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indicate tJieir character thus : Astei^ Herveyi Gr. var. intermedia 

 Pk. Branchlets and peduncles glandular-hairy; heads large; 

 rays violet ; involucral scales glandular, erect, all or all except 

 the longer and more pointed inner ones, green or with green 

 tips ; pappus white or whitish ; leaves rather thick and rough, 

 ovate or lanceolate, the lower on naked petioles and more or less 

 cordate, the upper sessile, the radical leaves large, broadly ovate- 

 cordate, rough, on long naked petioles. 



Apparently intermediate between typical A, Herveyi and 

 A. macrojphyllus. With this it has probably been confused, but 

 from it it may be separated by the larger heads, color of the 

 rays and pappus and glandular peduncles. 



Aster corymbosus Ait. 

 A pale, violet-rayed form with white pappus was obtained at 

 Shokan. In general appearance it is quite like ordinary forms, 

 but the color of the rays and of the pappus indicates a slight 

 variation toward A. Herveyi. 



Aster cordifolms L. var. laevigatus Porter. 



This variety, well-marked and easily recognized, though not 



indicated in the Manual, extends northward to Shokan, in the 



Catskill mountains. 



Aster laevis L. 



West Albany. September. A form having rays nearly white. 

 This is apparently the same or nearly the same as the white-rayed 

 form found at Fort Edward by Dr. Yandenburg and mentioned 

 in the Flora of ]^orth America. The color of the rays becomes 

 a little more bluish-tinted in drying. 



Aster diffusus Ait. var. variifolius n. var. 



Heads scattered, mostly on bracted peduncles one-half to one 

 inch long ; branches horizontally spreading or slightly ascending ; 

 leaves sharply serrate with prominent teeth, varying from very 

 long and narrowly lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, the 

 broadest ones abruptly narrowed towards the base as if into a 

 widely margined petiole. 



Sandlake and Catskill mountains. September. 



In the Manual this species is described as having the leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the lower somewhat serrate in 



