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298 DESCRIPTION OF AsrERS ; MACROPHYLLI 
Subdivision A. 
Thick heavy leaves, not firm but flabby. Teeth broad, cre- 
nate-serrate ; glandular hair chiefly confined to pedicels and bracts 
and upper part stem. 
Species 55—58 
* Plants stout, rather tall, often 3 ft. tall, with sprangle-top 
inflorescence ; bracts polymorphous. 
Species 55 
55. ASTER MACROPHYLLUS L. 
Stout rough-hairy August-flowering plants of extensive colonies 
on shaded banks, with coarse harsh flabby texture, cordate-oblong 
lower leaf-type, oblong-acuminate upper-cauline type with broad 
taper base, 10-13 lilac rays and broad triangular-acute principal 
bracts. 
Name, L., from the large radicals. 
Fic. 70, piak of Cattaraugus reservation, Au. 13, '98, i ; 6, char 
acteristic leaf type, seen in radicals and lower-caulines; d, d ann pis dn 
e. 
Fics. 71, 1-6, plant from Nees’ herbarium, now in hb. Gray; with facsimile 
of its name in Nees’ hand, Aster ipeo Wie written by Nees on the label probably. 
before 1825 when Eurybia became its generic name to him; plant representing, frag- 
mentarily, a part of Nees’ Mice of this species; 3, 4 and Em radicals; 6, a 
young pant shoot with 2 primitive scales and 2 intermediary sc 
S. 71, 7-8, ** A. macrophyllus” as understood by uin fidelabels of 
Bernhardi hrid in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar. 8 is an arrest-form of frequent occurrence, 
with shortened stem and with the transitional leaves reduced or suppressed between the 
slender-petioled lower type and the wing-based upper type; two such arrest-form repre- 
sentatives occur in the Bernhardi hb.; and Engelmann’s Hort. Salzwedel plant of 1825 
is enr een 
S. 71, 9, IO, radical leaves of the ** A. macrophyllus”’ of ** Hort. Salz. 
wedel, Maia: 1825," in hb. Geo. Engelmann, now in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar 
A. canadensis, filiis in imis amplioribus cordatis serratis. Vaillant, Act. 583. 2. 
A. Acadiensis, coronae solis folio, H. R. —i, e, * S i er gd with leaf 
resembling that of sunflower” [large, broad, subentir rse]; 
cultivated under this name in the Hortus Regius of Paris (and so named by i its di- 
rector Antoine de Jussieu, as far back as his activity there in 1718?). Cited as its Paris 
garden name, Lamarck, Encyc. méth., 1: 307 (1783); Lamarck frequently citing the 
garden-labels of Jussieu 
A. macrophyllus L., ‘Se pl., ed. 2, 2: 1232 (1763); and continuously so of most sub- 
sequent authorities, as Lamarck, Aiton and Willdenow in a Link, nde Sprengel, 
crophyilus a, a Sp. pl. 33: 2036 (1804); not his var. B, which 
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