ASTER SEDIFOLIUS AND ITS VARIETIES 87 
Hab. Roumania and Russia. The extreme limits of its range 
are :— 
Kazan (Wirzen, Dissertatio Academica in geographia gh 
arum "per partem provincia Kasanensis, 1839; Prof. Kittary in 
Herb. Ke via 
rment of Elizabetpol, in the Asiatic province of 
Trans-Caueasa (ex Lrdebour), and in the Karabagh District (Szowits 
Barnaul, in the province of Tomsk, Siberia (Herb. Kew., 
ex herb. Delessert ; ; Specimens dated 1780). 
Tiiganesci, in Moldavia (Guébhard, Enum. plant. Molday. 
MSS., in bibl. A. de peer cum pl. exs. 1842-48 collectis). 
Geogr. distrib. Roum : Tiiganesci, in Moldavia, and Kara- 
Nasieb, a Baba-dagh, in 5 tts Dobru dscha {Sialonte, 1878, n. 424, 
in He rb, Kew.); also in Wallachia (Friwaldzky, ex Boiss., Fi. 
i of 
Orient. iii. p. ussia: the governments of Kazan, Penza, 
Saratov, “Orenbinte Podolia, Ekaterinoslay, Kherson, Bessarabia, 
Astrakbes, province of the Don Cossacks, the Crimea, Terek terri- 
tory and Dag estan territory, in Cis- Oatbadin (Ledebour) ; Kurs 
(in Herb. Kew., dated 1899); in Asiatic Russia, Trans-Caucasia 
Mountains (Ruprecht in Sertum Tianschanicum, p. 51, 1869) ; all 
these three in the prov. of Semirietshensk; Ili Valley, in the same 
province (Semenov, in Herb. Kew.) ; prov. of Semipalatinsk (Bunge 
ex Lehmann, Relig. Bot. n. 611, in Herb. Kew.), also Aryschyr at 
1650-1800 metres (Regel, 1879, It. Turkestan, in Herb. Kew.), and 
north of the desert of Soungaria (Ledebour) ; on the Hunger Steppe 
of the prov. of Akmolinsk ‘(Korshinsky i in Herb. Kew. ), and along 
the banks of the R. Irtysch (Karelin d Kiriloff, 1840, in Herb. 
Kew.) ; and, lastly, in the prov. of Uralsk (Ledebour). It has ne 
been reported from the Tekke-Turkomans District of the Tra 
— an” * ny on the confines of Persia (Sites 
i. p. 601 
In Clarke's shiner vol. 
(i810), ‘the ieeing paldage “refers to this plant :— “Upon and 
near the banks of the Dnieper were the following ee -» Aster 
punctatus, dotted star-wort (see Wildeno 
Syn. Aster dracunculoides Lamk., A. latus Fisch., A. linifolius 
Giildenst., A. punctatus (punctalus) E. D. Clarke, A. strictus 
Wender., ’ Galatea pauciflora Cassini, Galatella desertorum fae & 
, G. dracunculoides Nees, G. pauciflora Nees, G. punctata var. 
dracunculoides Lallem . puncta ta OC. A. Mey., Gelasia peri um 
ss., — pauciflora 
arck’s ution brief description is :—‘‘ Aster foliis lineari- 
bus, integersimis, margine scabris, trinerviis ; Seapets foliosis, 
fas is; semi-flosculosis subquinis.” It was descri m 
ee ‘cultivated i in the Royal Gardens at Versailles. 
us.—Folia lanceolato-linearia, apicem versus sensim 
sie sa basi tantum leviter torta (sed haud omnia), tri- vel uni- 
nervia. Pedicelli subdiphylli vel interdum nudi, bracteis minus-. 
culis. Calathia discoidea, 10-80 florum (ligulis carentibus). 6 
