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26. Aster perélegans Nels. & Mae Elegant Aster. Fig. 5551. 
Eucephalus — Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil, Soc. IT. 7: 298 
Aster elegans Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 159. 1841. Not wie 1803. 
Aster perelegans Nels. lien Bot. Gaz. 56: 477. 1913. 
Stems several, erect from a woody caudex, roots fibrous, up to 65 cm. high, usually corymbosely 
branched in the inflorescenc e, sl aes eros c baicey incurved- ee Ae tea leafy. Bas epson re- 
anit sale like, the others nearly uniform, elliptic 3 ee linear, 2.5-6 cm. lon eis . wide, 
rely te rounded at the sessile fate case his pidulous-clclate, finely roughish- 
hispidulous on both sides , l-nerved and with a pair of weaker veins arisin g at bas eads 2~2.8c¢ 
i ing a rt 
€; o ma ry ets me 
mes panicle; involucre narrowly campanulate, 5—7-seriate, strongly graduate, 8-10 mm. high, 
the te gC appressed, ovate to (in the a oe -oblong, acute, oat chartaceous-indurate, 
narrowly scarious-margined, deep purple above, with strong green costa, densely villous-ciliate, 
heat ages or isa eS = pack the inner ones somewhat d aba odaing rays 6-11, usually about 
8, violet 1 achenes short-pilose, 5-nerved ; poppus graduate, the inner- 
nee Sarin ‘slightly dilated ‘apically, the avsiaie- much aeeqshigh setulos 
mountain slopes, Arid Transition and Canadian Zone of northe ane n Oregon eastwar 
Dry d to 
WAS woe MORERNE, and Utah; also Nebraska. Type loomlicy: crating Cae yi the Blue atten of the west.” 
July—Sep 
5548. Aster siskiyouensis 5550. Aster ledophyllus 
§549. Aster vialis 5551. Aster perelegans 
