754 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Common in dry woods throughout the State. 

 Fl. — Late June to early August. 



Middle District.— 'Pztm.\n%A3.\e., New Egypt, Arney's Mt. (S), Haddon- 

 field (S), Swedesboro. 



Pine Barrens. — New Lisbon, Clementon, Cedar Brook, Winslow (S), In- 

 skip, Landisville. 



Coast Strip. — Ship Bottom (L), Atlantic City (S). 



Cape Moji.— Cape May (S). 



ASTER L. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Basal and some of the lower stert^ leaves cordate and slender petioled. 

 b. None of the stem leaves cordate clasping. 



c. Rays white, plant not glandular. Aster divaricatus, p. 755 



cc. Rays violet, plant glandular. A. macrophyllus, p. 755 



ccc. Rays blue or purple, plant not glandular. A. cordif alius, p. 755 



66. Stem leaves, or some of them, cordate, clasping, rays violet or pale 



blue. A. undulatus, p. 756 



aa. No cordate and petioled leaves, but some at least of the stem leaves with 



more or less cordate or auricled clasping bases. 



6. Stem rough or hirsute pubescent. 



c. Leaves entire, oblong, linear or lanceolate. 



d. Stem rough, leaves oblong to oval. A. patens, p. 756 



dd. Stem hirsute, leaves lanceolate, clasping by an auriculate 

 base. A. novce-anglicB, p. 756 



cc. Leaves, at least the lower, serrate, stem hispid pubescent. 



A. puniceus, p. 757 

 66. Stem glabrous. 



c. Leaves sharply serrate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate sessile. 



A. Icevis, p. 757 

 cc. Leave's entire or nearly so. A. novi-belgii, p. 757 



aaa. Leaves not at all clasping. 



6. Leaves silvery canescent on both sides, heads in a narrow raceme. 



A. concolor, p. 757 

 66. Leaves not silvery canescent. 



c. Rays blue, pink or purple, head more than 20 mm. broad (except 

 gracilis), 

 d. Tips of the involucral bracts widely spreading. 



e. Heads 25 mm. broad. A. spectabilis, p. 758 



ee. Heads 12-18 mm. broad. A. gracilis, p. 758 



dd. Tips of the involucral bracts erect and appressed; heads 

 25-35 mm. broad. 

 e. Bracts coriaceous, oblong-spatulate, or oblong, leaves ses- 

 sile, oblong lanceolate, rough above, somewhat pubescent 

 beneath, sharply serrate, broad. A. radula, p. 759 



ee. Bracts linear, subulate, membranaceous, acute; leaves ses- 

 sile, membranaceous, oblong lanceolate, puberulent, den- 

 tate or entire. A. nemoralis, p. 759 



