ASTER MASARDIENSIS 311 
Examples : 
Epis Gatineau R., Se. 3, '94; vraie in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar. 
H., Gorham, near Androscoggin R., Au. 9, 1902 
= aine, Masardis, Aroostook Co., caus river kki rays ira M. L. 
Fernald, Se. 8,’97, in hb. Bu.; Orono, Penobscot Co., low Da Se. 6, '95, do. 
W. N. Y., Cattaraugus resn., in, 31, '99; plant seemingly referable to this 
species ; or a sport of 4. zostemma. 
76. ASTER IANTHINUS Burgess. 
Tall wandlike plants with smooth pale brownish-green stems, 
broad suborbicular leaf-form, firm roughened texture, downy or 
villous under-surfaces, ubiquitous minute glands, conspicuous wing- 
bases, close convex inflorescence, oblong and rounded bracts, and 
violet rays soon turning to dingy white. 
ame, L., cio/et-colored, the violet of the rays being sometimes transiently ex- 
traordinarily clear and deep. 
IG. 99, plant from Silver Cr., N. Y., Au. 17, '96, in hb. Zz.; 2, charac- 
teristic radical or lower cauline leaf; v, bract; 4, radical group, e, primordial of May 
10, ! 98 
A. ianthinus MES in Br. and Br, Ill. FI., 3: 360 (1898) with Fig. 3745 
and original ponent 
“Glandular, dark green, slightly strigose pubescent. Stem 
erect or decumbent, 2—3 ft. tall, leaves thinnish, rough, the lower 
and basal ones orbicular to oblong, 5 in. long or less, abruptly 
acuminate, low-serrate or crenate ; the sinus broad, open, shallow ; 
upper leaves sessile by a narrowed base, crenate-serrate. Inflores- 
cence open, nearly naked; peduncles slender, divergent; heads 
large ; rays 10-13, long, very deep violet or sometimes pale, 4 to 
6 lines long; bracts green-tipped, little pubescent. — On shaded 
banks and along woodland paths, Me. to L. Erie and W. Va. 
July-Oct." 
Stem stout but not strong, often decurved, or if erect, arising 
in long undulatory curves. 
Radicals chiefly 3, one cordate-deltoid and rather narrow, 4 1 x 
3 in. or less, with broad shallow sinus somewhat as in A. violaris ; 
the others large and equal, 7 x 6 in. or less, of the typical form, 
granular-roughened when first mature, nearly orbicular, abruptly 
short-acuminate, with conspicuous broad rectangular sinus, and 
serrate dentate orcrenate margin. Often an earlier smaller orbicu- 
lar leaf is present, crenate with perfectly-curved even teeth. 
Lower caulines similar to the last or sometimes to the first, 
somewhat remote. 
Middle caulines very characteristic, oval-biacuminate, the cen- 
