146 LEAFLETS. 



as large, but herbage green, oaly sparingly Mspidulous-rougli- 

 ened : leaves from oblanceolate in the lowest to elliptic-oblong 

 and oval in the upper, 3 inches long, the largest 1} inches broad, 

 all thin, glabrous except as to the more or less obvious hispid 

 ciliolation of the whole margin : stem rather freely branched 

 at summit, all the branches clothed up to the heads with large 

 sessile oval hispid-ciliolate bracts 1 to 1 J inches long : heads 

 large, though smaller, than in E. macranthus ; bracts of invo- 

 lucre equal, not at all hairy, viscid-puberulent : rays light- 

 violet or bluish. 



Santa Eita Mountain, New Mexico, 9 Oct. 1904, 0. B. Met- 

 calfe n. 1469. 



AsTBE OKTHOPHTLLUS. Plants in broad,patches from a con- 

 nected system of slender horizontal rootstocks ; stems 1 foot 

 high, erect or decumbent, corymbose-panicled, notably leafy 

 and the foliage remarkably straight and erect ; lowest leaves 

 narrowly oblanceolate, the cauline lance-linear and linear, all 

 entire and all but the very lowest acutish, green and glabrous 

 on both faces, the margins beset with short inflexed hairs : heads 

 above middle size; involucres broadly campanulate to hemi- 

 spherical; bracts imbricated, appressed, spatulate-linear and 

 linear, the outer obtuse, inner acute, their green tips elliptical, 

 nearly glabrous, somewhat ciliolate : rays bluish. 



Low grassy lands along the river at Gunnison, Colo., 23 July, 

 1900, C. P. Baker, n. 570 ; and nn. 545, 688 and 820 may all be 

 forms of the same species akin to A. adscendens. 



ASTBB WooTOKii. A. hesperius var. Wootonii, Greene, Bull. 

 Torr. Club. xxv. 119. Mr. Baker's n. 817 from near Gunnison 

 represents well that of Mr. Wooton's distribution from New 

 Mexico, and I judge the form worthy of specific rank. 



Aster lonchophtllus. Stout stems erect, 2 feet high, red- 

 purple, thinly white-puberulent, sparsely leafy up to the con- 

 tracted subcorymbose panicle : basal leaves not seen, those of 

 the stem 3 or 4 inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 sessile, the lower by a spatulate base, all of firm texture, green 

 and glabrous on both faces, 1-nerved, the margin barely scaber- 

 ulous : heads of middle size ; involucres campanulate, bracts 



