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22. Aster brickellioides Greene. Brickellbush Aster or Rayless Leafy Aster. 
Fig. 5547 
Sericocarpus tomentellus eg Sere 1: 283. 1889. Not Aster tomentellus Hook. & Arn. 1833. 
Aster brickellioides Greene, op. = rage 
Fabien on Greene op. cit 
Eas oj Celis a Bi po 157.3931. 
eevetth 6-9 dm a me WE tomentose or tomentulose, glabrescent, leafy, sometimes much 
branched. Leaves mostly spreading or deflexed, oval or elliptic ao to linear-oblong, scm. 
ng, 1-2 cm. se ki acute, the broader leaves pedacire apiculate, roun at z e sessile ye soni 
sometimes narrowly hue dered A subcoriaceous, glabrous or ata: rcbawe canescent~ 
or cinereous-tomentose and sometimes glabrescent in age, seit Ceaetia’y pi of the Sanches 
greatly reduced, mostly linear-subulate or linear-lanceolate; heads numerous, cymose-clustered 
at tips of branches in a usually elongate-oblong scnpuang involucre turbinate, about 6-seriate, 
strongly graduate, 7-9 mm. high, the phyllaries linear or ovate to Py eetagtans or oblong, acute 
or the inner obtusish, with indurate-chartaceous, crt margined base, the short poishige easy 
tips of the outer spreading, the tips of the inner erect, not herbaceous, pilose- ciliate at least above, 
i dorsally, sometimes glabrescent, the inner sometimes purplis Taye : light violet, 
ut 6-8 mm. long; a es compre see, 4 sparsely pilose to essentially glabrous; pappus tawny, 
the inner pappus- -bristles somewhat fattened apicatly, the outermost short, setul 
Dry ridges and rocky slopes. Arid Transition Zone; poche, ahr ir southwestern jem and adjacent 
California. Type locality: near Waldo, Josephine County, Oregon. July~Oct. 
5544 5546. Aster pi 
5547 
. Aster bernardinus 
5545. Aster falcatus . Aster it ER 
