ASTER MACROPHYLLUS Sil 
fere jure, referri possent, [At least 3 respects, however, may be noted in which 
Linnaeus’ description applies better to Nees’ 4. macrophyllus than to his A. Schreberi ; 
Ist, the ovate sessile serrate caulines; 2d, saepe trifidi, said of the trifurcate peduncles ; 
3d, the comparison to Petasites is suggested by the very aspect of 4. macrophyllus but 
by A. Schreberi only after scrutiny.} Aster divaricatus Lin. Eurybiae macrophyllae, 
absque foliis radicalibus infimisque consideratae, praebet LC ; synonyma autem 
eidem adscripta, imm ad Doellingeriam humilem pertinen 
Adnot. 2. Ante draginta annos hanc speciem in do botanico Jenensi 
Asteris divaricati sub nomine iind vidi et exemplum ibidem lectum apud me servo. 
Folia radicalia, solo sicciore per aestatem pereuntia, humiliorem tum relinquunt caulem 
pauciflorum, corymbo divaricato you omnibus ovatis Linneanis characteribus il 
verbum respondentem. [So Nees deemed his specimen of the 4. divaricatus of Hort. 
Jena of about 1792, to be a depauperate 4. macrophyllus without radicals. Reading 
this may have helped to cause DeCandolle in 1836 to add his videt divaricata 
(infra) to the species macrophyllus. ] 
DECANDOLLE, Prodromus, 5: 265 (1836), gave the following 
highly generalized description of Aster macrophyllus : 
Biotia arte caule plùs minis hirto apice patulo-corymboso, foliis radi- 
calibus petiolatis co ore A caulinis alato-petiolatis sessilibusve ovatis, omnibus su 
Scabris serratis. acuminatis, capitulis pedicellatis, invol. squamis arct wear uisa 
sceau Pe [only the inner ones are typically "rss ligulis elongatis. 
Pere In Amer. bor. umbrosis rupestribus à Canadá a Virginiam.— Ast. sacr 
Mer Lim. ve 1232. Michx. fl. bor. am. 114.  Euryóia macrophylla Cass. dict. 37. 
P- 487. ast. 140. n ! hort. Par. ed. 3. p. 176. A. cordifolius hort. plur, — 
Folia dats a cuta.—(v. s.) E 
B divaricata, foliis ii Poit rotundatis. Perennis, in Amer. bor. (Linn.). 4s. 
divaricatus Linn. sp. 122 [So far this var. 8 represents Linnaeus’ description of 
A. divaricatus ; the identity of which with the 4. mace of Aiton was unsuspected 
by DeCandolle.] 4st. macrophyllus carneus hort. angl. ex herb. Linn. obs. Lindl. 
in adn. mss, [Perhaps this carneus of which Lindley wrote was simply a designation 
for the typical 4. macrophyllus of Nees as distinguished from the whitish-flowered 
Schreberan plants often confounded with it.] 
— Since 1836, and for some years before, the additions to de- 
are of American origin. Earlier writers on American plants had 
not noticed it, except that Forster catalogued it in 1771, and 
Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 114 (1803), described it as 
A. macrophyllus L. Aster universe pubescens: foliis radicalibus imisque am- 
plissime cordatis, petiolatis; omnibus arguto serratis asperis : corymbo floribus majus- 
culis. ab. in Canada. 
MUHLENBERG, Vor am Pl. Am. Sept., 73 (1813; but written 
1809) listed it as “A. macrophyllus, alb. caer., perennis, "- the 
* large-leaved " Nass flowering in Pennsylvania in “ July.’ 
Punsu, Fl. Am. Sept., 2: 552 (1814), repeating Willdenow's 
description, added 
