ASTER SEDIFOLIUS AND ITS VARIETIES 85 
size representation of the flowering _ fail to carry conviction 
as to the reality of their specific differ 
. affinis —Folia omnia lance iach re site: mucronata vel acuta, 
eximie trinervia, sed multo minus punctata, punctis interdum (pre- 
cipue paging superiore) paucis. 
Hab. Notre-Dame du Cros, near Cannes, in the department of 
Aude, and probably elsewhere in S.E. France (Magnier, Fl. sel. 
exs. n. 1207). 
oy A, acer var. affinis Rouy, Fl. de France, viii. p. 149. 
8. insculptus.—6-9 dem. Caulis ireeentaienss ima basi squamis 
aridis tectus, supra has squamas ibi purpurasce Ramuli angulati 
in ramulos pedunculosque subdivisi. Poli primo jialia vix 12m 
Ohtoligo- linearia 5-nervia subimpunc Folia caulina circiter 
5 ctim., lineari-oblonga va late bipeieions aistitate trinervia, basi 
torta hine oblique patentia, apice modice attenuata in mucronem 
concayum contracta, punctis. glanduliferis in superioribus sursum 
ctim. diam 
interiores obtuse colorate. Ligule 9-12. Discus multiflorus. 
Hab. Hungary, Roumania, and Russia.—Hungary : (Sadler € 
Pauer, 1825, in Herb. Kew.), stony pastures in the neighbourhood 
of Samobor in Croatia, the western limit of the plant (Klinggr aeff, 
ax Schloss. & Vukot. Fl. Croatica, 1869, p. 785); Feryssarn (Janka, 
1865, in Herb. Kew.); Budapest (Besser, in Herb. Kew.); Buzd, 
Riomfalv olos, Torda, and Boldan (Heuffel), in Transylvania 
(ex Binowlat, Fl. Transsilv. 1886, p. sor: banks of the R. Tisza, 
m. p. oii, 
Tisza (herb. Ball and herb. Besser) ; county of Nev s (Sadler); and 
county of Zemplin (ex Nees, Gen. Sp. Aster. p. 2), oumania : 
in woods at Saveni, and elsewhere in Moldavia on the banks of the 
Pruth (Guébhard, Enum. plant. Moldav. MSS., in bibl. A. De Can- 
dolle, cum pl. exs. 1842-48 collectis). Russia: governments of 
Podolia, Ekaterin amb mea; and, i 
Russia, at Borotala (Regel, 1878, in Herb d across the 
dese ngaria, in the prov. of Semirietshensk - ie 
Kurtschum sou Bolshoi Altai range t of 
Semipalatinsk, se is the eastern limit of the plant twantls ex 
Ledebour, Fl. Rossic 
This var. 6 has sn nt confused with var. 6, both by collectors 
and in herbaria, and specim Be HORE 2 named. It has been a 
matter of difficulty among the ou arlum specimens available to 
apportion correctly the plants to ae respective varieties. It is. 
doubtful whether var. insculptus extends further north e 
conte  Bovernments of Russia, and still more doubtful whether 
of the: wees extended range of either of them are not to eee 
