354 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
Name, L. — bosom-nourished, from its flourishing so remarkably when spring- 
ing from the decay of a log or stum 
Fic. 89, a plant from Silver Cr., N. Y., Au. 21, '97, in hb. Bu.; 6, its char- 
acteristic lower leaves; d, its radicals; e, its biculminate form, f, its fedian form. 
Stem assurgent, nearly straight, often leaning forward out of 
thickets, often 4 ft. high. 
ower leaves large, orbicular and about 6 x 6 in., or orbicu- 
lar-ovate and 6 x 5 in., their slender petioles much shorter, their 
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a 2% Aster gremialis CAI 
Fic. 89. 
teeth large, sharp, of double-serrate or of aquiline-acuminate type 
(but occasionally inconspicuous); large examples 14 to 24 in. long. 
About 5 such radicals and about 4 such lower caulines are com- 
mon. Their sinus is rectangular or deeply polygonal, their apex 
suddenly acuminate and entire. 
Middle caulines ovate-acuminate, rapidly reduced from 6 x 4 
to 4 x 2 inches, one or two with brace-base, others with rounded- 
base and taper-wing, becoming low-serrulate with forward-crouched 
t teeth. : 
