ASTER NOBILIS 359 
Examples : 
N. H., Gorham, on Pt. Lookout, at 1,400 ft. alt., Au., pe Mt. Wash- 
ington, at 2000 ft., Au., 1902; Shelburne, Baldcap Mt., Au, 4 
Mass., Zaconics, Mt. Ee erett, Au., Hen Mt. Ethel, eta , 1901, 1903. 
sm , Salisbury, Au. 18, 1903. 
. Y., L. Champlain, bluffs below pa Government woods, Au. 3I, 
'97, Bu. Cod '99, Sand Lake, Au., 99, C. H. Peck in hb. N. Y. St. 
N. Y., Silver Cr., Talcott’s woods, Au. 15, '96, Au. 3 and 21, '97, Au, 
'98-1904. Pt. Gratiot, Au. 29, '96, July 29, Au. 11, Au. 21, '97; leaves only, '98— 
I904. nua vesn., Indian-line road, abundant, Au. 13, '97, Au. '98-1902. 
Variants. Cabbage-like leaves with merely serrulate axiles 
scem to be developed best in loose gravelly soil. Smaller lower 
leaves and strongly aculeate-toothed axiles seem to be the result 
of moister more clayey soil; the latter producing much more in- 
florescence and much longer branches. 
69. Aster ampliatus sp. nov. 
Large but weak and spreading plants with pale smooth fleshy 
stems, broad, polymorphous leaves with gradually dilated pendu- 
lous basal lobes, dentate or subentire margins, thin sleek leaf-sub- 
stance, cordate-oblong radicals, elongated petioles, short ovate- 
oblong upper caulines and axiles, close convex or irregularly 
profuse inflorescence, narrow-oblong rounded silvery-green scari- 
ous bracts, angular branches and long pale-violet rays. 
Pang L., broadened, from the widened basal lobes of the misc leaves. 
G. 9I, plant from Catskills, Kaaterskill Mt., Se. 7, '98, 74, nat. size, in hb. 
Bu. ; &, its nS ae leaf-form with amplified lobes; c, occasional polymorphous 
radicals ; 4, 4!; natl. size, its more usual radicals. 
Stem green or brown, terete, 3 ft. or less, stout and succules- 
cent, upper parts and branches becoming irregularly shrunken and 
angular in drying. 
Leaf-form polymorphous; the most characteristic type being 
cordate-ovate-obtuse with sides increasingly broadened downward 
into expanded pendent basal lobes, and with the usually acute 
apex early lost, resulting in a liver-like shape. 
Leaf-type large, thinnish, glabrate, asymmetrical, with irregu- 
larly crenate or dentate margin, unequal deep many-curved over- 
lapped sinus, apple-green color and inconspicuous slender brown 
veins. Texture sleek in life, granular-roughened when dry. 
Weak pale strigose hair grows on all veins beneath, is permanent 
over the inflorescence, and early in the season occurs scatteringly 
