382 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
aquiline-toothed, occurs above these, followed by the pe radi- 
cals, which by that time have attained about L ZZ in. squa 
Surface smooth when dry occasionally, hispid- Pih ipsi usu- 
ally. 
Inflorescence 4 or 5 in. across, sometimes 8, leafy in aspect 
from the large axiles, and sometimes from the rameals, muc 
deeper than broad, with stiff branches arising at an angle of about 
65°. Heads Z in. high or more ; pedicels twice as long or less. 
Bracts rather uniform and pale, narrow and linear-obtuse, in life, 
acute by infolding of scarious-edges when dry, somewhat ciliate. 
Rays 12-15, narrow and remotish, pale violet or lavender, 1$ 
in. long or less, entire or with 2 or 3 minute teeth. 
Disk-flowers funnel-form with very long capillary stalk, three 
times the length of the body which is itself 3—4 times the length of 
the short erect lobes. 
Pappus long-exserted, soon rufescent. 
Glandular hairs short, at first colorless and clavate, becoming 
black and capitate, developed from the translucent veinlets of the 
minutest reticulation ; such cover the leaves beneath ; similar glands 
but nearly sessile, occur on the upper surfaces ; similar and blacker 
in the midrib and channelled petiole. 
Habitat, moist flat places in rich soil, in considerable shade or 
edge of woods, sometimes in deep leaf-mold between stones. 
Examples include : 
Ct., Salisbury, Au. 18, 1903. 
- vic. , Hastings, late oge faded, Oc. 17, 1905; Yonkers, Bryn Mawr 
Park, path ; Pal almer Av., roadside, Se.,’97, woodpath, near urs Se. 26, ' 96, Se. 25, 
97; Y persistent but s i» om s Towering at all, ' 98-1905. , Flushing, St. Ro- 
's Well, Farley in hb. y, July, '87. 
N. OR Piei puce. old trolley-bend, Se. 24, '97, '98, colony per- 
sisting but reduced and flowerless, 99-1901, then destroyed by parking. 
N. J., Palisades, Bicknell, ** Se. 6, ’92, approaching 4. ZZerzeyi," from the 
violet rays and om. eat upper leaves which suggest those of 4. spectabilis. 
N. Y., ** Steuben Co., Rathboneville, Au., C. H. Peck, in hb. N. Y. St. 
N. Y., Niagara, Goat I., Au. 25,’96. Cattaraugus resn., Little Indian 
4 & 
W. 
Cr., Au. "98, 
78. Aster quiescens sp. nov. 
Low plants of tough, heavy texture, subsucculent in life, very 
rough when dry, with dark green, cordate-oval, pendent-lobed 
leaf-type, crenate margin, deep sharp sinus, irregular, scanty in- 
florescence, acute bracts and pale lavender rays. 
Name, L., from the long time during which large colonies remain without 
flowering. 
