. 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. 26. Aster novae-angliae L. New England Aster. Fig. 4307. Aster novae-angliae L. Sp. PI. 875. 1753. A. roseus Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris, Ed. 3, 401. 1812. Stem stout, hispid pubescent, corymbosely branched above, 2°^8° high, very leafy. Leaves lanceolate, entire, rather thin, acute, pubescent, 2'-s' long, 6"-i2" wide, clasping the stem by an auriculate or
. 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. 26. Aster novae-angliae L. New England Aster. Fig. 4307. Aster novae-angliae L. Sp. PI. 875. 1753. A. roseus Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris, Ed. 3, 401. 1812. Stem stout, hispid pubescent, corymbosely branched above, 2°^8° high, very leafy. Leaves lanceolate, entire, rather thin, acute, pubescent, 2'-s' long, 6"-i2" wide, clasping the stem by an auriculate or broadly cordate base; heads nu- merous, l'-2' broad, clustered at the ends of the branches; involucre hemispheric, its bracts linear- subulate, somewhat unequal, green, spreading, pubescent and more or less glandular, viscid; rays 40-50, linear, s"-8" long, violet-purple, rarely pink or red, or white; achenes pubes- cent; pappus reddish-white. In fields and along swamps, Quebec to Saskatche- wan, South Carolina, Alabama, Kansas and Colo- rado. One of the most beautiful of the genus. 27. Aster oblongifolius Nutt. Aromatic Aster. Fig. 4308. Aster oblongifolius Nutt. Gen. 2: 156. 1818. Aster oblongifolius var. rigidulus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: Part 2, 179. 1884. Aster Kumleinii Fries; Rydb. Fl. Colo. 354. 1906. Stem much branched, hirsute-pubescent, i°-2i° high, the branches divaricate or ascending. Leaves crowded, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, sessile by a broad, partly clasping base, usually rigid, en- tire, acute or mucronulate at the apex, rough or hispidulous on both sides, rough-margined, those of the stem i'-2' long, ;-^' wide, those of the branches gradually smaller; heads corymbose, nearly 1' broad; involucre hemispheric, its bracts much imbricated, glandular, aromatic, linear or linear-oblong, the acute green tips spreading; rays 20-30, violet-purple, rarely rose-pink, 3"-S" long; pappus light brown; achenes canescent. On prairies a
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