. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. COMPOSITAE. Vol. III. 16. Aster Shortii Hook. Short's Aster. Fig. 4297. Aster Shortii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 9. 1834. Stem roughish or smooth, slender, panicu- lately branched above, 2°-4° high. Leaves thick, glabrous or nearly so above, finely and sparingly pubescent beneath, the lower and basal ones ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, acute or acum
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. COMPOSITAE. Vol. III. 16. Aster Shortii Hook. Short's Aster. Fig. 4297. Aster Shortii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 9. 1834. Stem roughish or smooth, slender, panicu- lately branched above, 2°-4° high. Leaves thick, glabrous or nearly so above, finely and sparingly pubescent beneath, the lower and basal ones ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, acute or acuminate at the apex, slightly dentate, or entire, 2'-6' long, l'-3' wide, borne on slender naked petioles; upper leaves lanceolate, entire, sessile or short-peti- oled, not cordate, those of the branches small and bract-like; heads numerous, s"-7" high; involucre broadly campanulate, its bracts lin- ear, acute, puberulent, imbricated in several series, their green tips appressed; rays 10-15, linear, violet-blue, 5'-6" long; pappus tawny. On banks and along edges of woods, western Pennsylvania to Virginia, Georgia, Illinois, Wis- consin and Tennessee. 17. Aster azureus Lindl. Sky-blue Aster. Fig. 4298. Aster azureus Lindl.; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 98. t83S. A. capillaceus Burgess; Small, Fl. U. S. 1215. 1903- Stem slender, stiff, rough, branched above, l°-4° high. Leaves thick, usually all entire, sca- brous on both sides, the lower and basal ones cordate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, acute, acuminate, or obtusish, 2'-6' long, with slender, naked, often pubescent petioles; upper leaves short-petioled or sessile, lanceolate or linear, those of the branches reduced to small appressed bracts; heads numerous, 4"-S" high; involucre turbinate, its bracts glabrous, linear- oblong, abruptly acute, imbricated in several series, their green tips appressed; rays 10-20, bright blue, 3 '-4" long; pappus tawny. On prairies and along
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