396 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
branching. Gray described A. Hervey as having erect bracts, 
relying on the dried specimen, which would have been an impor- 
tant distinction from A. commixtus, described by Nees as having 
squarrose bracts. But I find A. Herveyi has many bracts squarrose 
when growing, on examining them in the field, though most of 
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them seem to flatten on pressing, as do many of those of A. com- 
mixtus. 
Variants : 
82? A. Herveyi x A. spectabilis? Thicker-leaved small plant 
growing near both parents Se. 11, '98, at New Bedford, with 
biacuminate leaves, elliptical to ovate-lanceolate; leaf-form an 
size more as in the latter species; texture more of A. macrophyllus 
L., which also grew near; leaves much thicker than the forms of 
A. Herveyi following. Figured, Fic. 106 f. A form of A. Herveyi 
collected by Sargent at Tiverton, R. I. (with other forms), seems 
the same as this supposed hybrid. 
