338 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
of them, ascending or erect, soon subsessile. All leaves pale be- 
neath, without obvious hair. 
General foliage-color brownish-green, commonly profusely 
brown-maculate with circular fungus-spots, much more so than 
WRN SE. 
the 
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Torn a 1 Aster sabulosus 
Fic. 82. 
other allied species growing with it, in this and in its pale under- 
surfaces resembling d. e/acagnius. 
Inflorescence a shallow corymb, 3 or sometimes 4 in. across, 
forming a single irregular compact top or sometimes slightly 
separated and convex. 
Bracts triform, subacute, a little narrower than in A. macro- 
phyllus, quite green-tipped, the middle and inner broadly scarious- 
margined, the scarious portion pale or whitish with reddened edge. 
Heads 4$, in. high, of which the involucre is two-thirds. 
Rays lavender, of short duration. 
Glands chiefly found on upper half of stem ; resembling those 
of A. macrophyllus. 
