356 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
` Valerianella. With the type; and with dwarf, ae and 
biacuminate-leaved forms of the type. See Fig. 89, 
Tt Violet v un white of the rays usually less pro- 
nounced. Sp. 68, 69. : 
68. ASTER NoBiLIS Burgess. 
Tall, robust, spreading plants with large cabbage-like sub- 
villous radicals, cordate-ovate leaf-form, sharp or narrow sinus, 
crenate or subentire margins below, sharp-serrate above, lance- 
oblong broad-based axiles, deep high-angle branching, and pro- 
liferous inflorescence, long continuing to develop sessile closely- 
lateral buds, all finally divergent and long-pedicelled. 
Name, L., from the stately aspect. 
Fic. go, plant from Silver Cr., N. Y., 15, '96, in hb. Bu. ; 4, its basal 
leaf ( DERC large), c, its radicals, d, a irate but frequent E T 
A. nobilis Burgess in Br. and Br. Ill. FI. 3: 361. 1898, with Fig. 3748, 
and original description : 
** Tall, minutely glandular above, stem shining, bright green, 
4 to 5 ft. high. Leaves thin but firm, smooth in growth, 
roughened in drying, minutely puberulent beneath, dark green ; 
basal and lower leaves large, the blade often 9 in. lon by 6 in. 
wide, about as long as the stout petiole, sharply toothed, the sinus 
deep, broad, or the lobes overlapping. Stem-leaves similar, the 
upper oblong-lanceolate, sessile, inflorescence irregularly cymose- 
paniculate, with small subulate recurved leaves. Bracts long, acute, 
green. Heads 6 lines high or less; rays 13-15, violet-blue 
or [more often] pale violet; disk-flowers not numerous, their 
corollas funnelform with a long capillary tube. — In leaf-mold, L. 
Champlain to L. Erie, Au 
Stem bright green and shining or slightly browned in the sun, 
naris and smooth, stout and erect, 3 or 4, sometimes nearly 5 ft. 
Radicals usually 4, divergent, large and similar, often each 
7X 5 in., rising at an angle of 45° on strong petioles at least 
equailing their own length, apple-green, cordate-ovate with sub- 
entire or indistinctly crenate margin, deep narrow or sharp sinus, 
the apex merely acute or suddenly short-acuminate. 
Caulines, after a few of the preceding characteristic type, 
become chiefly oblong-ovate, strong-serrate, short-acuminate, 
truncate-based or finally rounded, with short irregular broad 
wing ; spaced at regular intervals of 3 in., or in smaller plants 
