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ASTER QUADRATUS 341 
part of which varies from cream to bluish-purple, the outer part 
pale or colorless; making three colored stripes Wa side of the 
narrow brown midrib, all changing to crimson at the t 
- Y., Adirondacks, Big Knob, at 1950 ft., Au. 29, 1900, and Chilton L., 
Au. 28, Sh Dr. N. N. L. Britton in hb. N. Y. Bot. Gar.,—** well distributed in the 
Mt. Marcy region in upper mountain clearings.’’ 
** Plants tall, with profuse glands throughout, and chief bracts 
lingual with rounded Men Species 63, 64. 
63. Aster densatus sp. nov. 
Rough hairy plants with thin but firm texture, orbicular leaf- 
type large and slowly diminished, coarse-dentate margins, dense 
rounded-convex inflorescence, rounded scarious-edged bracts and 
long curve-bordered green-tips. - 
Name, L., from the dense pee: 
Fic. 84, yin from N. Y. vic.,in hb. Bu., E. P. Bicknell coll.; $, charac- 
teristic leaf; æd and e, radical groups. 
A. macrophyllus y, T. & G., Fl. N. Am., 2: 184, may be founded on this ; its 
only Cep is that of eoi bracts. 
Stem 3 ft. or less, finely roughened with remnants = close hair 
when mature, stout, erect and terete, greenish or brownish. 
Leaf-type cordate-orbicular passing into broad comes allio 
Sinus large, deep and sécuriform, in radicals sometimes 2 in. 
across and 1 in. deep ; or overlapped and polygonal, with propor- 
tions reversed, 1 in. broad and 2 in. deep. Teeth of dentate type, 
large and projecting, the longer ones becoming curvescent with 
long outward-directed aculeus, the shorter ones toward the leaf- 
base often merely aquiline, or simply dentate or serrate, those 
toward the apex low-serrate, on upper leaves sharp-serrulate. 
Color dull apple-green, pale or rusty beneath. Veins close, 
each straight-out and finally upcurved, projecting strongly beneath 
and conspicuously brown and strigose. Petioles of radicals about 
as long as the leaf, of the chief caulines about half their leaf-length 
and all slender, of the upper caulines reduced to short broad 
cuneate wings. 
Radicals about 2,6 x 6 in. or more. Lower caulines remot- 
ish, abruptly short-acuminate. Upper caulines ovate-triangular 
with subcordate or finally truncate base, still short-petioled. 
Axiles sessile, triangular-lanceolate, soon inconspicuous. Ra- 
meals short-triangular-ovate, acuminate, squarrose, resembling 
those of A. triangularis. 
