376 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
decumbent, rising in sinuous curves, roughish when dry, with long 
villous hair. 
Rootstock long and finally becoming 34 in. thick or more. 
Radicals (N. H. plants) large, with broad subtruncate base, the out- 
line broad-oblong. 
Lower leaves cordate-ovate, incurved-acuminate, with elegantly 
rounded symmetrical basal lobes and small sharp sinus, roughish 
when dry, aculeately aquiline- 
serrate, full-green, of firm thin- 
nish texture, 4x 3 in. or less. 
iddle leaves the most 
characteristic, long and num- 
erous, Oval and incurved-acu- 
minate, 5 x 214 in., with sub- 
truncate or well-rounded base 
and short slender  petiole. 
Teeth very inconspicuous and 
shallow, crenate-serrate, be- 
coming very shallow and de- 
pressed. 
per leaves and axiles 
ovate-lanceolate, lance-oblong 
and finally linear-lanceolate, 
their bases strap-winged, cu- 
neate-winged and then sessile, 
3x 1% in. to IZ x &% in. 
Rameals continuing the last 
type in more oblong and half- 
reduced pattern. 
Leaves dark, thinnish, re- 
| markably soft and downy to 
| es touch when fresh. 
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is "loose flattish or convex 
; corymb, 8 in. across or less, 
with high-ascending curving branches at an angle of 60? or more. 
Heads rather large, 74 in. high, over an inch wide. Involucre 
hemispherical, ciliate, rather pale, the exteriors green and glandu- 
lar puberulent, minutely downy, the interior portions scarious, pale 
and silvery, with purpled margins, or with bluish margins golden- 
brown at the edges in large examples.  Pedicels 1 to 2 in. long. 
Rays beautiful clear violet (or lavender) long and narrowly 
linear, 10 or more, paling into an olivaceous tint. 
Disks full and broad. 
Habitat, northern thickets, Maine, New Hampshire and Quebec. 
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