ASTER HERVEYI 397 
82° A. Herveyi x A. spectabilis? Oblong-leaved plant, another 
intermediate, or a probable hybrid, much narrower and slighter in 
all its parts than the last, but with a wide-forking, paniculate 
corymb ; the small, narrow leaves more oblong, very similar to 
the oblong leaves of a narrow form of 4. spectabilis which grew 
with it, but the lower ones with slender petioles and broadened 
bases, as in A. Fferveyi ; with pale green stems, glabrate ; leaves 
rough when dry ; some bracts somewhat squarrose. Glen, New 
Bedford, Ms., Se. 
82* L jobs form, perhaps also a hybrid; smaller and 
slenderer than the type; its radical, lower and middle cauline 
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oblong, strap-like, usually toothed toward the apex, and continu- 
ing broad to the sessile base, instead of entire and tapering to 
base and apex, as in true A. spectabilis. Grows with the type at 
the New Bedford, Milton and West Roxbury localities, and more 
abundant if we may trust herbarium material. Specimens also 
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äss., Readville, Neponset R., Au. 13, '93, 7. KR. piii in hb. W. 
Deane ; bu Park, Muddy Pond — and hills, C. Æ. Faxon, 26, '87, and 
Oc. 12, '87, in hb. Cox. ; Oc. 10, '85, and Oc. 9, '88, in hb. Gray. ys Hill, rocky 
woods near summit, Se. Ir, '85, Æ. Faxon in hb. Gray. Bract tips enlarged and 
squarrose. 
I., Tiverton, C. S. Sargent, Au. 17, '79, in hb. Gray and hb. Candy. 
History. First described by Asa Gray, Manual, ed. 5: 22 
(1867) as follows : 
A. Herveyi, n. sp. Stem slender, 1-2 ft. high, nearly smooth, the summit and 
peduncles of e several corymbose heads minutely glandular-pubescent; leaves thin- 
nish, roughish, obscurely Wien: d very wig all i the uppermost 
taper-pointed, and also tapering bel nto a narrowed e or winged petiole ; heads 
small (less than % in. ae exclusive of the narrow Pod involucre between bell- 
shaped and top-shaped ; the scales uii, glandular, linear, or the short outer ones 
oblong, with greenish appressed tips; achenia linear, slightly pubescent. — Borders of 
oak woods, in rather moist soil, New Bedford, Mass., Æ. W. Hervey, Sept. to Au. — 
An ambiguous member, and the smallest-flowered, of the section [Calliastrum]. 
Pappus whitish, finer than that of the preceding. 
Gray, Synoptical Flora: 
Slightly scabrous, the corymbose branches and short peduncles glandular-puberu- 
lent; leaves minutely or obscurely serrate ; radical and lowest cauline ovate on slen- 
der naked petioles; upper voisines een loosely corymbiform-cymose ; involucral 
bracts all Bas [chiefly so in most pressed specimens, all so in some, but many bracts 
squarrose in the field, as the discoverer iie me before I. verified it, N. Bedford, 
1898] and with less distinct close tips, pulverulent-glandular ; the short outer oblong- 
linear; rays 15 to 24, narrow, halfinch long, lilac or violet. — Man. ed 230. 
