ASTER SECURIFORMIS 367 
Va., Potomac, Rock Cr., , Au. 25, '96, L. F. Ward in hb Bu. 
Mich., Grand Rapids, Ps bs eet, no. 18920 in bh. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Minn., Au., '89, coll. F. F. Wood, no. 18919 in hb. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Wis., Devil’s L., bluffs, Au. 5, '97, L. M. Umbach in hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
due no. 339114. 
| | tt Inflorescence shallow-V shaped, wide-spreading, plants low. 
Sp. 72 and 73. 
72. ASTER MULTIFORMIS Burgess. 
Small deep-green plants with smooth slender stem, narrow- 
cordate lower leaf-type, polymorphous caulines and bracts, serrate 
margins, deep and rather narrow sinus, firm texture rough when 
dry, glandular stubs above, strigose hair on the veins beneath, 
and about 13 violet rays with rounded apex. 
Name, L., from the many shapes of leaf usual on the stem. 
Fic. 94, plant from Pt. Gratiot on L. Erie, July 29, '99, 1 nat. size, in hb. 
A Bu.; 6, its characteristic radicals; a, radical development of May 10; e~A, variants of 
[E Ang: 14, zy nat. ; e, f, petiole-flowering form; g, 4, dwarfs. 
FIG. 95, ped 13, plant also from Pt. Gratiot, Tuly 29,'99, with greater arrest 
of leaf-developmen 
A. messin sie Burgess in Br. and Br. Ill. Fl., 3: 361 (1898) with Fig. 3747, 
and original description : 
“ Deep-green, minutely glandular. Stem erect, slender, 1 to 
2 ft. high, angular-striate in drying. Basal leaves usually 2, 
large, thick, cordate-oblong, often accompanied by later smaller 
oblong ones ; stem leaves very thin, sharply serrate, rough above, 
minutely puberulent beneath, the lower, ovate, acuminate, usually 
with a narrow sinus, the upper oval to ovate-lanceolate, petioled, 
the uppermost elliptic-lanceolate, serrulate, sessile or nearly so. 
Inflorescence small, its branches upwardly curved ; heads about 7 
lines high ; rays about 1 3, rounded and retuse at the apex ; bracts 
green; glands few, almost hidden by the minutely strigose pubes- 
. cence of the peduncles. —In moist shaded places, Me. to W. N. 
———— E eg" 
a: á denn 
, Penn. and Md. — July—Aug.’ 
Stem terete and succulescent when fresh, drying wrinkled and 
angular, usually ascending but seldom perfectly straight and erect, 
and often decumbent : color viro with purpled base, or some- 
times a bright purple red throughou 
Rootstock long and slender, finally becoming for a short dis- 
tance thick, contorted and ey ; the whole cortex of stem and 
rootstock tending to peel off in 
Radicals quite characteristic, ates but 2 (or 2 large and I very 
small and broader), oblong-acute, 734 x 3 in. often, with narrow 
or little-developed sinus, ARa coarsely serrate or shallow- 
