342 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
Inflorescence about 6 in. across, a compact dome, with a few 
remoter shorter lower branches added. Heads coarse and large. 
Bracts with thin pale scarious margins and thick green back 
enlarged into a long curved-bordered green tip, nearly all alike. 
Rays pale lavender, linear-oblong. Pappus soon deeply fer- 
ruginous, very long and full. 
Resembles A. roscidus in broad outlines and wide diffusion of 
glands; but retains a dense inflorescence, lacks pendent .leaf- 
bases, has a different sinus and much thinner, more dentate, more 
hairy leaves, the radicals of dissimilar more orbicular outline. 
Examples include : 
N. Y. vic., £. P. Bicknell. 
Ohio, Ailbuck, Se. 14, '95, W. A. Kellerman, in hb. Ohio St. Univ., —a 
smoother sprout-plant but seemingly referable only here 
4. ASTER ROSCIDUS Burgess. 
Stout, odorous plants, densely viscid-glandular all over when 
young, with firm, thick, broad leaves, large and heavy dark-green 
