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ASTER FEROX 349 
, L., from the savage bristling age of the sharp cut leaves, 
oh 5. plant from Hastings, N. Y. ; Se. 5,'98, in hb. Zu coll. E... 
Bicknell. 
Stem 2% ft. high or less, greenish, terete, retaining, usuall 
throughout, a minute roughness of glandular stubs and remnants 
of strigose hair. 
Leaves rough above, villous on veins beneath, with scattered 
strigose hair elsewhere, with veins dark or brownish.  Leaf-form 
AN Aster ferox 
Fic. 87. 
cordate-ovate, briefly but sharply incurved-acuminate, with deep 
sinus, broad or seeming narrow by overlapping assurgent lobes. 
Leaf-texture thin, firm, roughened minutely but decidedly. 
Radicals 2, nearly alike, very large, two pairs of such sometimes 
reaching 8 x 4 in. on one branching rootstock, highly asymmetrical 
or falcate, their huge teeth still 1 in. long and of 3$ in. projection 
when dry, shorter teeth of buzz-saw type crowding the unequal 
lobes, low curvescent teeth lining the acumination. —Petioles 
equalling the leaves, unusually slender. 
