Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . e branchesbeing either short with one or two heads, or elongated andbearing; several heads. The heads, as a rule, are rather be distinguished by the fact that in A. Novi-Belgii the innerbracts are of unequal length and somewhat forms of A. longifolius without foliaceous bracts maysometimes be confused with A. paniculatus, but the headsof A. longifolius are usually larger, and in pure A. panicu-latus the bracts of the involucre are shorter and A. junceus, too, the plant may best be distingu
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . e branchesbeing either short with one or two heads, or elongated andbearing; several heads. The heads, as a rule, are rather be distinguished by the fact that in A. Novi-Belgii the innerbracts are of unequal length and somewhat forms of A. longifolius without foliaceous bracts maysometimes be confused with A. paniculatus, but the headsof A. longifolius are usually larger, and in pure A. panicu-latus the bracts of the involucre are shorter and A. junceus, too, the plant may best be distinguishedby the fact that in A. junceus the involucral bracts aredefinitely of two or three lengths, as well as by the lowerhabit, and thicker usually narrower and strongly scabrousleaves of the latter species. The specimen from which Mr. Faxon has made thedrawing on page 507 was collected at Fort Fairfield,Maine, where, in the thickets and on the gravelly banks ofthe Aroostook River, the plant appears in great abundance. Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Merrill L. Fig. 72 —Dog-tooth Violets on Mount Ranier.—See page 504. smaller than in Aster Novi-Belgii, though in some few-flowered specimens they are fully one and a half inchesacross. The involucre is four or five lines high, composedof loosely one or two seriate approximately equal linearbracts with acute or long-acuminate herbaceous tips, andfrequently there is an outer series of lanceolate foliaceousoracts. The rays are from three to seven lines long, vary-ing in color from pure white through pink to deep blue. As already suggested, this plant tends to intergrade withat least three species, Aster Novi-Belgii, A. paniculatus andA. junceus. From all these species A. longifolius maybedistinguished by its involucre of loose and essentially equalbracts. Forms with the outer bracts foliaceous, however,strongly simulate A. Novi-Belgii. These may generally Cultural Department. Mexican Laolias. ELLIA ANCEPS and its variet
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