1915] Fernald,— Some new or unrecorded Compositae 13 
Phil. Anal. Univ. Chil. Ixxxvii. 430 (1894). But this apparently 
local plant of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland has the 
leaves long-attenuate, the pedicels copiously setulose, and the involu- 
cres only 3-3.5 mm. high, and seems to be a small-headed extreme 
nearest allied to var. Nuttallii (Greene) Fernald. 
longis 3-5 foliis parvis instructis involucro hemisphaerico 7-8 mm. 
alto, bracteis valde 2-3-seriatis herbaceis anguste linearibus 0.7-1 mm, 
latis apice subulatis; ligulis violaceis 1-1.3 cm. longis anguste lineari- 
bus; pappi setis 1-seriatis barbellulatis; achaeniis setosis. 
Stem solitary, slender, 4 dm. high, glabrous: leaves oblanceolate, 
narrowed to both ends, acuminate, at base subcordate, scabrous above, 
glabrous beneath, the margin remotely serrate; the median 6-8 cm. 
long, 1-1.2 em. wide: pedicels few (3-5) monocephalous, 5-9 cm. 
long, provided with 3-5 small leaves: involucre hemispherical, 7-8 
mm. high; the bracts obviously 2-3-seriate, herbaceous, narrowly 
linear, 0.7-1 mm. wide, subulate at apex: ligules violet, 1-1.3 cm. long, 
narrowly linear: pappus-bristles 1-seriate, minutely barbellate: achenes 
setose.— QuEBEC: near Quatchouan Falls, Lake St. John, August 19, 
1904, W. F. Wight, no. 228 (yen in Gray Herb.). 
Related to A. junceus Ait., but with larger heads, much more 
herbaceous but subulate-tipped involucral bracts, and broader coarsely 
serrate leaves. In its involucre exactly matching the western A. 
Fremonti Gray, but clearly distinct in its nearly uniform and serrate 
cauline leaves. 
AsTER Foutaceus Lindl. In extreme eastern British America and 
northern New England the difficulties of clearly distinguishing the 
large-headed Asters of the section Vulgares (A. novi-belgii L., A. 
longifolius Lam., etc.) are further complicated by the abundance of 
@ plant which in some characters differs from the ordinarily recog- 
nized eastern Asters. This heretofore little recognized eastern plant 
abounds in the river-valleys and on the damp mountain slopes of 
ewfoundland, southern Labrador, and eastern Quebec, extending 
Westward to Portneuf County, Quebec and southward to northern 
. sine and northern New Hampshire. Its chief characters separating 
it from A. novi-belgii and A. longifolius are its very few large heads 
(involucre, excluding the enlarged outer bracts, 7-9 mm. high) chiefly 
