306 DESCRIPTION OF AsTERS ; MACROPHYLLI 
Hb. Bernhardi, also now in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar., a whole sheet, with parts of two 
plants, and old — * Aster cordifolius,’’ ** Aster macrophyllus"" and ** Aster macro- 
phyllus Hort. Hamé.’’ See fig. 71. 
Hb. Engelmann, now in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar. with Engelman's label **4s'er 
"iur rey Hort. Saltswedel, Frankfort, 1825." See fig. 71. 
Hb. Nees, plant now in hb. Gray, and figured here, fig. 71. It bears a label 
s Aster vri aie in Nees’ hand, as attested by Gray. The fact that Nees 
named it Aster, not Eurybia, seems to indicate its date as before 1825, when Cassini 
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published Kis genus Eurybia he specimen was given by Nees to Schultz Bipon- 
tinus, who wrote a new label diig * Eurybia macrophylla Cassini; Nees, Aster, p. 
140,” etc., adding **e herb. Neesii cum ejus autographo, Sz. Bip. Next it seems to 
have gone to Hohenacker, from him to Klatt, and from him, in 1885, to Asa Gray, 
who at one time queried if the plant were not Biotia commixta, "um again added that 
it “is the * Eurybia commixta Hort. Petrop.’ spec. Hb. Kew, perhaps from con- 
sideration of the non-cordate radical on Nees’ c: but pn um radicals occur 
occasionally in nature in 4. macrophyllus as well as in A. commixtus and in all other 
Biotian species. Perhaps the well-known glandular character of Biotia commixta was 
c 
Aster macrophylius proper having been long overlooked. Nees’ poses however, 
noted that Aster macrophyllus has short glandular and odorous hairs mixed with the 
longer strigose hairs, even as low down as the lowest radicals. So has his specimen, 
all over the younger parts, petioles, pedicels, under side of upper stem-leaves, and o 
the separate radicals both above and beneath. Nees’ specimen is wholly unlike die 
Bernhardi plants of Aster commixtus (none of Nees’ seem to have survived). It ap- 
pears to be a proper specimen of 4. macrophyllus, although in fragments and without 
the characteristic radicals and caulines. It agrees with th i 
considered to be 4. macrophyilus "m which is the nucleus of the Æ. macrophyllus 
representation in most American herbaria, in its abundant capitate glands, in their 
location, in its crenate-serrate and curvescent teeth, its large broad-triangular acute 
p ki large heads, and the form of its axiles. 
Mus. Paris, in hb. Gray, obtained as representative of the Biotia macro- 
pts s the Paris i quibua. in 1369. is plant is true to 4. macrophyllus in its glan- 
dular and strigose hair on d and upper foot of stem, and on the leaves 
neath ; also in its bract form; but i unlike 4. macrophyl/us in its rectangularly 
divaricate pedicels and close sharp (i. 
History oF Aster macrophyllus. Being closely entangled in the 
past with A. divaricatus, and descending to us in lines parallel to 
it always, the outlines of their common annals are already given 
in tracing general Biotian history ; page 62+. In those pages 
I have mentioned the first European botanical traveller to notice 
A, —— as probably Sagard in 1624-6, the first collector 
kno it abroad as Sarrazin, before 1720, the first to 
eka it as "Vaillant, writing 1720, the first known to cultivate 
it as Philip Miller in or before 1739, the first to give it proper 
description as Nees in 1832. It remains to formulate here the 
successive steps of development of its description. 
Appearing first in print as a polynomial, the Aster Canadensis, 
