ASTER SUBCYMOSUS 297 
Va., Potomac shore, near Washington, ji "i 175, i F. Ward in hb. Bu. 
. Hb. 
W. Va., Bucklin, '95, Pollock, no. 26 i. S. 
st Hort: Fo XB Biotia latifolia ne P are Hb Ter n Paris label ; dins 
in Hb. Gray, assigned by Gray to 4. macrophyllus L. Other garden spec ur- 
porting to be the B, /atifolia of DC. appear to belong to the A. macrophyllus esaet 
of the present monograph; but this one is without glands, and very different otherwise, 
and appears to belong to the 4. Schreberi 3 of Nees, the A. subcymosus of the present 
monograph, 
54^ Flexicaul form, dark-green, smaller, or equally tall but 
slenderer and more delicate, with curving flexuose stem and sub- 
sessile heads. 
W. N. Y., Rosebrook woods, Au. 2, 1900, and 1901-1904, with the preceding. 
54° Lateral-bud form; long attenuate pedicels, the late lateral 
buds then still sessile ; heads thus very diverse in development in 
flowering-time and the blossoming very uneven. Sinus very vari- 
ve broad and shallow, or deeper and overlapping. With the 
Ct., Shuttle Meadow, Se., '89, Jas. wi hei in hb. Z 
W. N. Y., Cattaraugus Resn., Indian Twin brook, ax 35.965. 
| C., near Washington, July 29, !79, Z. F. Ward in hb. Bu. 
nies Aioni form, even cordated to the inflorescence. 
- Y., Indian Twin, Au. 3, ’96. 
SUBSECTION 3. MACROPHYLLI. 
Violet, lilac or lavender rays, pale or whitish in fading. 
Rays usually about 1 3, tridentate. Plante larger or coarser than 
the preceding (unless it be nos. 61, 73, 84) in rootstock, stem, leaf 
and heads. Colonies of radicals extensive (even more so than in A. 
Schreberi). Texture often very thick, very rough or very rigid. 
Crenate teeth commonly predominant. Bracts less ciliate ; tomen- 
tum of pedicels less crispate, not ranged in lines, either diffused or 
entirely absent. Disks soon purplish-red or maroon. 
Divison A. LAVENDER MACROPHYLLI. 
Lilac rays slowly turning lavender or finally becoming pale, 
dull and whitish, at length brown. (Division B as a rule develops 
More strictly violet rays, changing to purer white ; the color of the 
rays contains more blue in Division B, more red in A; but occas- 
sionally an equally violet head will be found in plants of Division 
-) Radicals heavier and shorter stalked than in B, often less 
numerous, chiefly 3, usually forming larger colonies. 
