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ASTER HERVEYI 395 
crenate, their veins inconspicuous, remote, upslanted from their 
base, their petioles very long and slender, sparsely villous, pale 
reen. Primordial suborbicular. 
Caulines ovate or with rounded base and strong slender petiole, 
soon ovate-triangular, then lance-triangular and obtusely acuminate 
and with taper-wing petiole, then lanceolate and sessile. Axiles 
lance-oblong, sessile by a broad clasping subentire base ; rameals 
similar but only half-length or less. 
Leaf-type thin, membranous, full deep green, pale beneath, gla- 
brate, but much roughened above when 
Inflorescence sparse but showy, the wide-spreading branches 
forking once or twice into long stiff upcurved pedicels, 1 in. or 
1% in. or even 2 in. long. Heads hemispherical, 1⁄4 in. high, 
114 in. or even I Z4 in. broad, apt to be closely subtended by an 
obovate recurving bracteal. 
Bracts thin, pale below, the outer with broad conspicuous deep 
green tips, very obtuse and rounded, at least the upper tips often 
spreading or decidedly squarrose. Inner bracts scarious, pale an 
shining, linear-attenuate but obtus 
Rays long, narrow, remotish, about 14, deep blue-violet, soon 
Bed and palin 
Achenes long, uS fusiform, nearly smooth and brown. 
Spring developme nt as seen in Cambr. Bot. Gar. May 2, 99: 
very roscid-glandular; leaves 11% and even 2 in. long, about 3 to a 
shoot and this now 3 in. high ; two-thirds of the radicals show 
cordation in a slight or a definite notch. Leaves dark green, leav- 
ing the fingers odorous. 
Habitat, thickets and half-shade, wood-borders near the coast, 
southern New England. 
Examples : 
Mass., JV. Bedford, glen on Clark's Neck, original type-locality, Æ. Weil- 
liams Her Rs there discovered by h im 1866, still flowering there substantially un- 
changed Se. 11, '97; specimens in hb. Gray, hb. Colu., hb. Bu., 86, etc. Also 
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Ee DE within the er some blocks from the other station, in 
thinner shade, with more truncate-based caulines, more rit slightly cordate, total 
aspect more like other A/acrophylli; see Fig. 106. Se. OF: 
Mass., Blue Hills, Milton, Se. 18, '94, /. R. vui, E in hb. Gray, etc. ; 
West No. ae Be 15, '85, E. Faxon in hb. W. Deane and hb. ten ray; Brookline, 
E. Faxon, Au. 19, '9o, in hb. Gray and hb. Colu., and Se. 9,'99, in hb. W. Deane ; 
iere Pond ipo Boston, Se. 20,57, Æ. Faxon in hb. Gray; Brookline, at Put- 
am, pe 12, '84, E. Faxon in hb. Gray. 
, N. London, ' 97, E. Williams Hervey, in his hb. 
iiec A. Herveyi as here recognized is unlike A. commixtus 
in having obtuse, not acute, bracts; unlike A. decaphyllus and A. 
Jussiei in having thinner texture, and wholly different bracts and 
