314 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
A. Herveyi Gray. di ders of woods, Blue Mountain Lake [Adirondacks], and 
Voorheesville [Albany Co. |, August and Septemb 
anual this is indicated as an NL species," approaching 4. macro- 
phyllus. Itis indeed liable to be mistaken for that species at least in some of its forms, 
if I rightly understand it. In the N. Y. specimens, the branchlets and peduncles a1 are 
anand and the involucral scales are glandular and the rays are violet as 
A. Herveyi, though in some instances the color is pale violet. On the other hand, iba 
leaves are not always aa, but are sometimes ovate and distinctly serrate. 
they should be understood to be in 4. Hervey’, and also roughened]. They are also 
rough and rather thick as in 4. AEN in But this species [A. macrophyllus] as 
described in the N. Y. St. Flora, has a reddish-tawny pappus while in our violet-rayed 
specimens the pappus is white or whitish [because young], which is an additional 
reason for separating them from 4. macrophyllus if this should prove to be a reliable 
character. It seems best, therefore, to consider them as a variety of 4. Herveyi, and 
to indicate their character thus 
. Herveyi Gray, var. intermedia Peck. Branchlets and peduncles glandular-hairy ; 
heads large; rays violet; involucral scales glandular, erect, all or all except the longer 
and more pointed inner ones, green or with green Sus; pappus white or whitish; leaves 
rather thick and ek ovate or lanceolate, the lower on naked petioles and more or 
less cordate, the upper sessile, the radical leaves nine broadly ovate-cordate, rough, 
on long naked petioles. Apparently intermediate between typical 4. Herveyi and 
[white] 4. macrophyllus. With this it has probably been confused, but from it it may 
be separated by the larger heads, color of the rays and pappus and glandular peduncles. 
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All the foregoing derived its pertinence from the fact that the 
*' lilacine " A. macrophyllus of early writers had fallen into obscur- 
ity and the whiter plants they had left associated with it had en- 
grossed attention. Now that the wholly dissimilar white plants 
have been removed, forming the Curvescentes, the reason for Prof. 
Peck's var. intermedia disappears, and on conference later he 
agreed with the author that this variety is a synonym for typical 
A. mac: pA 
Vari nts of A. macrophyllus. 
Sp rout-forms tend to develop flowers rather than foliage ; 
leaves more uniform, smaller, nearly alike in size, 2 x 1 in., sessile 
by a broad subcontracted base ; or a few lower ones have a wing- 
base or short narrow petiole ; the leaves being mainly of the form 
which is typical of the axiles of the normal plant. In sprouts 2 ft. 
high, about 12 such leaves may be produced below the inflorescence, 
and are continued as axiles and rameals with little change except 
reduction in size and development of broader base and more ten- 
dency to conduplication ; as would be expected from rameals on 
the normal plant. Heads not eus 20 or less, ede gutes all 
much larger than in the type, and 1 1$ in. high instead of $, 1 34 in. 
broad instead of 1 in. Compared with branch-forms, the lower 
leaves are apt to be broader, nd to oblong-lanceolate, all 
sharp-serrate or serrulate. Common; examples include: 
