ASTER MACROPHYLLUS 307 
etc., of Vaillant in 1720,—who had his specimen from Sarrazin,— 
it seems next to have been termed A. Acadiensis by Jussieu under 
whom it was so cultivated in the Paris garden, fide Lamarck’s 
citation in 1783. Meanwhile its first binomial description had ap- 
peared at the hands of Linnaeus, 1763, and the successive in- 
crease of definiteness up to the full description of Nees in 1832 will 
be indicated by quotation ; 
LINNAEUS, Sf. f/., ed. 2. 2: 1232. 1763. 
A.] macrophyllus. 34. Aster foliis serratis; radicalibus trinervatis cor- 
datis maximis, caulinis ovatis sessilibu 
ster canadensis, foliis imis px cordatis serratis, Vai. act. 583. 
Habitat in America septentriona QM 
Folia Radicalia magna, boum cordata, serrata, trinervata ut in Fetasi- 
tide. Ramea parva, ovata, sessilia, serrata. Pedunculi ad apicem conferti, sepe trifidi. 
[This description remained unchanged as far as 1784, in the 
ed. 14 of the Systema vegetabilium. | 
Lamarck, Lucyc. meth., 1: 307. 1783. 
2 à grandes feuilles. 
A. foliis radicalibus petiolatis, cordatis, serratis; caulinis ovatis sessilibus ; 
caule Korean N [obis]. 
cadiensis, coronae solis folio. Æ. A. 
"i Canadensis, foliis imis amplioribus cordatis serratis. Vail. Act. 583. 
Lamarck, after his character and two synonyms as quoted 
above, added, in French, the following description : 
‘Its stem is about 2 ft. high, terete, pubescent, sometimes very 
smooth [such cases were by Nees deemed to be his A. Schreberi p, 
and were probably later included in part in De Candolle's B. /azi- 
folia] and furnished on its upper part with branches disposed in a 
corymb. Its radical leaves and those at the base of the stem are 
petioled, decidedly large, cordiform, pointed, toothed, hairy under- 
neath ; and are not only 3-nerved as says Linnaeus, but are furnished 
with many oblique nerves which proceed from each side of the 
midrib. [But Linnaeus knew this; his ''trinervata" meant, 
having among its strong pinnate veins, two basal ones so much 
stronger than the rest as to give, with the midrib, a 3-nerved effect 
to the sinus.] Other leaves of the stem are oval- lanceolate, and 
sessile or almost amplexicaul. The flowers are terminal, white or 
a very pale violet, their involucre imbricated and close-ranked ; 
and are in a corymb.—This plant is native of North America and 
is cultivated in the Jardin du Roi. Perennial, v. v.' 
Ariton, Hort. Kew., 3: 207. 1789. 
A. foliis serratis oblongis, supremis ovatis sessilibus, caulinis cordatis petio- 
latis, petiolis superioribus alatis. 
