ASTER RICINIATUS 373 
purplish and then transiently violet, soon turning whitish, linear- 
biacuminate. Plant very smooth and pale; much purplish-red 
occurs on stem and veins and especially along the bracts ; glandu- 
lar-pubescence very short, with small ene glands, continuing 
down the stem to the base ; strigose pubescence discoverable by 
lens on the upper leaves. Resembles A. iiri n ; but the 
whole plant smoother and paler, with more red and less violet ; 
leaves smaller, shorter, and often dentate; bracts narrower and 
more uniform ; its colors neither sharp nor dull, but as if seen 
— Type [N. C., ‘Cedar Cliff Mt., coll. Au. 24, 1897.’], Biltmore 
Herb., no. 44°, in Herb. N. Y. B. G” 
** Inflorescence more irregular or diffuse. Sp. 74-79. 
T Leaves thicker, rougher; hair often villous or downy, or 
when dried, bristly. Sp. 74-76. 
74. Aster elaeagnius sp. nov. 
Small harsh dark-green plants with orbicular-ovate radicals, 
serrate margins, slight and open sinus, irregular tufted inflores- 
cence, blue-violet rays, glumaceous and silvery inner bracts and 
. woolly outer ones, large triangular green-tips, and polymorphous 
caulines with some leaves broad-deltiform and many elliptical, all 
pale and villous beneath, with gray or brown-scurfy aspect. 
Sr from the Elaeagnus as ae of w bon deni leaves, 
97, plant from McKeever, N. Y., Au. 28, '97, in hb. Bw. ; 6, charac- 
teristic test "tie petiole broken off ; 4, radicals. 
Stem erect but not rigid or straight, slender and continuously 
slightly bent, pale above, deep purple-red below, sparsely villous, 
and overspread with short pale glandular stubs. 
Rootstock black, of moderate thickness and length. Radicals 
usually 2, ovate-orbicular, acutish, crenate. 
Leaf- rather firm, harsh above, granular-roughened and 
hispidulous Suc when dry, dark dull green or brownish-green, 
serrate, with open or shallow recurvate sinus, continuously petioled, 
narrowly acuminate, villous and pale beneath with peculiar gray 
or brown-scurfy surface, due to long pale or ecru or straw-colored 
hairs and to brown veins and close veinlets, and often greatly in- 
creased by brown spots of alie s or other fungus, the hairs 
in those cases brownish on these spo 
DE ad leaves broadly beech asthe, or triangular-cordate, 
soon losing sinus and becoming truncate, longer than their slender 
petioles, not large, 5 x 4 in. or chiefly tx e 
