ASTER SEDIFOLIUS AND ITS VARIETIES 83 
leaves being 8-nerved, at least at the base, and belong to var. B. 
; n 
edi fk ifthe Boissier Bulletin, ined an the ase <e never 
been r Popes rted from any part of Switnerland, or from the French 
territory ss sea to Geneva, and is not noted in — Swiss flora. 
I aceous Ground in Kew Gardens there was a plant in 
full stom in September, ial exactly fits the Semntaensi, and 
from which the leaf-measurements given above were taken. 
Exactly agreeing also with this plant is n. 423 of the set of dried 
ble. 
, 
plants issued through the Société Dauphinoise of Greno 
B. intermedius.—Folia omnia lanceolato-linearia, stricta, mucro- 
de ba e 
nata vel acuta, inferiora mediaque trinervia, saltem si ceterum 
parte via. © 8-16 athiorum. Bractee szpe 4, 
suprema anthodii squamas subtendente, sursum sensim m s 
i 
purpurate. Ligule sepius 10, 2 20 mm lon ng. ‘aaa virente 2mm. 
incluso),—pappi pilis ad ligulam mediocrem circiter 80. Flores 
disci circiter 12,—pappi Somat oe flosculum mediocrem 108. Stylus 
cum brachiis st mm. Specimina viva in Hort. Kew. culta 8-5 dem. 
n, France, aise: . Italy, where its ea uthern and 
tioherie Tinie sie those of the species as a whole as given above. 
in 
in Herb. Kew.). erb. Kew. also there are specimens from 
Aude (1819), Monfpeltier (1828), and Carmen (Perret, 1811). Lin- 
nus also gives Montpellier as a locality for the plant. In Italy it 
is limited to the coast of Liguria: on the Riviera di Ponente it ee 
t 
eported fr d the 
Lunigiana hills (Gibelli, i877 in Herb. Kew.). The Genoa station 
marks the northern limit of the plant in Europe. 
a (f. communis) Ate acris Reichb., Willk., 4. hyssopifolius 
Cav Chrysocoma Linosyris Asso, @ alatea intermedia Cassini, 
Galatella intermedia Buek, G. punctata var. intermedia Cand., Aster 
acer var. intermedius mri Fl. de France, viii 49. 
osa.—Planta glanduloso-viscosa, squamis anthodii ovato- 
chong, serotina Sanaces florendi. Bractee plerumque 6. Ligule 
8 (vel 6). 
Hab. South of Spain; near Granada and Cadiar (Boissier),— 
