. 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. Aster dumosus L. Bushy Aster. Rice-button Aster. Fig. 4339- Aster dumosus L. Sp. PI. 873. 1753. Aster coridifolius Michx.; Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 2028. 1804. As'er dumosus strictior T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 128. 1841. Aster dumosus coridifolius T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 128. 1841. Glabrous or nearly so throughout, rather stiff and viscid, usually paniculately branc
. 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. Aster dumosus L. Bushy Aster. Rice-button Aster. Fig. 4339- Aster dumosus L. Sp. PI. 873. 1753. Aster coridifolius Michx.; Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 2028. 1804. As'er dumosus strictior T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 128. 1841. Aster dumosus coridifolius T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 128. 1841. Glabrous or nearly so throughout, rather stiff and viscid, usually paniculately branched, i°-3° high. Leaves firm, those of the stem linear or linear-lan- ceolate, entire, acute, or obtusish, 1/-3' long, iV's" wide, roughish-margined, often reflexed, those of the branches very numerous, small arid bract-like, the basal ones spatulate, dentate; heads 4"-7" broad, terminating the slender minutely leafy branches and branchlets, usually numerous; involucre broadly campanulate, its bracts linear-subulate, obtuse or acutish, appressed, imbricated in about 4 series, green-tipped; rays 15-30, blue to pale violet or white, 2"-4" long; pappus white; achenes pubescent. Sandy soil, Massachusetts to western New York, Ontario, Florida, Louisiana and Missouri. Aster Gravesii Burgess, known only from Water- ford, Conn., has oblong-lanceolate leaves, acuminate at both ends, the larger 8" wide, the rays bright purple. 59. Aster salicifolius Lam. Willow Aster. Fig. 4340. Aster salicifolius Lam. Encycl. 1: 306. 1783. Aster subasper Lindl. Comp. Bot. Mag. I : 97. 1835. Aster stenophyllus Lindl. DC. Prodr. 5 : 242. 1836. Aster salicifolius subasper A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 2, 188. 1884. Stem rather slender, paniculately much branched, usually very leafy, 2°-5° high, glabrous, roughish or somewhat pubescent above. Leaves firm, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, roughish or rough-margined, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed and sessile
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