ASTER ROSCIDUS 345 
brownish and slightly pubescent beneath, apiculate with an abrupt 
broad short obtuse projection, nearly orbicular otherwise, with 
rounded base and cuneate-wing petiole. Such leaf-form is best 
developed through the middle caulines. Lower caulines 34 x 3 
in., with full deep sinus and narrow petiole almost as long as the 
leaf. Upper caulines oval-acute with broad-wing base. Avxiles 
numerous and longer, elliptic-oblong, sessile, soon oblong-acute 
with truncate subamplexicaul base. Rameals progressively like 
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each axile type, but much reduced, less than half the axile length 
from the first, often in pairs, often 4 pairs on the middle and upper 
part of a branch before the inflorescence begins. These or the 
smaller similar ramulars sometimes all replaced by subcircular, 
entire shorter leaves, like those of the Mitchellian form of 4. 
divaricatus L. or like those of Mitchella repens. ; 
Leaf-texture soft till after maturity, somewhat resembling felt, 
the radicals finally leathery and rough. Middle and upper leaves 
