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27. Aster aan (A. Gray) Blake. Klickitat Aster. Fig. 5552. 
coer: sugetmenes ¥ var. oie ns A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 200. 1884. 
eene, Dittonia $5. 
Euce phal us glaucescens cai op. cit. 
Eucephalus glaucophyllus Piper, Contr. oe Nat, Herb. = 570. 1906. 
Aster glaucophyllus Frye & — Northwest Fl. 385. 19 
Aster serrulatus Frye igg, loc. cit. 
Aster glaucescens Blake, eindoce 30: 278. 1928. 
Stems several from a stout caudex, up to 80 cm. high, erect and corymbosely branched above, 
slender, striate, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, teal fy throu ghout. Lo — leaves eigen scale- 
ifor i . long, 4-15 mm. wi 
i cum 
herbaceous tip, carinately 1-ribbed, is wha . ‘landular “puberulous or subglabrous, obscurely 
ach ciliate ; rays usually about 13, purple, 1-1.2 ¢ ong; achenes appressed- bareig, pappus 
brownish, almost double, the i — Fae py “iilated anivally, the oe uch shorter, setulose. 
te slopes, Arid Transitio ; region around Mount Adams, pakine and ciaea oa Washing- 
ton. Type locality: “Mount eo {Mount Adams], Washington. July—O 
28. Aster —— (D. C. Eaton) A. Gray. Engelmann’s Aster. Fig. 5553. 
Aster elegans var pig es Eaton, — a 144. 1871. 
Aster ineait Gra . N. Amer. 1? 
Eucephalus engelmannit “il pace 3254. 
veral fro woody roo’ to 1.5 m. high, astern | branched in the inflorescence, 
sparsely pi one or near mete glabrous te puberulous aon Lo phe pea scale-like, the 
others nearly uniform, elliptic to oblong, aeabee &h oval or a cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, 
acute or acuminate, rounded or narrow the sessile ia RS ing bas a ntire or ne early so 
en 
sal veins 
ew to many, .5cm Getcha: solitary or F aatenet a ia of the often elongate branches, ot a 
rather short, rounded cyme or cymose panicle, the bracts narrowly lanceolate or subulate ; 
volucre kee: ge coer eee ink itzondly graduate, 7-10 mm. high, outermost ghyitaties 
i i e base a tte 
on ay 
white ” tesem some ate urple, 1-1.7 cm. ong; achenes pporeapes pilose: 
pappus notre te sg Bale bein tles eres enlarged apically, the outermost setu lose. 
Open Saga Canadian and Hudsonian Zones; Alberta to Wem e and Nevada, and British Columbia south- 
ward in the Cascade Sager of Washingtan’ "aloo rarely oc gg at high elevations in the Siskiyou Moun- 
i ; is! ty a 
here appear to be variants of Aster jesesh ius rather than A. engelmannii. The leaves are smaller and clothe the 
stem more closely, the rays if present at all are pernte, and the outer phyllaries are less attenuate and more ap- 
pressed. Type locality: not definitely stated. June— 
29. Aster paucicapitatus Robinson. Olympic Aster. Fig. 5554. 
Aster engelmannti var. Ht tatus Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 176. 1891 
Aster paucicapitatus R tag t. 29: 329. 1894. 
Eucephalus paucicapitatus G ie fot 3:56. 1896. 
Stem ral, d woody 25 le, eaded, 
isiee alecele ond i thinly spreading siege: leafy. ‘Lowest leaves ure. ale- like, the pi G38 
uniform, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 1.5-3.4 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, acute or ponte so§ narrowed 
at the sessile or subsessile base, ital pubescent like wes stm bd ‘ciliolate, I-nerved and with a 
pair of weaker lateral veins, mostly erect ; cz e on pedun cles 1-7 em. long; in- 
— hemis pheric-campanulate, saieare or nat a about 3. ks subequa a ig th, Fo graduate, 
7-10 mm. high, the phyllaries linear-lanc eolate, acuminate, omnes Sadciular and sparsely 
silsaulee. ciliate above, with pale, shining-chartaceous pe and shorter or longer, se ge r rather 
loose, herbaceous tip, be outer often oon herbaceous and narrowly te argined ; rays 12-18, 
white turning pink, 8-14 mm or achenes flattened, 4-ribbed, Si eet tice pict Bo 78 
rather soft, graduate, brownish w 
- nt mo s and dry slopes, Boreal io ‘Sale only from the type locality, Olympic Mountains, Washington. 
Aug.— 
30. Aster gormanii (Piper) Blake. Gorman’s Aster. Fig. 5555. 
penance ii Piper, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29: 101. 1916 
ster gormanii Blake; Rhodora 
Stem eral from a perennial creeping rootstock, ascending, 11- 15 cm. high, leafy Ceongh- 
out, p aonb or ager ah l-headed, sparsely stipitate-glandular. Lowest leaves scale-like, the 
