1915] = Fernald,— Some new or unrecorded Compositae 17 
Stem solitary, 4 dm. high, subflexuous, glabrous: leaves coriaceous, 
linear-lanceolate, attenuate to both ends, the base subcordate, the 
margin entire scabrous; the median 1.2-1.6 dm. long, 1 cm. wide: 
branches strongly oe pedicels mostly 2-5 cm. long, 1-headed, 
leafless or with 1 or 2 leaves: involucre hemispherical, 1 em. igh: 
the bracts senna fitbricated | in ei series, oblong, 1.5-2 mm. wide, 
hard or somewhat leathery, yellowish, subherbaceous at tip: ligules 
violet, about 1.5 em. long: pappus 1-seriate, the setae barbellate: 
achenes setose.— QUEBEC: river banks and grassy slopes, Jupiter 
River, Anticosti, July 20, 1880, J. Macoun, no. 6 (ryPE in Gray Herb., 
distributed as A. paniculatus). 
A puzzling plant, in its monocephalous elongate pedicels simulat- 
ing A. foliaceus but with very slender elongate leathery leaves like 
those of extreme A. longifolius. In the involucre, with its very broad 
firm bracts strongly imbricated, unlike any Eastern Aster, but some- 
what suggesting some extreme specimens referred to the North- 
western A. Douglasii Lindl. In habit and involucre A. anticostensis 
Strongly suggests the subarctic A. spathulatus Lindl., but that little- 
known plant has spatulate-oblanceolate leaves and the involucre less 
imbricated. When better known the two may be found to have 
closer affinities than are at present evident. 
ASTER PUNICEUS L., var. perlongus, n, var., caule tenui, hispido 
4-5.5dm alto; i-lanceo. 
latis vel -oblanceolatis acuminato-attenuatis basi valde cordato- 
amplexicaulibus minute serratis vel subintegris, mediis 1-2 dm. 
longis 1.2-2.2 ¢ m. latis; ramis brevibus; involucri bracteis lineari- 
attenuatis Haag 
Stem slender, hispid, 4-5.5 dm. high: leaves thin, somewhat 
lustrous, glabrous on both sides, linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, 
acuminate-attenuate, strongly cordate-clasping at base, minutely 
Serrate or subentire; the median 1-2 dm. long, 1.2-2.2 em. wide: 
ran short: involucre with loose linear-attenuate bracts.— 
EBEC: springy spots in coniferous forest along “Low’s Trail,” 
altitude about 675 m., western base of Table-top Mountain, G 
aspé 
Hoy? August 14, 1906, Fernald & Collins, no. 737 (type in Gray 
A very distinct extreme in its exceedingly slender and thin almost 
entire leaves, 
ERIGERON HYSssoPrFoLtus Michx., var. villicaulis, n. var., humilis 
5-15 em. altus vix caespitosus; caulibus simplicibus vel ee 
Pedicellisque dense villosis; foliis plus minusve villosis longe ciliatis. 
» 5-15 em. high, scarcely caespitose: the simple or subsimple 
stems and the pedicels diracky vilcas : leaves more or less villous, 
