400 DESCRIPTION OF ASTERS; MACROPHYLLI 
hardi. If so, this would account for the old label ‘‘ Aster com- 
miatus" on both of Bernhardi’s specimens (now in hb. Mo. Bot. 
Gar If Nees gave the name to the plant at first in this form, 
Aster, etc., it may have been before 1825, when Cassini's genus 
Eurybia appeared ; at all events, when Nees came to publish his 
new species it was as Eurybia commixta, and with allusion in com- 
parison with Cassini's Æ. /ussie? which Nees thought similar but 
probably distinct, as its characters, smoothish leaves rather than 
rough, sublanceolate-cordate lower leaves, appressed obtusish 
bracts, etc., indicated. Nees’ description of his commixtus is as 
follows : 
4. Eurybia commixta N. ab E. 
E. foliis ovatis, caulinis superioribus oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus serratis viscido- 
scabris, caule ohh orymboso, periclinii foliolis imbricatis squarrosis acutis 
Eurybia fussiei Cass. in Dict. des sc. nat. XXXVII, p. 487? [but see su- 
pra, p. 390 ag 
Crescit . . . In Hortum Bonnensem illata est, absque nomine. Floret Septembri, 
Perennis. 
lis patie circiter, teres, inferne glaber, superne pubescenti-scaber, subvis- 
ieri Folia radicalia petiolata, ovata, acutiuscula, appresso-serrata, utrinque scabra. 
Petioli angusti. Caulina inferiora pariter petiolata, iach -ovata, serrata, petiolo 
exicau 
tie glands]. pex caulis abit in corymbo compositum ; rami patuli, 5-8-flori, 
mulis simplicibus, rarius 2-3-flori, foliis aliquot lanceolatis patentibus subserratis 
Mom. Calathium fere Lurydiae macrophyllae. Periclinium ovatum, foliolis im- 
bricatis oblongo-lanceolatis ciliatis scabriusculis apice acuto viridi squarroso-patulis. 
Radius angustus linearis, lilacinus, periclinio parum longior. Discus periclinium non- 
nihil superans, primum luteus, dein cupreo-fuscus. Clinanthium alveolatum, alveolis 
acute dentatis. — Achaenia lineari-cuneiformia, nervoso- (10)-striata, setulis exiguis 
scabra. we pallidus 
Differt a binis praecedentibus [.4. glomeratus and A. macrophyllus]: foliis radi- 
calibus sgn rameis serratis, corymbo magis composito, periclinio-squarroso, 
pube glut [The last word does not imply that Nees thought of 4. macrophyllus 
as gE for he iod already said, p. 141, that its leaves are glandular-hairy 
all over 
DeCandolle's description adds only the sug ep that prob- 
ably it was of North American origin; and that he had seen it 
formerly cultivated in. England under the name A. ias De- 
Candolle seems to have had no specimen ; his description, “which 
was condensed from Nees, is as follows: 
** 5. B[IOTIA] coMMIXTA, caule inferné glabro superné pubescenti-scabro patulo- 
corymboso, foliis ovatis serratis, radic. petiolatis, caulinis super. oblongo- lanceolatis ses- 
silibus viscido scabris, capitulis pace invol. squamis imbricatis subsquarros sis 
acutis, ligulis elongatis. Perennis: patr. ign. verisim. Amer. bor. Lurybia com- 
