Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

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Report of the State Botanist.
indicate their character thus : Aster Herveyi Gr. var. intermedia
Pk. Branchlets and peduncles glandular-hairy ; heads large
rays violet ; involucral scales glandular, erect, all or all except
the Ioniser and more pointed inner ones, green or with green
tips ; pappus white or whitish ; leaves rather thick and rough,
ovate or lanceolate, the lower on naked petioles and more or less
cordate, the upper sessile, the radical leaves large, broadly ovate-
cordate, rough, on long naked petioles.
Apparently intermediate l)etween typical A. Herveyi and
A. macrophyllus. With this it has probably been confused, but
from it it may be separated b}' the larger heads, color of the
rays and pappus and glandular peduncles.
Aster corymbosus Alt.
A pale, violet-rayed form with white pappus was obtained at
Shokan. In general appearance it is quite like ordinary forms,
but the color of the rays and of the pappus indicates a slight
variation toward A. Herveyi.
Aster cordifolius L. var, laevigatas Porter.
This variety, well-marked and easily recognized, though not
indicated in the Manual, extends northward to Shokan, in the
Catskill mountains.
Aster laevis L.
West Albany. Septemljer. A form having rays nearly white.
This is apparently the same or nearly the same as the white-rayed
form found at Fort Edward l^y Dr. Vanden'burg and mentioned
in the Flora of Xorth America. The color of the rays becomes
a little more bluish-tinted in drying.
Aster diffusus Ait. var. variifolius n. oar.
Heads scattered, mostl}' on bracted peduncles one-half to one
inch long; branches horizontally spreading or slightly ascending;
leaves sharply serrate with prominent teeth, varying from very
long and narrowly lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, the
broadest ones abruptly narrowed towards the base as if into a
widely margined petiole.
Sandlake and Catskill mountains. September.
In the Manual this species is described as having the leaves
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the lower somewhat serrate in
;