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others nearly uniform, elliptic or lance-elliptic, 1.8-3 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, obtuse or acute, 
apiculate, sessile, nonclasping, entire, firm, hispidulous- oe, stipitate- -glandular = both si cag 
l-nerved and with a pair of basal veins; peduncle 1.5-2.5 cm. lon oe head 2-2.5 cm. wide; 
volucre ee slightly graduate, 6-8 mm. "high : hyllaries ‘anceola te folder: 
ong- a 
cute bac ate 
chartaceous base and shorter or longer, subherbaceous, loose tip, with narro ng rd ate- sng 
eae erent: toward tip, snip en prem ten Pra md sometimes purplish tinged a 
s 8-13, w or s rented s pink, on s 3-nerved, pilose; pappus cone 
somewhat peeing or inner bristles. wilereed @ apically, Nhe: outermost short, setulose 
ocky slopes, Boreal Zone; known only from the vicinity of Mount Je Sages and titibien Coun- 
ties, ot eg ype fobebity : wee sil Valley, Mount Jefferson, Cascade Sonsiuine:: yak 
31. Aster stenoméres A. Gray. Rocky Mountain Aster. Fig. 5556. 
id bigots bss ae roc, Amer. Acad. Ba 209. 1882. 
reene, Pittonia 3: 246. 
Reserblng £ scopul ems numerous, tufted from a woody root, 12-30 cm. high, simple, 
rigid, mo ciate pail bese cake loosely pilose = thinly subtomentoe Basal leaves reduced, 
spatulate, “thie others uniform, linear, "3 cm. long, 1.5-3. m. wide, callou — sone, 
entire, rigid, pale siebai I-nerved, scabrous- tiapidhitoed especially along margin; p e38c 
long, pubescent like the stem; head 3-5 cm. wide; involucre hemispheric, 8-13 mm. a tk 
seriate, somewhat graduate, il La dompiece ae or pea ies EAL, uN erect, pilose and 
hee ities greenish or so es purplish midline and subscarious margin; rays about 12, 
iolet sth mo . long; achenes Tietete: -glandular and sparsely eet outer pappus ore ig 
0. 5-1 m p 
Dry ntai pes, Canadian and Hudsonian Zones; southeastern British Columbia and northeastern 
Washingt ie aged y ra rough central and northern Idaho to adjacent Montana. Type locality: ‘‘Rocky Mountains 
of Montana and Idaho.”’ June—Sept. 
5554. Aster paucicapitatus 
5555. Aster gormanii 
