308 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
WirLbpENow, Sp. p/, 3°: 2037. 1804 [see p. 281]; what 
Willdenow says himself is as follows : 
. foliis ovatis petiolatis serratis, summis ovato-cordatis sessilibus, inferioribus 
cordatis petiolatis, petiolis submarginatis, caule ramoso diffuso, calycibus cylindricis, 
arcte imbricatis, W. 
a. A. corollae radio caeruleo, W. [W. next citing Linnaeus’ 4. macrophyl- 
lus and Vaillant’s A. Canadensis, en . as synonyms] [= 4. ate ra Se 
. A. corollae radio albo, W. [= A. Schreberi Nee 
V sint foliis radicalibus ovato- dien et oblongo- siis — radio caeruleo et 
plantis radio caeruleo instructis, corollae radii sunt oblongae longitudine 
ani MNA squamis ovatae acutiusculae; in plantis radio albo, corollae radii 
lineares calyce longiores, calycis squamae oblongae obtusae, W 
The Willdenovian herbarium still preserves 7 sheets labelled 
A. macrophyllus, as kindly emi for me by Dr. L. jo Bigi 
wood, of these nos. 3, 4, 6, may be 4. macrophyllus L., PT 
5, A. tostemma, and no. 1, A. pear iformis ; fide ves dest and 
drawings by L M. U. 
ARTYN, in his edition of Miller's Gardener s Dict. (1807), quot- 
ing A. macrophyllus as described by Linnæus, adds as its English 
name, ‘‘ Broad-leaved Blue-starwort," using “ blue ” for lavender, 
and showing that the plant then cultivated at Kew of which he 
s white variety but the var. «. The 
Kew plant aside from the Linnaean herbarium, was doubtless the 
best representative of what Linnaeus’ original A. macrophyllus had 
been. 
Martyn refers to L’Heritier, SZirpes nov. 2: t. 66 (1784-5), as 
a figure of A. macrophyllus ; but the figure proves to be an Kea. 
SCHULTES, Observationes Botanicae in Linnei Species plantarum 
ex editione C. L. Willdenow ; 178 (1809). 
Def. Ait. Kew. optima. Folia me sed in illo qui saii albis est, non 
trinervia, [If the plant Schultes had was 4, Schreberi, it may have failed to show 
radical leaves; otherwise his plant must ee ber en some non-trinervate re linear- 
rayed white relative of 4. Schreberi: like A. curvescens while young and unflattened. } 
Mira foliorum subcarnosorum vix describenda varietas. Petala linearia acuta. [The 
second sentence refers apparently to a plant of 4. macrophyllus pinguifolius ; and per- 
haps all three clauses do. 
Nees, Synopsis Asterum (1818), though with but brief char- 
acters, first separated the white component of the A. macrophyllus 
of Willdenow, naming it A. Schreberi. 
Cassini in 1825 wage te E as Eurybia macrophylla, 
in Dict. des Sciences nat., 487; having published his genus 
Eurybia (= broad- ataie in Sa Bull. philom. 166, and 
again, Dect. des Sciences nat. 16: 486 
