. 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 102nd meridian. Aster lutescens (Lindl.) T. & G. is a very interesting race with light yellow rays, known fromIllinois, Wisconsin and Saskatchewan. Yellow rays are otherwise almost or quite unknown in thegenus Aster as here limited. 73. Aster tenuifolius L. Perennial Salt-marsh Aster. Fig. 4354. Aster tenuifolius L. Sp. PI. 873. flexuosus Nutt. Gen. 2: 154. 1818. Perennial, glabro
. 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 102nd meridian. Aster lutescens (Lindl.) T. & G. is a very interesting race with light yellow rays, known fromIllinois, Wisconsin and Saskatchewan. Yellow rays are otherwise almost or quite unknown in thegenus Aster as here limited. 73. Aster tenuifolius L. Perennial Salt-marsh Aster. Fig. 4354. Aster tenuifolius L. Sp. PI. 873. flexuosus Nutt. Gen. 2: 154. 1818. Perennial, glabrous and fleshy; stem flexuous,striate, at least when dry, sparingly and looselybranched, i°-2° high. Stem leaves linear, entire,acute, sessile or partly clasping at the base, thelowest lanceolate-linear, 2-6 long, 2-2, wide,those of the branches minute, bract-like, ap-pressed; heads rather few, 6-i2 broad, termi-nating the branches; involucre turbinate, about4 high, its bracts lanceolate, acuminate or mu-cronate, glabrous, green on the back or tip, ap-pressed, imbricated in about 5 series, the outershorter; rays numerous, longer than the pappus,pale purple or nearly white; pappus tawny;achenes hispid-pubescen
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