398 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
Eurybia commixta, Nees, 143. Biotia commixta, DC. Prodr. 5: 265 (excl. 
syn.?), is a robust cultivated pad of this, on has long been in the gardens, of un- 
known origin. — Borders of oak woods, E. Mas:. and R. I., near the coast, Hervey, 
Sargent, etc. Grows in company with r oo and A. igi evidently 
most related to the former, both in foliage and inv ac 
Br. and Br. Ill. Fl. 3: 374 (1898), with fig. dos 
Stem roughish, at least above, slender, simple or pel iin 4 branched, rarely 
paniculate, 1-3 ft. high, the branches glandular-puberulent. - Leaves firm, rough 
above, pubescent on the veins beneath, the basal and ias ones on slender naked 
petioles, ovate, dentate with low, usually distant teeth, acute at the apex, narrowed, 
rounded or rarely cordate at the base, 2-6 in. long, 1-3 in. wide; upper leaves sessile, 
or narrowed into winged petioles, smaller, entire or nearly so; heads I to 1% in. broad; 
involucre turbinate or campanulate, its bracts appressed, or sometímes spreading, densely 
pe oblong or spatulate, obtuse or mucronulate ; rays 15-25, violet, 5 to 7 lines 
long; achenes minutely pubescent, striate ; pappus nearly white. — In dry soil, eastern 
Maik, and R. I. Apparently hybridizes with 4. spectabilis. Ai -Oc. 
Subdivision D. 
Plants usually 1% or 2 ft. high; lower leaves 3 in. or less; 
traces of cordation almost absent; bracts very squarrose ; leaves 
thick and extremely rough. Sp. 8 
* Glands abundant; bracts narrow, acute or acuminate. 
83. ASTER coMMiXTUS (Nees) Kuntze. 
Small plants with oblong-acute or ovate leaves, paniculate- 
corymbed, wide-spread inflorescence, small heads, narrow, acute 
principal bracts, the inner ones subulate-acuminate, some lower or 
inner ones subsquarrose or recurved. 
Name from the appearance as if of hybrid origin. 
Fic. 107, 1 nat. size, a, specimen (the top of plant only) the most complete 
of the two plion in the hb. Bernhardi labelled ad ERNER s own hand?) Aster 
commixtus; c, its Ve -form; d, a Apu purporting to belong with it; e, a lower 
cauline from young plant ibaie y A. Braun as p aen commixta, Nees, hort. 
Carlsr, "o ” 5 all these now in nm p Bot. Gar. 
Eurybia commixta Nees, Gen. Ast. 142. 1832. 
Aster ornatus Hort. Po "ni DC. Prodr. 5: 265. 
Biota commixta DC. 265. 
Aster. commixtus Kun rna Ra Gen., 1891, and so written by Nees before 
1825? but not published ; so written by Bernhardi in his herbarium; so published, Bur- 
gess in Small’s S. E. Flora (page 1212), with description : 
“Stem 5—6 dm. high, rather Que glandular-pubescent over 
the upper half and strigose above. Leaf-blades rough, thick, dull 
green, paler beneath, ovate-acute in type, low-serrate or with 
curvescent teeth, and with slender petioles; only the basal leaves, 
if any, NUT cordate ; upper leaves diminished, finally lanceolate 
