ASTER GRANULOSUS 385 
or oval. Other caulines and axiles sessile, obovate or short-ovate, 
clumpy shallow crenate or subentire. Palisades, Dunwoody, etc. 
78° Stump-fed form. Similar to last but all foliage very large 
and luxuriant and rays dark. Palisades, decaying stump. 
79. Aster granulosus sp. nov. 
Little-leaved granular-roughened  brownish-green glabrate 
plants with short winged or narrowed petioles, small sharp sinus, 
low-crenate margins, diminished lobes, obtuse acumination, brittle 
stem, widely diffused and forking inflorescence, narrow lavender 
rays, bevel-tipped bracts, broad short radicals and small scattered 
rootstocks. 
, L., from the strong ppc to Adae roughness, chiefly on the 
upper ses a" Pm o on lower surfaces an 
Fic. , from Palisades, N.£J., Oc. 7, '99, in hb. Bu.; a, normal plant, 4, 
its Fidem ie lend c, its bracts, d, its radicals as seen Oc. 7; e, as developed May 
Io, with one primordial ; f, sprout form ; 4, dwarf, with its radicals, winter-leaves, 7; 
g, little-leaf form, tall plant with all leaves alike small. 
Stem brown or greenish, terete, slender and brittle, with short 
close internodes 
Radicals 3, or in luxuriant plants even 5 large ones, 5 x 317 
in. or less, with 3 small ones of similar shape, 1 in. long or so, and 
4 little non-cordate elliptic or obovate ones, still smaller. 
Leaf-type polymorphous, the caulines prevailingly narrow, the 
radicals broad and short ; substance thin, firm, opaque dull green, 
as in A, quiescens, soon brownish-green. Veins pale and almost 
white beneath, up-curved from the first. Teeth mostly excavate- 
crenate (with single dorsal curve only) or excavate-curvescent 
(with double curve), shallow and inconspicuous.  Petiole short, 
half the leaf-breadth usually, narrowly margined or becoming 
cuneate-winged above. Sinus sharp, narrow and short, soon be- 
coming shallow, broad and recurvate. Apex taper-acuminate with 
obtuse end or soon becoming so by breaking. Surfaces granular, 
roughened or hispidulous, more highly and extendedly so than in 
such allies (A. gazescens, etc.) as also partake the granular surface. 
Primordial quadrate-oblong, excavate-curvescent, very obtuse, 
minutely cordated, with much red above and along margins, with 
narrow-margined petiole twice its length, somewhat ciliate and with 
5 or 6 pairs of uniform, straight, parallel, opposite veins, all at an 
angle of 65? to the midrib, yellowing by middle of my. ix 5 in. 
second similar but larger primordial may reach 23 x 13 in., 
become green and serve as a radical foliage-leaf by May 15. 
