312 DESCRIPTION OF AsTERS ; MACROPHYLLI 
In shady woods about rocks ; Canada to un Perennis. Sept.-Nov. [mis- 
led in dates by confusing his own notes?] v. v. : v. s. in Herb. Banks et Lambert. A 
foot or two high ; flowers above the middle size, rays w etin and sometimes blue. 
Barton, Compendium Fl. Phila. 2: 115 (1818), gave the first 
description in English, as follows : 
17. A. macrophyllus. Leaves ovate, petiolate, serrate, rough; upper ones ovate, 
cordate [a mistake], sessile, lower ones cordate, petiolate ; petioles submarginate ; stem 
branched, diffuse; calices cylindric, narrowly imbricated; scales oblong, acute. — 
Willd. and Pursh. 
Large-leaved Aster, about 12 or 15 in. high. Flowers bluish [this suggests that 
his plants were of 4. guiescens], in the shady woods above the falls of Schuylkill, west 
side, abundant. Perennial, September. 
NUTTALL, Genera, 1818, simply enumerates this species. 
Torrey, “Cat. of Plants” for N. Y. City, 66 (1819) lists it as 
"ie, macrophyllus, Ait. Rocky shady woods, Bloomingdale 
[site long since destroyed by building]. Aug., white or pale-blue." 
BicEtow, Fl. Bost., ed. 2, 314 (1824), adds A. macrophyllus to 
the species he had described in the first edition, translates Willde- 
now’s character, and adds 
The root-leaves are uncommonly large, heart-shaped, serrate and acute, rather 
smooth. Stem furrowed, scarcely rough. Upper leaves sessile, ovate, a little hearted 
at base ird To clasping the stem]. Scales of the PE closely appressed. 
Ray pale. blue s. — September. — Perennial. [Perhaps Bigelow’s specimens 
were of 4. aa typical 4. macrophyllus plants would not have been ** rather 
smooth,’’ nor ‘scarcely rough,’’ nor flowering in ** September."'] 
Torrey, Compendium, 299 (1826), included 4. macroph nyllus, 
remarking of it, “ white or pale blue ; scales oblong, acute. 
TonREY AND Gray, Fl. N. Am., 2: 105 (May, 1841); as fol- 
lows, excluding synonyms: 
A. macrophyllus (Linn.); stem stout, somewhat striate-angled, roughish-pubes- 
cent above, the corymbose branchés also rigid; leaves thickish, scabrous, closely ser- 
rate, somewhat acuminate; the radical and lower ones sdb ica ener on slender 
petioles; the upper sessile or on margined petioles; h bs; involucre 
iae d the length of the disk; the exterior scales Heid, oloni i or BiTA ; rays 
(white or purplish) 1 
. stem and leaves "ie smooth and glabrous; heads usually smaller. — Aster 
Seireberi Nees, synops. p. 16; Spreng. syst. 3. p. 535. Eurybia Schreberi, Nees! 
Ast. p. 138. Biotia Schreberi, DC. / Z. c. (Varies, with the heads somewhat glomer- 
ate on short pedicels, and the rays shorter ; eA an accidental state. Eurybia 
glomerata, Bernh. in Nees, Ast. 1. c erata DC./ Lc 
y. exterior scales of the involucre botdi, ovate or roundish-oval; otherwise as 
in a. pe 55%] 
oodlands, Canada! (from the Saskatchewan!) and Northern States! Aug.- 
Finem 114-3 feet high, usually broadly corymbose ; the upper portion, as well 
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