some way missing this last statement, DeCandolle pro- 
nounced A. Schreberi to be non-cordate, and that mistake prob- 
ably long prevented its identification with any native plant of the 
United States. 
So the species A. Schreberi dropped out of further recognition 
until 1898, except as Boott identified plants as belonging to it 
