ASTER MACROPHYLLUS 299 
A. macrophyllus B, Aiton, Hort. Kew., ed. 2, 5: 57 (1813); not his var. a, which 
covered white-flowered forms. 
urybia macrophylla, Cassini in Dict. des sc. nat. 37: 487 (1825); so Nees, 
Gen. Ast. I40. 1832. 
Biotia macrophylla DC., Prod. 5: 265. 1836. 
Aster macrophyllus L., of T. and G., Fl. N. Am., of Gray's manuals, of his Synoptic 
Flora. and of American botanists to 1898 ; but in part only, being blended with many 
nonglandular white and glandular violet-rayed species. 
A. Herveyi intermedia, C. H. Peck, Rept. N. Y. St. Botanist for 1892, p. 46 
(1893). Not A. intermedius Turcz., ex DC. Prod. 7 : 272. 838-9. 
A. macrophyllus L., in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 1898, and works subsequent. 
Names other than Latin; translation names, etc. 
Grossblattrige Sternblume, Willd. Sp. pl. 33, 2037. 1804. 
Great-leaved Starwort, Forster's Cat. of Plts. of N. Am. 1771. 
Broad-leaved Blue Starwort, A/artyn’s edn. of Miller's Gardener's Dict. 1807. 
Large-leaved Aster, Muhlenberg, Cat. of Plts., 1813; so, Bigelow, Fl. Boston, 
I814, etc. 
Astere à grandes feuilles, Lam. 1 : 307 (1783); so Provancher, Fl. Canadienne 
(Quebec, 1862), adding, **it is known as 
** Pétouane ; its leaves dried are sometimes used as Tabac to smoke; from 
which without doubt the common name Pétouane, which is derived from getun.” ’— The 
Indian name Petun for tobacco occurs as early as 1630, when John Taylor wrote of 
“the hearb . . . petun alias necocianum”’ ; it was the source of Jussieu’s name of 1803 
for the Petunia; and is said to be still used in some parts of Canada for tobacco. 
Figured (or an allied plant transitional to 4. uniformis), Gard. and For. 4: 89. 
1891. Figured, Br. and Br, Ill. BLÉ33 
Stem stout, erect, brownish, glandular-hairy above, minutely 
roughened below by short strigose hairs or their remnant bases or 
finally becoming smooth below ; about 214 ft. high; with rather 
long internodes (often 2 in.); usually not quite straight, and with 
I or 2 flexures. ; 
Rootstocks strong, dark brown, with long reddened surculi, 
forming large colonies sometimes confluent so as to cover thinly 
wooded banks for half a mile continuously, as on the Cattaraugus. 
af-type cordate-oblong, acute or very short-acuminate, with 
strong unequal basal lobes, deep strong asymmetrical sinus com- 
monly overlapped, coarse crenate margin, and long robust narrow 
petiole; seen in most radicals and a few lower caulines. Texture 
thick, rough, coarse and flabby ; variable on the same plant, but 
hardly firm in life; after drying, rigid and very rough. Strigose 
pubescence moderate, present at least on the veins beneath (and 
on the branches : usually on the upper part of the stem also). 
Leaf-color deep green, changing in fall to bronzed umber or 
russet; drying brownish-green or blackish. 
tadical leaves usually 3, not very dissimilar to each other, 
but only one of fully typical form; this the largest, 7 x 5 in. 
