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55b. ASTER MACROPHYLLUS APRICENSIS Burgess 
Glabrate profusely-branched sprawling plants of sunny open- 
ings, with rough leaves, little or no cordation and long broad 
strap-like wings. 
Name from L. apricum, a sunny opening. 
Fic. 72, plant from near Cattaraugus Cr., N. Y., Au. 20, 96, in hb. Bu. 
showing a stem with a few of its long branches. 
A. macrophvllus apricensis Burgess in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 360. 1898, 
with original description : 
** Glabrate, branched from near the base, the branches numer- 
ous, often 18 in. high ; heads small, numerous ; rays short, pink- 
ish lavender ; leaves broad, 
oval to ovate, the teeth and 
sinus little developed ; peti- 
oles often expanded into a 
long wing, sometimes 3 in. 
long and ¥ in. wide; upper- 
most leaves short-oblong 
with a narrowed sessile 
base. In clearings and 
open gravelly or sandy 
places, N. Y. and Pa." 
Stem and branches ro- 
bust, pale, green or pur- 
plish, smooth to eye and 
touch, apt to become de- 
pressed, with about 5 broad 
ridges below, becoming 
multisulcate upward. Very 
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ground into several or 
many long diverging bran- 
ches, which are often 15-18 
in. long and bear each an c 
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Aster macrophyllus apricensis SS Lo 
Fic. 72. 
Leaf-type broad, ovate, i 
with little development of teeth or cordation. Axiles often the 
predominant leaves, large, oval or ovate, usually with rounded 
base and long strap-like amplexicaul petiole. Rameals numerous, 
sessile, somewhat oblong, often 2 x 1 in., sharply set, especially 
