ASTER UNIFORMIS 335 
Middle caulines slowly tapering into a longer acumination, 
often very elegantly falcate, with sweeping brace-base sinus. 
Upper caulines resembling those of A. curvescens, being elliptic- 
ovate, incurved-falcate-acuminate, abruptly tapered into a broad- 
wing petiole, finally elliptic-oblong with short cuneate-wing petiole. 
Axiles few and inconspicuous, lanceolate, usually still petioled. 
Petioles longer than the leaf, concavo-convex in section, set 
along the edge with bayonet-like bent hairs, and lined with short- 
stalked, dark-purple, minute, capitate glands with pale stalks. 
Veins pale-green beneath, showing as narrow purple impressed 
lines above. . 
Inflorescence convex, about 5 in. broad, in its prime about Au. 
15, and then exhaling a delicate and delicious fragrance sometimes 
suggesting that of Linnaea rather than of an aster. The disk- 
flowers exhale the different fragrance of bee-bread, as is common 
among the Compositae. 
Bracts of 3—4 rows, uniform in shape, lightly ciliate with white 
hairs, obtusish, oblong-triangular or oblong with the sides slanted 
at the top, quite thin, green, downy and glandular all over; the 
inner with broad white scarious margins and narrow green median 
band, the inmost similar with addition of dark purple along the 
delicate white border. Involucre cylindrical. 
Rays a beautiful low-violet, delicate, narrowly linear, broader 
forward and minutely 3-toothed, about 13, sometimes only 9, soon 
fading white. The rays open slowly, long remaining slightly 
channelled; they wilt quickly, hanging in limp curves. 
Disks turn dull reddish-brown. Heads Z4 in. high. 
Pedicels long, slender, terete, green or purpled, slightly en- 
larged upward, given off at a high angle. 
Glandular hairs everywhere developed, over leaves beneath, 
and over the stem half way or wholly to the ground. They are 
short pale stubs, distinct below, but on the pedicels becoming very 
long, still pale, with the pale or whitish glands very slightly broader 
than the stalk 
Among glandular species this is a counterpart in superficial 
resemblance, to A. curvescens among the non-glandular. 
Habitat, borders of woods, rivers and roadsides in the White 
Mtns. to 2,000 ft ; and northward. 
Examples : 
Me., Gilead, Au., 1904, Bu.; Mattawamkeag R., Penobscot Co., Au. 23,797; 
JM. L. Fernald in hb. 
N. H., Randolph, near Ravine House, Au. 12, 1902, 1904. Gorham, Au. 
10, 1902, at the Androscoggin river-edge. Peabody R. valley and up Mt. Washington 
from the Glen along the road for the first mile, Au., 1902, 1904. Shelburne, Au., 
