SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 57 
ing tips and whitish chartaceous margins; achenia pubescent.—Twin 
Lakes, Coulter 
ASTER CAR RNEUS, Nees. “Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. On the 
Platte, near Denver, Dr. Smith. 
ASTER AESTIVUS, ‘Ait, var. LAT 8s, Gr. Varies in its smoother 
stem, whieh is slightly pubescent einye: ail the spreading tips of the 
involucral scales.—Caion City, Brande. egee = : 
mn OBLONGIFOLIUS, Nutt. “Huerta County, Greene. (+ '« Zak 
a ae a & G., var. FENDLERI, Torr. Pac. R. R., 4, p. 97. 
1, Gx. "PL Fendl., p. 568) Stems bee tebe a subligneous 
in 3 lotta linear. -oblong, glandalo ose- aeanis. mucronulate, ¢ gees ones 
herbaceous, obtuse , lax; inner ones acute, a little longer; achenia pu- 
bescent.—Pueblo, Greene. Hall & Harbour. Fremont County} Bran- 
degee. 
ASTER GLACIALIS, Nutt. Rhizoma thickish, not creeping; stems 
2/4’ high, erect, minutely pubescent above, bearing a single head, 
leafy or “nearly leafless ; ; leaves thickish, glabrous, spatulate- oblon g and 
lanceolate, radical ones 1/-2/ long, 2/4” wide, narrowed into a long 
petiole, obtuse or even emarginate, canna ones oblong or oblanceo- 
late, partly clasping ; ; Scales of the involucre nearly equal, linear-spatu- 
ute, More or less acuminate, glandular-puberulent or nearly glabrous, 
-commo blackish b-purple 5 rays DEO white oe purplish.— In the 
high alpine can all & Harbour, 242. Mou penceln and White 
_ House Mountain, at cy 000 feet altitude, ‘August, ‘Couilte 
ASTE R SALSUGINOSUS, Richards. Stem erect, ae » 6-8! high) e 
leafy, bearing 1-3 heads, pubescent above with appressed hairs ; in 
ith the marg 
right purple; achenia somewhat hairy—Gray’s Peak, Dr. Smith. 
akes, Weston’s Pass, and Horse Shoe Mountain, ‘at 11,000 feet 
‘Twin La 
altitude, Coulter. 
Astmr ELEGANS, T. & G., var. ENGELMANNI, D. C. Eaton. (A. Engel- 
manni,, Gr. Sill. Jour. (N. 8.) 33, p. 9.) Stems several from a short 
creeping “cerkgyeteg 20_3° high, very leafy; leaves gercowice ower ones 
purulent i inflorescence corymbose, heads peduncled; involucres 
2 aerate ey 6-10” wide; the scale ovate or oblo a 
eee AEST as Stems 19-2° hig i bra see leafy, ae crete <a 
lowest leaves scale-form, the others ee ‘linear, closely sessile, 
