334 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS ; MACROPHYLLI 
scarious-margined, white and green with purple edge, the rays 
lavender. 
Name, L., from the persistence of the leaf-type far up the stem. 
Fic. 80, plant from Randolph, N. H., Au. 12, 1902; 6, typical leaf; c, a 
modification of 4; d, radicals. 
Plants little inclined to form large or sterile colonies, growing 
in small loose full-flowered masses in half-sun. Stems chiefly 
green, terete, glabrate or downy, 2 ft. high or less. General 
Z Aster unifoomis M f | 
Fic. 8o. 
color a pale bright green. Texture thin and firm, soon limp on 
gathering, drying rough. Teeth of moderate size, acuminate, 
often falcately so. 
Leaf-type cordate to orbicular-deltiform, with long and usually 
falcated acumination, with broad open sinus, upcurved slender veins, 
serrate or curvescent teeth, and long petioles., 
Radicals less acuminate, about 3, often 4 x 3 in., with upright 
slender petiole of 6-7 in.; their sinus rather deep. 
