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ASTER JUSSIEI 389 
ascending at a rather high angle, usually greatly overtopping the 
central corymb and finally forming an irregular loosely- -paniculate- 
decompound tangle, most confused in plants of moderate size. 
Heads 3$ in. high or the 
central ones 1 in., their pedi- 
cels slender, straight, thick- 
ened at the summit, develop- 
ing during flowering to 1 in. 
long or more 
Bracts conspicuously tri- 
serate with prominent large 
lancetriangular green-tips, all 
alike at the acutish or almost 
obtuse apex, the outer ovate- 
oblong, others oblong-subu- 
late or linear, mostly with thin 
scarious reddened margins. 
Rays long, narrow, I 5—20, 
often 18, linear and tapered 
to an entire apex (so often, 
but occasionally 3-toothed), 
deep purplish-violet. 
Disk-flowers with 
narrow linear acutish lobes (all 
equal and alike, so far as ob- 
served), the lobes twice as long 
in proportion as is usual in 
the Macrophylli ; body "mni 
X ia y» 
lobes form 1; to % the a 
of the bell. 
Glandular pubescence minute, sometimes almost absent from 
the stem ; other pubescence little developed, scantily on leaves be- 
neath while young. 
Habitat, rich woods and abandoned clearings, Western N. Y. 
Fig. 103. 
Examples : 
W. N. Y., Cattaraugus resn., Indian-line road, Little Indian Cr., near last 
field, Au. 13, "o8. Dunkirk, Pr. Gratiot, Au. 29, 96, Au. 21, '97, Au. 11, '97; 
cornfie 
Fredonia, Marsh's woods, Se. 1, ^96; Si/ver Cr., Aster-bank, Au. 17, '96; Talcott's 
I] in. broad, ,*, in. high, Au. 15, ’96; Swift's Hill, Au. 15, '96 
anada, Magara, at Foster's Flat, Au. 25, '96. 
Allies. Unlike A. commixtus in being taller, slender, thinner- 
leaved, lanceolate rather than oblong oval in predominant leaf 
