322 COMPOSITAE 
County, California, the type locality ; also, specimens approaching this form have been collected in salt marshes 
along the coast in Humboldt and M 
ster chilensis var. sonoménsis fiteciens} loses, loc. cit. (Aster sonomensis Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 180. 
1894.) Plants 3 3.5 dm. high, acd eri rather vg sens ion leaves oblong, the stem-leaves reduced, lanceo- 
late; inflorescence a cymose, leafy-bract anicle, the heads and solitary at the ends of the branches. Marshes 
at northern nd of San Wosmciaen i. Colitemta, Sonoma pect Napa Counties, and in similar situations at the 
southern end in Santa oul our ae peal: “open plains of the Sonoma Valley. 
Aster chile fee loc. Plants 1 high, glabr arly s y leafy, the 
leaves eal: acetate or gt ape danceotate, ity spreading; inflorescence evith Welety divacscate. pat Bee atl the 
leafy bracts ‘somewhat a than so nit leaves, the heads few. Along watercourses, a eg of er 
and Tuolumne Counties, and in Sac and San Joaquin Counties, California. Type ocality: lower Sac 
paces os a ae 
er chilensis var. invenistus (Greene) peieatt, Ae cit. (Aster jacentstes Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 179. 
1894)" "Plants stout, Pa to 6 _ high, herbage scabro short-hirsute; lea anceolate, the lower stem-leaves 
——— tulat -~7 cm. lo ong; infloveacente deena ewes ed in an rant pr panicle. Described by 
approximate this form bat vary in pubesc scence from n arly g jabrous to short-hirsute and have few to many 
heads in the inflorescenc hav te gee coll goto d at various loca lities in the Taner Coast Ranges from Siskiyou County 
south to Sonoma Connty, and the Sierra Nevada foothills as far south as Tulare County. 
19. Aster bernardinus H. M. Hall. San Bernardino Aster. Fig. 5544. 
Aster bernardinus H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 79. 1907 
syeet deserticola J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 56: 36. 1918. 
Erect perennial 3-10 dm. high, densely cinereous throughout, rarely somewhat glabrate, stems 
1 to seseral from a woody root, densely leafy, the internodes short, simple below, the leaves early- 
deciduous, branched above. Leaves 3 cm. long, mm. wide, sessile, Meas to ‘linear-lanceolate ; 
onl * Boe tl short-branched, leafy- bracted racemes or an elong: ated narrow pan icle with the 
heads congested on the branchlets; involucres 5-6 igh; phyllaries strongly 
celeaee. pihorins otters to point glabrate, phish n-tipped, with the argins white-chartaceous on 
ciliate, the outermos engi oe _ or rounded, the inner scutes rays 30-35, purple, 6-10 m 
long ; achenes canescent, the ondid.! 
oa me and drainage aie os er Sonoran Zone; Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties south 
San a “ awoag OB rma , reariig Re a ge _ ‘the oss cat rt | in Tes cen and San Beroardins 
Counties. Type 1 vic Ber iy 
dane safiatgians Parish, Bot. Baz. ny ps "1904, Slendet rigid, sh ict te 3 Na erennial about 
high; Jealiens below at flow we i igh os the branchlets of the in Hp ae pio clothed with linear acute 
eaflets about 1 cm. long and longe internodes; branchlets widely divaricate, . long, the heads 
wolitar +7; soaseidines 2: Hy the tips of Aa: ice, phyllaries strongly graduate, ‘eoalll? aoe aiins rgined below; 
pappus copious. Known only from the type Sag 5 5336) collected in dam p meadows, anent 900 feet altitude, 
San Bernardino Valley, San Bernardino County, California, collected October 37573903. 
20. Aster falcatus var. crassulus (Rydb.) Cronquist. Little Gray Aster. 
Fig. 5545. 
Aster adsurgens Greene, Pittonia 4: 216. 
Aster ihe as Rydb. Bull. Torrey — - 304. eo 
Aster ssulus Blak . one USN b. 25: 560. 1925: 
Aster falcatus var. crassulus Pc Ball. ices a 74: 144. 1947. 
Stems usually 0.5 m. high or less with well-de stats — jo es, often much branched 
at resse 
Leaves linear, 3-6 cm. lon mm. wide, firm, en vitae: cuspidu rity ile. subclasping, usually 
hes much reduced ads 1-1.5 
r fe) 
high, cealigite: the phsares Pla cblong i seat 6 r the outer usually spatulate, with a strongly 
indurate, whitish base and a rhombic (or e inner paves io Be thick-herbaceous, mucronulate, 
0 acute, tees loose ds hispidous: = usually pubescent dorsally; rays 5 22-30, white or 
ard Volek ti 3g 5-8 mm. long. 
Dry open places, Arid Bo iice Zone; eastern Washington and Oregon east to Saskatchewan and Colorado 
south to Utah, bere and New Mexico. ey locality: La Veta, Colorado. Aug.—Oct. 
21. Aster pansus (Blake) Cronquist. Heath-like Aster. Fig. 5546. 
— rag var. pansus Blake, Rhodora vag et Me 
ster onquist, Leaflets West. Bot. 6: 45. 
Pesci about 0.6 m. high, i saloedt ew from a short rhizome or woody caudex; stems 
clustered, strigose or in ours mostly with spreading-hirsute or hispidulous hairs. Leaves deciduous 
below, linear, 2-7 cm. long, 1-6 mm. wide, obtus caine bag vi apiculate, erg rigid, rough-margined, 
strigillose, those of the ececher crowded, abruptly reduced; heads small, usually nume d 
racemosely arranged on the arching branches on sn a minutely spreading-bracted branchlets, the 
disk 4-6 mm. high; involucre about 4 mm. high, graduate, the outermost phyllaries usually squar- 
rose and — the others mostly linear, with indurate whitish base ior abrupt, more or less 
tip allo 
wn 
—_— 
— 
Tr , olten ' 
mucr. omlate; rays 12-20, iess commonly si api = rs mm. ig achenes pu 
* Usually in dry open places, Arid Transition ritish Columbia south to eastern 
Washi ale ortheastern Oregon and ener poet 0 s Calerada ay Wines. Type locality: Ellens- 
burg, frat tosgalg Aug.—Oct. 
Aster columbianus U.S. Herb. 210. 1913. (Aster multiflorus var. columbianus 
Blake, Rhodora 30: 227, nd ) en rake been eacoued by Cronguist that this rarely occurring, violet- rayed i 
—- of hybrid origin, having been derived from A. compestris and A. pansus. Type locality: Waitsburg, Walla Wa’ Ma 
