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and sessile; bracteals oval, small and few. Inflorescence loosely 
corymbose, with long-ascending pedicels ; bracts narrow and acute 
or subulate, ciliate and minutely puberulent, the apex squarrosely 
recurved ; rays palé violet becom 
white: disk becoming copper- pa 
From its congeners A. mirabilis and 
the northern A. Herveyi, this is distin- 
guished by the long acumination of its 
squarrose bracts; and from A. ra- 
bilis by its capitate glands. — In dry 
woods, Georgia and Alabama. Late 
summer and fall." 
Known specimens : 
I. Ga., ‘* Upson Co., dry woods, at the 
base gi oe Mt., Au. 28, t901,” A. M. Harper 
in hb. Y. Bot. Gar. 
2: Aln, (€ Osanippe Cr, Lee Co. dry 
ground, Se. 6, us S. Earle, no. 2206. 
3. Hort. Bonn, Nees' original specimen, 
puces vial from the Atlantic coast of the 
** brought Bonn without a name" re- 
marks Nees, cn Ari before 1825? Were Bern- 
hardi's specimens taken n this? No specimens 
from the herbarium of Nees are known 
Hb. Mo. Bot. Gar. et hb. Bernhardi, 
wo sheets each with similar specimen ini of plant) 
ua. labels reading “ Aster commixtus.’’ Each d 
has a second specimen accompanying it viia ap- 
peared to belong to A. macrophyllus verus; and Aster commixtus 
the best developed plant has also two oval-acute 
serrate non-cordate EE it radicals 
Mdh purport to Prep. to it; see figure 107, a, c, 
5. Hb. Bot. Gar. ex hb. A. Braun, a young plant coming into flower 
without TNI pet “ Eurybia commixta Nees, hort. Carlsr[uhe], 1943, A. 
Braun.’ Fig. 107, e represents its lower cauline iat Aye 
6 ex Hort. Paris, iris in ult. as Ziofía commixta, and brought to Bot. Gar. 
of Harv. Univ. 1871; so wrote A. Gray on its label in hb. Gray. 
7. ex hb, Mus. Paris, ex hort. Paris, ** B. commixta D.C.," 1869, in. hb, 
us 
Fic. t07. 
ipn x hb. Nees, as Eurybia commixta, cult. in hort. Breslau; given to Schultz 
Bipontinus ; in hb. Gray 
History. Nees’ original description was based on a plant of 
the botanical garden of Bonn, where he was director, 1819-1830; 
a plant which, he remarks, was “ brought there without a name." 
He may have found it there on his accession in 1819. Perhaps 
he named it in the garden and in his herbarium Aster commixtus, 
and transmitted specimens under that name to his friend Bern- 
