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ASTER GRANULOSUS 387 
Radical primary type (and in lower caulines) ovate-lanceolate 
with narrow, deep, sharp or overlapping sinus, as if cut out of the 
diminished ovate base, much as in A. excavatus among Divaricati ; 
4 X 2% in. or less; the veins spreading, alternate, 6 pairs, but of 
widely diverse direction ; 2 or 3 such leaves, their bases tardily 
unrolling from the involute shallop-like bud 
Radical secondary type, seemingly predominartt in radicals of 
later start or of forced growth, broad and short with sharp, small, 
slight sinus, closed and appearing sharp by overlapping, with 
coarser but similar teeth and veins, with somewhat oval-acute or 
triangular-short-ovate leaf-form and larger size, 414 x 3% or 
2% x 21⁄4 in., and slender petiole slightly longer; 4 such and as 
many small ones occurring from one rootstock, and becoming 
highly detentive-hispidulous on both surfaces. 
Lowest caulines like the primary or secondary radicals, but 
much smaller, as in plants with the 6 lowest leaves all only 
2x. 
Middle caulines elliptic-acuminate, abruptly tapered into a short 
cuneate- -wing base; 3 x 2 in. or in smallest leaved plants all 
114 x 76 in. 
Upper caulines and axiles sessile, oblong-ovàte or elliptic- 
biacuminate or oblong-lanceolate. 
Rameals sessile, oval- acute or ovate, with truncate base, or 
smaller and obovate 
Inflorescence very wide-spread, remotely-forked and diffuse, 
becoming 1 ft. high and as broad, the long slim pedicels often 1 
or 1% in. long, all nearly simultaneous in flower, often forked 3 
from a node, more often 2. Involucre pale, sub-turbinate or 
hemispherical. 
Bracts polymorphous, oblong, the lowest seemingly obtuse 
with an acutish centre, the next and most numerous bevel-tipped 
and acute, the inner oblong-lingual and decidedly obtuse; the 
inmost linear-tapering and still obtuse. 
Affinity, apparently a mutation from A. guescens, but with very 
unlike aspect and without transitional forms. 
` Habitat, dry rocky woods, Conn. to Penn. 
Examples : 
n., Meriden Hills, Se. 25,58, coll. D. C. Eaton, in hb. Mo. Bot. Gar. 
Conn., Groton, **dryish rocky woods, w. of Cedar Swamp, Au. 28, '99," 
C p. Grovesi in hb. £z. 
, Yonkers, Seminary corner, Se. 14, 1905. 
N. "s Palisades, Undercliff, 1897, id "do. 1900, type locality, and with 
abundant sprout forms, Oc. 7, '99 ; obliterated by parking, Igor. 
a., Nockamixon, Bucks Co., rocks, Oc., '78, a late growth, then in young 
and aes blossom, 7: C. Porter in hb. Bu. 
