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ASTER IANTHINUS 379 
Bracts coriaceous, oblong or lingual with rounded apex, nearly 
all alike, with little pubescence or ciliation. 
Rays long, full clear hong, becoming pale and soon whitish. 
Disks deo, purplish brow 
General leaf-color deep full green, the radicals often paler and 
yellowing early in fall. 
Habitat, wood roads and borders, New England and Ontario 
to Alabama and Tennessee. 
Examples : 
Mass., Great "edis cari on Great Hill, near waterworks, Se. 20, '94, 
Addison orm in his her 
SS., incen Se. 3, '95, in hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., Wilbraham, Au., 
'99, "e. P Gill 
Mass., Mitac fells, top of rocks under thin trees, Au., ’98, 
N. Ya eorge, 95, Mrs. Watrous in hb. Colu. E Champlain near 
Plattsburg, Au. 3h’ 97. 
NY R Bryn Mawr Park, flat stones, Se. 13, '97, Se., ’98-1905 , 
opposite ig JAN Se. '975 by path, Se. 26, '96. 
a Mis. Undereif Se "97s 
d . Y., Sztiver Cr., Aster-bank, Au. 17, ’96, in je deep violet bloom, a 
dense patch wa iif: heads IM in. across; type fain in faded niggers 
bloom, Au. 24, ’97 ; gara, Goat I., Au. '96; Buffalo, ues n hb. Buf. Ne 
Hist. Soc Fb, Pt. Gratiot PE. Mos 21, '96, Au. 29, ' 96, Jal 29. °o7, Am IK, 
"02:3 TRETEN Se. 4, 796 dariy Marsh’s Woods, Se. 1, 796. 
Pa., Pocono rd b p 'gr, 7. C. Porter in hb. Pey Susquehanna, Se. 
20, '95, fas. A. Graves in hb. 
Va., Mt. Rogers, "i u^ Heller, in hb. Porter 
Tenn. Wolf Cr. Cocke Co., Se. 2, "99, Ze B. dins ]r, in hb. US 
Nat. Mus., no. 313088. 
la., Auburn, Lee Co., Se. 18, '97, Earle and Baker, in hb. Colu. ; very 
few glands, ok on the bracts. 
76° Refined form. Delicate plants with slender, glabrate, 
rather weak greenish stems 114 ft. high ; small, broad, deep green 
leaves smoothish in life; and few-flowered, long- pedicelled, small 
inflorescence, fragrant and with long, deep violet rays of surprising 
beauty ; in depths of cool woods. No radicals or few. Repeatedly 
observed isolated, a single plant in a place, with little slender root- 
stocks, perhaps seedlings from the zanxthinus type and made gla- 
brate from sylvanism ; but perhaps not properly assigned here. 
Stems in shade with hardly any hair, and leaves smooth to touch, 
but rough in a few seen at the wood-borders. 
Examples include : 
Ontario, Pr. Abino, L. Erie, by swamp back of the Pines, heads even 1 
in. across, pe E '96; Niagara, Foster's Flat, a few plants, Au. 27, ' 
2: anes Aster-bank ips and below, above «id below the 
peli, Pu in edge of open ‘‘slashing,’’ '96. Fredonia, Se. 1, 796; 
Cus "96. 
17, 
a, Se. 4, '96; Cattaraugus resn. near vn eis Cr, An. 
