320 COMPOSITAE 
tips of the more or less leafy-bracted, ascending branches, forming a narrow gees sear 
r le about 4-6 m ou 
involucre more or less graduate, m. high, the phyllaries narrow-oblon the 
usually spatolate, erect, obtuse to neue ciliolate, glabrous on back, with whitish “cide or oval to 
subrhombic or oblong green tip, the outermost sometimes herbaceous and equaling the inner; rays 
about 25, white to violet, 5-7 m ie 
All — il or meadows, Transition Zones; Okanogan County, Washington, south to Wasco County, Oregon, 
and west of the Cascade dd he ins from the lower Pes River Valley, British Columbia, south to the Wil- 
lamette Valley, Oregon. Type locality: Oregon. July—-A 
16. Aster adscéndens Lindl. Long-leaved Aster. Fig. 5541. 
Aster adscendens Lindl. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 8. 1834. 
Stems slender, 0.3-0.6 m. high, pubescent all around or only in lines eight neeeciae: branched 
bove. Lower leaves narrowly oblanceolate, tapering to the petioliform base others baa 
to linear, all usually entire, often half-clasping, rough-margined, glabrou re ore ess pubes 
cent, thickish; heads about 2.5 c ide, few to many, in a near el or op r 
oa involucre 4-7 mm. high, usually strongly graduate, erect, the phyllaries linear or 
linear-oblong, the outermost posed spatulate, obtuse to acute or the inner acuminate, ciliolate, 
glabrous or Sodeucen t on back; s 22-35, violet or purple, about 8 mm. lon 
Moist or dry soil in various orn ad aah ie Pern and Canadian Zones; mihi Columbia and southeastern 
Wessnston, southward chiefly east of the Cascade Mo ee stele and the Sierr a Ne vada to the pag Bernardino and 
San Gabriel Mountains of southern California; Saska an south to Ut ae and Colorado. the west face of 
the mountains from Jackson County, Oregon, ‘to fae ‘County and southern California, it is represented by a 
densely leafy form —- a rather close cyme and glabrous or pubescent herbage. Type locality: “‘Banks of the 
Sas res wan.” July—Sept 
cage complex. aged Sc aphal up into ill-defined forms. All have strongly graduated involucres and 
a combine: "thd naked inflorescence with ascending branches but are highly variable as to 
calventaie ‘nk leaf-texture and ra abit 
17. Aster occidentalis (Nutt.) Torr. & Gray. Western Mountain Aster. 
Fig. 5542. 
spathulatus Lindl. ex DC. Prod. 5: 231. 1836. Not sf Fy eaenscee Lag. 1832. 
o Tipo. site occidentale Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 1840. 
Aster o€ cidentalis Fo et Fl. N. Amer. 2: 164, ah 
Aster ] tit r. & Gray, op. cit. 503. 1843, 
ster durbrowi Eas S Gat Acad. ITI. 2: 292. 1902. 
Aster misellus Heaps oh “Biol . Soc. Wash. 33: 105. 1920. 
Stems usually 0.5 m. high or ine slender, arising a creeping rhizomes, oe dei below, 
usually pubescent in lines or all around above, at least toward tips of the rather few erectish 
branches. Lower leaves usually persisting: Shiances late fiieny-Obhanceolate ip g to 
petiolif ciliate base, entire or serrulate. gh-margined, thickish; middl pper leaves 
linear-lance ; de, entire, scarcely clasping ~ : : u 
in a nearly naked cym r cymose panicle ; involucre about m. high, not at all to slightly gradu- 
ate, the der he chiefly linear, acute or somewhat Gotusish, “Appitieed, ‘iliolate; rays about 30, 
violet or purple, 6~9 mm. long. 
Mountain aasilow s oa river thickets, Boreal Zone; Sie ee Lege = Tulare County in the Sierra 
Nevada, California, east to Colorado and Idaho. Type loc : “marg y ponds in the Rocky pe 
tains.”” ‘July- ept. 
ter occidentalis var. yosemitanus a oo. peas Amer. Midl. Nat. 29: 467. 1943. (Aster 
adscendens Mogh yosemitanus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am : 191. 1884; A. arg Greene, Leaflets —. Obs. 
Es 200. 6.) Stems slender, lealy to a phe Karol ‘leaves alike, thin, 2-3 cm. long, linear nag and 
gradually’ chien ha pede heads solitary or several, 1. g ‘2 em. broad, the —. linear. Reena Hy wig oosely 
emir 3 she adows, southern Oregon to the Siskiyou region, California, and south ingeg Nevada to 
Tula e Cou Type locality : Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley. A variable aor aL defined “for Specimens are 
to - ‘fous which are evidently ae age with A. adscendens and also ental: ha 
ster occidentalis var. parishii (A. Gray) F. Madrofio 15: nds vinlit Oe er fremonti var. parishi 
A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 192. 1884.) *Pisats heat 3 dm. or more tall, the ons leafy, the leaves aay 
clasping, — aang ag and reduced upward, a —_ leaves oblanceolate: or a shtirt cymose panicle; 
involucres 5-8 high, phyllaries sr sh i near, loosely imbricate, acute, Mou nv meadows of the southern 
California iltihes Phin to the San Pedro Martir in Epc California. Type Joca’ tag a Valley, San Bernardino 
beep a Very close to A. occidentalis var. occidentalis of the Sierra Nevada. Evidently aaa Re with the 
next 
Ast cidentalis var. delectabilis (H. M. Hall) Ferris, Madrofio 15: 128. 1959. re tone delectabilis 
H. M. Hall, Tints, Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 82. 1907.) Plants 1.5—4 dm. high; stems iat the I pode narrowly 
cing 12-20 em. . long, the leaf-bases definitely daiplag? heads solita ary or few, the involucres large, 810 
high, oes ‘phil laries linear, acu cute, loosely _imbricated. Mou ntain me i Al WS, southern Sierra Nevada i 
south to ae oars pee and gon Bern o Mountai pod. & the San Pedro Martir in Lower Californ 
Type ee Mi ll Creek, San Bernardino 3 Mou aka Calif 
‘we 
Aster A. : Fi. N. Am u 
Contr. U. is. Nat. Herb. Pl ‘210. 1913.) Plants 3-5 dm. high, herbage “een to ieaacke diner eous per ulent 
inf 0-1 . lon n deci po the Fagont es ut muc 
Kickistet Comaties south along the eastern fac eo al = —— e ¢ 
and Plumas County, Californie. Occasional s; s from the Sie ge ada as far south as A fen ee 
pear te be this form. Type icalie: Falcon ¥ Valley, Klickitat County, Washington. Collected by Suksdor 
Pucther'’ studies will probably Fn that this sagged hould be removed from A. occidentalis 
from which it differs most markedly in its strong y predaet ge eer 
18. Aster chilénsis Nees. Common California Aster. Fig. 5543. 
Aster chilensis Nees, Gen. & Sp. cai 123. 1832. 
Aster menziesii Lindl. in eik. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 12. 1834. 
