290 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS ; CURVESCENTES 
Habitat, in forest clearings. 
Examples : 
NY. ae oia in Mossy Glen, Se. 6, ^99, in a mountain clearing, 
cut, it is said, 100 years 
Nie Wie, ee, ding McLean Av., Au. 13, ’99. 
Allies. A. sylvicola seems to represent the descendants of the 
original Schreberan type after adaptations to mountain woodlands 
have become fixed, the best specimens occurring in a clearing, up 
a mountain wood-road of a century's use. As compared with all 
LN 
Aster sylvicola 
Fic. 67. 
the many Schreberan types of the more open slopes and pastures, 
it is much darker; the teeth are almost obsolete; villous of 
downy hair is increased ; its leaves are. smaller and of a new 
shape, more typically cordate ; its stem is straighter and slimmer, 
its bract-tips greener, its pedicels longer and fewer. Like A. 
Schreberi it is continuously petioled, even through the inflores- 
