ASTER MACROPHYLLUS VELUTINUS 323 
Kate Furbish in Gray hb.; Ft. Fairfield, near mouth of Aroostook R., on gravelly 
wooded a , 9e. 9, '96, M. L. Fernald in aii ray hb. 
| Mt. Adams, Se. 24, 78, E. G. Knight in hb. N. Y. Bot. Gar 
* , Adirondacks, iege Mi., at 2,400 ft., Se. 9, '94, Britton ii in hb, 
Colu.; North Elba on Ausable H. Pech, Au, OF pe '98, in NW. Y. State hb. 
Alder L., Au. 15, ' 91, Rusby in in; McKeever, on Beaver R., Au. 28, ?97, and 
Photius. Au. 31, 97, Bz, in hb 
ec Mcd L., Au. 25, '84; flowers deep blue, pap- 
pus not tawny; 4. macrophyllus var." ; T. C. Porter in hb. P.; in '97 its pappus had 
become Loris d SF, ; but some "e were still deep 
W. Va., Augusta Co., Mt. Rogers, 2,000 to 4,473 ft. Au. 9, !93, Heller in 
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55d. ASTER MACROPHYLLUS PINGUIFOLIUS Burgess 
Glabrate plants with large broad subsucculent or greasy leaves, 
wide-branched inflorescence and pale-lavender or whitish rays. 
Name, L., from the frequent git leaf surface. 
Fic. 75, 1, 2, 3, from plant in Gray herbarium, derived from the Paris 
garden, caivated as 4. latifolius in d fide its label in Hb. Gay; bought in 1870 
by Hooker and later obtained by Dr. Asa Gray. Reduced to}; I rue 2, n aum 
xi apa 2 an inflorescence. Smooth fleshy blistered went glands abundan 
G. 75, 4, from the specimen still MALA in Hb. Mus. dps, rein labelled 
Biotia boue and said to date ** from Michaux ” ; reduced to 4; from drawings by 
Miss Ida L. Miner, Paris, 1900, by permission of the late Mons, Francke 
Fic. 75, a, 4, c, native plant similar to m from Bear L., re 
Co, N. Y, ak reduced to 4^; nat. size; in hb. 
A. la atifolius Desf., Cat. Hort. Par., ed. 3, Bea 1829. 
Bictia latifolia DC., Prodr. 5: 264. 1836, with first description : 
** Caule glaberrimo apice corymboso, foliis m radicalibus caulinisque infer. 
lolatis alato sedla sessilibusve, omnibus serratis acuminatis, 
REN dI MET invol. squamis arcté imbricatis CORR UNE LE etm ligulis 
ngatis, In Amer. bor. ( Desf.!) ad PR Alleghanys (Raf.!) et circa Bos- 
tiem (Lindl.! ! herb. ). Aster latifolius Desf.! cat. h. par. p. 176. Aster marii 
Raf.! ! in litt. Eurybia macrophylla y Nees » 140? forté suad. Lindley B. 
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Not 4. latifolius Mill. Gard. , ed. 8 (1768). 
A opun pinguifolius Sanip in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 360 (1898), with 
descript 
“Stems stout, leafy, glabrous, about 2 ft. high; basal and 
lower leaves large, forming extensive patches, deep green above, 
very pale beneath, many of them appearing greasy, some rough- 
ening in drying; petioles fleshy, sometimes 9 in. long ; inflores- 
cence broad, flat-topped; heads large; rays lavender to almost 
De: only the kc leaves sessile. Borders of woods, Conn. 
dL. I. to Minn 
