336 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
1902, 1904; also coll. there by Walter Deane, Au. 7, '85, hb. Deane; Franconia 
Notch, near Flume, Au., ’99, Au., 1900. North Woodstock, near the. Pemigewasset 
R., and Woodstock, Au., 1900. 
60. Aster Alleghaniensis sp. nov. 
Low strict plants with small thick rugulose leaves, with broad 
base and ovate outline, few cordated, many erect and investing the 
stem ; and with narrow densely branched lavender and pink inflor- 
escence. 
Name from the mountains on which specimens grew in Bedford Co., Pa. 
Fic. 81, plant from L. George, N. Y., Au. 31, 1900, S. H. Burnham in hb. 
JN. Y. Bot. Gar. 
Stem strong, 1 to 1% ft., smooth, sti pale reddish-brown 
with much purple-red like 
thak rain n of A. puni- 
ee reduced to 114 X I 
in. wer leaves ovate with 
dci cd base, ser- 
rate to dentate, sometimes 
with a strap-wing petiole, 2 
in. long and ¥ in. broad. 
Upper caulines lanceolate 
with sessile tapered base, 
sharp-serrulate, nearly erect. 
Leaves thick, finely rough- 
ened. Teeth chiefly short- 
curvescent. 
trigose hair on the veins 
inflorescence-branches and 
the medial part of the bracts. 
Strigose  ciliation occurs 
along the slender t occasionally on the stem and slightly on 
the lower outer bra 
Much x ad (like that of A. puniceus) occurs on the full- 
bU 2 of 
ies Alleghaniensis > 
Fic. 81 
