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ASTER ELAEAGNIUS 315 
Rays rather narrow, typically of a dull blue-violet before fading, 
Habitat, river thickets and wood-borders, Maine to Minne- 
sota and northward. 
Examples include : 
P acu Orono, Penobscot Co., Se. 3, Se. 6, '93, low woods, M. L. Fernald 
in hb. 
le^ Y., Z. Champlain, near Plattsburg, Au. 31, '97. Adirondacks, Beaver R., 
at McKeever, Pun 28,97, type locality, and Clearwater, Au. 28, '97, Bu. ; North Elba, 
Au "95 C. AL Peck in tb. V. Y. St 
Minn., N. P. Junction, Se. 1, ’91, J. H. Sandberg, nos. 18906 and 18907 
in hb. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Allies. A. elaeagnius resembles A. macrophyllus L., but is apt 
to show these differences : radicals chiefly 2 ; leaves chiefly elliptic, 
gray-backed ; stem apt to be deep red; inflorescence irregularly- 
flattish, scattered; bracts quite scarious-edged ; rays blue-violet ; 
much closer, inconspicuous and crenulate. It resembles A. macro- 
apes L. and differs from many other species, in having very 
rough harsh eon tecti bracts, dark dull-green leaf-surfaces 
above, and roughis 
Unlike A. ce cie velutinus in its larger form and leaves, 
fewer more separated heads, and larger non-triangular leaves. 
Unlike A. multiformis in its more irregular inflorescence, more 
blue-violet in the rays and of a harder tint, and its broader bracts. 
Unlike A. guadratus in its inflorescence, bract-form, bract- 
margins, and leafform ; in having obvious hair; and in its more 
scattering growth. 
These five Adirondack forms seem well differentiated when the 
specimens are brought together. 
75. Aster Masardiensis sp. nov. 
. Wandlike soft villous plants outlined in sweeping curves from 
greatly-thickened russet-brown rootstocks, with sharp slight sinus, 
sharp-serrate and aquiline margins, slender petioles, wing-base 
axials, large remotish heads, thin subscarious involucre, and triform 
type of leaves and bracts, the leaves successively cordate-acumi- 
nate, oval-acuminate and lanceolate, the bracts ovate-acute, linear- 
obtuse, and then attenuate-acute. 
Name from its type locality, Masardis, Me. 
Fic. 98, plant from Masardis, Me., Se. 8,'97, in hb. Bz.,coll. M. Z. Fernald 
Stem green or somewhat browned, 2% feet high or less, sub- 
