328 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
Name, L., from its tall robust attitude. 
Fic. 76, a, plant from Niagara gorge, Au. 27, '96, in hb. Bu.; 4, charac 
teristic leaf-form ; c, leaf of its rumicial form of Se. 9, ’99. 
Fic. 76, i ee ded of the common form per from Niagara gorge ; plant 
from Cattaraugus Cr., N. Y., A uh Icoo, in hb. Z 
urybia uL á N ees 
macrophyllus excelsior are in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 360 (1898), 
with original description 
“Stem robust, glabrous, often 4 ft. tall, purple or glaucous ; 
leaves mostly very smooth, pale, numerous, narrower, cordate, 
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Fic. 76. 
oblong to ovate-lanceolate, chiefly sessile ; rays deep lilac to vio- 
let. Along paths and borders of rocky woods, Ontario and W. 
N. Y. to Mich." 
Stem terete, glabrous and glaucous, stout but not rigid and, 
therefore, often decumbent, sometimes 41% ft. high. Radicals on 
long petioles, borne high upward, not forming flat patches; triangu- 
lar-ovate or xs dm with sudden short acumination, crenate- 
