366 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
acuminate leaves with merely rounded base. Upper caulines 
oblong-lanceolate with short wing-base. Axiles oblong-acute 
with broad sessile bas 
Inflorescence broad and loose, si broad and shallow, about 
. broad and 3$ in. high; 
ub about r5, narrow, violet 
soon becoming whitish ; or 
fewer, as I2 
Bracts very uniform, pale, 
with triangular green -tips, 
smoothish, all acute, the lower 
triangular-acute, the others 
narrowly oblong with gradual 
taper to sharp apex. A few 
similar sharp bracts occur at 
the base of the involucre in A. 
macrophyllus ; but to have all 
bracts acute is hardly true of 
any other near ally. 
Glandular hairs stubby and 
minute, very numerous and 
slightly capitate on the inflor- 
Colonies of radicals not 
much seen ; colonies of flow- 
ering plants (as on Goat I., 
Niagara) form.a straggling 
group of erectish stems rising 
among brush and weeds in 
gravelly openings in woods, with loose-topped whitish and dingy 
appearance. 
Habitat, half-shade. 
suis include : 
n 
Mas Tupe Oakes in hb. Zorrey, ** deep-colored,’’ Oakes; ‘‘ A. macro- 
phyllus pay magn.” 
, L. George, De Nai Se. '82, no. 18921 in hb, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
N. vic., ** Tuckahoe, dry woods, 2 18, '96 ; rays violet," Bi. in hb. Bu. 
NT, Palisades sprouts, Oc. 7, ’99. 
W:N Y., PI. Gratiot, Au. 2, fe dig ila on Goat I., large aia in 
full flower and now faded almost white, Au. 25, '96; ** Buffalo, Aster ——," Clin- 
ton, in hb. Buff. Nat. Hist. Soc. Cattaraugus resn., Little Indian Cr., Au. 24, "973 
Silver Cr., Swift's Hill, Au. 12, '98. 
