STATE GEOLOGIST. '73 



A. puniceus, L. Aster. 



Common througbout the state, excepting noitl) westward; extending to Fergus Falls, 

 Leonard, and into Dakota, Chray's Synoptical Flora ; but not observed in the Eed river 

 valley, Upham. 



A. puniceus, L., var. lucidulus. Gray. (var. vimineus, Torr. & Gray.) 

 Aster. 

 Frequent in the south half of the state . 



A. prenanlhoides, Muhl. Aster. 



Lapham. Common in the vicinity of Hesper, Iowa, adjoining Houston and Fill- 

 more counties, Mrs. Carter. Southeast. 



A. otolongifolius, Nutt. Aster. 



Douglas county, Mrs. Terry ; Fort Snelling, Boherts ; Minneopa falls, Blue Earth 

 county, Upham ; Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett. South. 



[A. amethystinus, Nutt., occurs in Iowa, and probably also in Minnesota, Arthur.] 



A. N'ovse-Aiig'lise, L. New England Aster, 



Minneapolis, Twimng, JBo&erts ; lake Vei^ln, Miss Manning ; common at Hesper, 

 Iowa, Mrs. Carter ; Blue Earth county, Oedge; Kock county, Leiberg. [Upper Missouri 

 river, Geyer, and Saskatchewan, Gray's Synoptical Flora of N. A.] South and west. 



A. niodestus, Lindl.* Aster. 



Moist woods, Oregon to British Columbia on the Pacific, and east to Saskatchewan 

 and Pembina (Ifacoun), Gray's Synoptical Flora of JV. A. Northwest. 



[A. GRAMiNiFOLius, Pursh., is Ekigeron hyssopifolius, Michx., in Gray's Syn- 

 opticalFlora of N. A., and will be found accordingly under that genus.] 



[A. acuminatus, Michx., should be looked for in northern Minnesota.] 



A. ptarmicoides, Torr. and Gray. Aster. 



Abundant, or common, throughout the state. [The var. lutescens, Gray, with "rays 

 pale yellow, small," which occurs in Manitoba and northern Illinois {Gray's Synoptical 

 Flora of N. A.), will probably be found also in Minnesota.] 



A. angaistus, Torr. and Gray. Aster. 



Lapham. Clay county, in the Ked river valley, Gedge, determined by Watson. 

 Northwest. 



A. liiiariifolius, L. (Diplopappus linariifolius, Hook,) Double-bristled 

 Aster, 

 Lapham. Eare. East. 



A. umbellatus, Mill. (Diplopappus umbellatus, Torr. & Gray.) Double- 

 bristled Aster. 

 Throughout the state : abandant northward, common or frequent southward. 



A. umbellatus. Mill., var. pubeiis, Gray. Double-bristled Aster. 



Lower face of the oblong-lanceolate leaves tomentulose-pubescent, also usually 

 the flowering branchlets.— Saskatchewan to upper Michigan. Gray's Synoptical Flora 

 ofN.A. 



* AsTEE MODBSTcrs, Lludl. Merely pubescent or glabrate : stem more slender 

 than in the two preceding species, 2 feet high : leaves thinnish, lanceolate or broader 

 (2 to 4 inches long), sparingly and acutely serrate or denticulate, very acute, mostly nar- 

 rowed to a sessile or partly clasping but not auriculate base: heads fewer and smaller 

 than in the preceding, hemispherical, numerous and usually thyrsoidly or cymosely 

 congested at the summit of the simple very leafy stem : bracts of the involucre less 

 numerous, loose, and more or less herbaceous (or somewhat colored) almost from the 

 base, linear-attenuate, all equalling the disk : rays numerous and narrow, pale blue : 

 style-appendages lanceolate : akenes hirsute. Gray's Synoptical Flora of N. A, 



