. 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. Genus 31. THISTLE FAMILY. 427 55. Aster vimineus Lam. Small White Aster. Fig. 4336. Aster vimineus Lam. Encycl. 1: 306. 1783. Aster foliolosus Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 203. 1789. Aster Tradescanti T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 1841. Not L. 1753. Aster vimineus foliolosus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 2 186. 1884. Glabrous or nearly so throughout; stem slender, divergen
. 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. Genus 31. THISTLE FAMILY. 427 55. Aster vimineus Lam. Small White Aster. Fig. 4336. Aster vimineus Lam. Encycl. 1: 306. 1783. Aster foliolosus Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 203. 1789. Aster Tradescanti T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 1841. Not L. 1753. Aster vimineus foliolosus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 2 186. 1884. Glabrous or nearly so throughout; stem slender, divergently branched, 2°-s° high. Stem leaves linear- lanceolate, entire, or with a few low teeth, z's' long, 2"-4" wide, acuminate at the apex, narrowed to a sessile base, those of the branches much smaller ; heads very numerous, small, 3"-$" broad, 2"-3" high, generally densely racemose-secund, sometimes subpaniculate, short-peduncled; involucre broadly turbinate, its bracts linear, acute or acutish, imbri- cated in about 3 series, green-tipped, appressed; rays numerous, about 2" long, white to purplish; pappus white; achenes minutely pubescent. In moist soil, Ontario to Florida, west to Minnesota and Arkansas. Aster racemosus Ell., with smaller heads, the leaves all very small, of the Southeastern States, apparently occurs in extreme southern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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