338 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
var. ianthinus (Burgess) Fernald. — {A. irmihimis 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Open woods; occasional. Florida; Stockhridge; West Stock- 
bridge; New Marlboro; Alford; Mt. Washington. 
A. multiflorus Ait. — Dry soil; occasional. Williamstown; 
Lancsboro (Walters); New Marlboro (Walters); Egremont; 
Sheffield. 
var. exiguus Fernald. — Dry hillside, West Stockbridge. 
A. novae-angliae L. New England Aster. — Thickets in low 
ground and ill-drained hillsides; common in the valley, rare on the 
plateau. October Mt., Washington (altitude 1850 feet). 
forma roseus (Desf.), comb. nov. — With the type; occasional. 
Stockbridge; West Stockbridge. 
A. novi-belgii L. — Common along the flood-plain of the Deerfield 
River, Florida. 
A. paniculatus Lam. — Roadside thickets in low ground and wet 
meadows; common in the valley, infrequent on the plateau (Washing- 
ton, altitude 1850 feet). 
var. acutidens Burgess. — Low ground; occasional. Lenox; 
Stockbridge; Alford. 
var. bellidiflorus (Willd.) Burgess. — With the type; frequent. 
var. simplex (Willd.) Burgess. — W'ith the type; frequent. 
var. cinerascens Fernald. — Open woods. New Marlboro (W^alters). 
Specimen in F. Walters' herbarium. 
A. polyphyllus Willd.— {A. Faxoni 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Dry banks and low meadows in calcareous soil; occasional. Stock- 
bridge; West Stockbridge. 
A. prenanthoides Muhl. — Banks of streams and low ground; 
locally common along the Green River, Williamstown, the Green 
River, Egremont, and in wet fields in the northern part of Lenox. 
Freciuent elsewhere in the valley. 
A. puniceus L. — Sw^amps, wet meadows, borders of marshes and 
roadside ditches; common. Summit of Greylock, 3400 feet. 
var. compactus Fernald. — A form closely approaching this variety 
but not the typical eastern Massachusetts form is occasional in the 
valley. Pittsfield; Stockbridge; West Stockbridge; Sheffield. 
var. demissus Lindl. — Low ground; frequent in the valley. Alti- 
tude 1450 feet, Washington. 
var. firmus (Nees) T. & G. — Low ground; frequent. 
var. lucidulus Gray. — Wet meadows; frequent in the valley. 
