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Aster elmeri Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 645. 1902. Not A. elmeri Greene, 1891. 
Aster wattii Piper, loc. cit. 
Aster eto Re us Sheldon, op. = 30: 310, 1903 
Aster ok anus Piper, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, 29: 101. 1916. 
Aster pio hl oe "Hear s, Otava Nat: Shs 
Aster grayt Suksd. Uieritnds ks 1927 
Slender, about 1 m. aaa or less, with erect or ascending branches; stem asc in lines. 
Leaves rough-margined, practically glabrous, the lowest oblanceolate, narrowed to a winged 
petiolar base, serrate, the middle ones lanceolate, 43 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wie: slightty or not 
clasping, usually serrate above the middle; inflorescence cymose-panicled, heads ma 
5 . high, graduate to subequal, loosely imbricate, the phyllaries pred 
e or the outer oa go with green, obtuse or acute, often loose, herbaceous tips; 
20- "30, violet, about 1 cm. lon 
In moist places Hig? ie re a and stream banks, mostly in the Humid Transition Zone; coastal Alaska 
< Fa ao 8 south, ~ par west the Cascade Mountains, in hee erg, ee and Oregon and along ome 
n California from De i Norte Epon mz o Mo sini Coun’ ty; also occ rring less abunda: i east of the 
= Sacatatns. ral gi tet and e ag Ome Type locality: ton cit in insulis Multgrave,”’ Atike: 
une—Oct. 
ai — —— and apparently intergrading with other species such as A. foliosus and _ chilensis rs 
cis A, grayt Suksd., from Skamania and Klickitat ta ant Washington, and adjacent Oregon 
cca py soft pubescence; in the plants adjacent to the seashore ‘the outer phyllaries are petits oon 
spatulate with loose herbaceous tips. 
14. Aster eatonii Sig Gray) Howell. Eaton’s Aster. Fig. 5539. 
Aster foliaceus var. eatoni A. Gray, Syn Zen guar: 12; 194. 1884. 
Aster eatoniit Howell, Fl. N.W. Amer. ae 
Aster oreganus of authors, not Nut 
Stem 1 m. high or less, escen usually in lines below the inflorescence, with numerous, 
erect or ascending branches. Leav beret! lance-linear or linear, rather thin, with the midvein 
prominent beneath, 5-13 cm. long, m. wide, acuminate, se essile with a so mewhat truncate 
base, usually entire, rough-mar ned, olten rough above; inact : 3c cm. wile. very numerous 
n an oblong te i 
n re qu 1 ate, 5-9 mm. igl 
aceous bracts, the hg or te thin, “3 anceolate or spatulate to (inner) linear, acute, often 
ciliolate, glabrous on back, the her ous tips of the sid oes longer than the pale base rad 
spreading ; rays about 20-35, Tavender or violet, about 
Moist ground along streams, mostly Arid Transitio = ee sou aoe British cles and Alberta Loe 
to California mostly east of the Cascade Tixatainn pre east to Idaho, Montan Wyoming south to Nevada 
and northern New Mexico; in Contes in the mountains a ee Siskiyou re: ils a a ity Hoare and ae 
unty south to Inyo Count ty. Type locality: Virginia Mountains, Nevada. Collected by Watson. July—Sept. 
15. Ke hallii A. ~: Hall’s Aster. Fig. 5540. 
Aster hallii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am 
Aster Rieciae Sheldon, ce. Torrey Club 30: . 1903. 
A ster chilensis subsp. hallii Cronquist, Amer. Midl, Nat. 29: 462. 1943. 
Slender, ers 1 m, high or = = meal erect branches; stem sparsely pubescent all 
around, at least above ote, linear, 5-7 ¢ ong, 4-8 mm. wide, sessile, entire, rough-margined, 
depkity, elena abate. glabrous beneath ; seas small, 2 cm. wide, subracemose to cymose toward 
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