a bos RRS: 
ASTER MACROPHYLLUS 315 
Ct., Meriden Hills, Se. 28,'58, D. C. Eaton in " Mo. Bot. Gar. 
N. Y., Plattsburg, L. Champlain shore, Au. 31, ’97. 
55° Branch-forms ; where the branches are excessively devel- 
oped from lower axils to replace a weak or deficient axis. Such 
branches usually show the rameal type of leaf, greatly enlarged, 
preceded by several small oblong-spatulate subentire leaves, 2 in. 
by 24 in., or less, somewhat resembling Erigeron annuus; fol- 
lowed by larger more normal oblong-acuminate leaves, 5 x 174 
W, or more often 3 x I. 
55! Arrest-form, with little leaves. The 2 or 3 medium-sized 
basal leaves are followed abruptly by an arrest of leaf-producing 
vigor, the remaining nodes bearing a series of much smaller leaves, 
all much alike in size though differing in shape, petiole and base. 
uch plants may resemble A. biformis or arrested states of A. 
multiformis and other species; but are of the thick texture of A 
macrophyllus, and often occur in patches of normal macrophyllus 
plants. They are unlike the similar arrest-forms of other species 
in their radicals or their strigose hair, roughness, glands, or inflor- 
escence. 
ry common, and seen in plants of early European cultivation, as of hb. Bern- 
hardi, p of hort. Salzwedel in Frankfort, 1825 ; see fig. 71. 
55° Other arrest forms ; with certain middle nodes of the stem 
concentrated ; occasional. 
55° With axiles and rameals minute or absent ; occasional. 
55° /nutercalary form. With one or two small middle caulines 
intercalated between ordinarily large leaves, occasionally; L. 
Champlain; L. Erie; hort. Erfurt in hb. Bernhardi ; etc 
55° Eccentric forms or sports; with gibbous or simular leaves 
ommige the normal ones; W. N. Y. 
55° Trapezoidal middle caulines occurring ; W. N. Y. 
55" Glabrate form ; mostly typical, with coarse flabby leaves, 
but with persistently smooth stem, minutely glandular above; 
roughness of leaves moderate; teeth more serrulate ; middle 
bracts acuter. Transitional from A. M hyllus L. to the next 
form. Castine, Me.; L. Erie, very commo 
959! Kid- finish lone mie ee do to Pa m. pinguifolius in its 
smoother thinner firm leaves, of the texture of undressed kid when 
growing, but not greasy like pinguifolius ; the same leaves becom- 
ing roughish usually on dryin 
Unlike A. multiformis in its greater leaf-breadth, and usually 
a taller stronger plant, often 214 ft., but like it in dark-green leaves 
and violet rays. 
N. Y. vic., Yonkers, Palmer Av., Se. 25, 96, Se. 13, '97, Au. and Se., '98, 
"99, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 
