394 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
nada, Avugston, dry woods, Se. 23, 1901; Toronto Junction, Se., 1905, 
A. B. Pw in hb. Bz 
. N. Y., Cattaraugus resn., toward Little Indian Falls in basswood-clear- 
ing, Au. r3, '98, filling the woodland ; most of these plants failed to flower again the 
August following 
82. AsTER HERVEY! Gray. 
Slender, glabrate, remote-flowered plants, with thin, ovate 
roughened leaves, little sinus or acumination, the radicals about 4, 
large, low-crenate and long petioled, the caulines ovate to lance- 
oblong and sessile; with upcurved lengthened pedicels, long 
narrow blue-violet rays, and thin flat bracts, with broad, obtuse 
viscid green-tips, the inner pale, scarious and shining, and some of 
them oe or spreading. 
Name from the cpl 
Mr. E. Williams Hervey, of New 
ford, Mass., eon sent the first ster 
mens to Dr. Asa Gray in 1866, 
who still it dns out the orig fue 
colony to me at the aes on Clark? 
Neck, New Bedford, 897. 
Fic. £0§, dx. from original 
type locality, Se. 11, ^97, in muc 
» py nat. size; ó, characteristic 
leaf-form, radical or lower cauline , 
young radicals, as developed May 6; 
e, radicals as developed Se. 11, '97. 
Fic. 106, plant from thinner 
shade, !4 nat. size; æ, e, its radicals; 
f, plant from pes roadside; all of N. 
Bedford, Se. 
Peace she, no. 3784; Br. 
and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: rede and in Garden 
and Forest, 2: 473 (1 
Stem 2 14 ft. w^ or less, 
green and terete, slender, erect 
from a long slim rootstock of 
half-inch internodes. 
one shoot! x 2 in., form the 
usual radical cluster. All or 
some of these have a slightly overlapped, asymmetrical rounded 
se, with or without f sharp sinus: their margins low- 
