ASTER CAMPTOSORUS.
Perennial, slender. Stems erect, 4-6 dm. tall, finely ridged, slightly flexuous, green or purplish green, simple or nearly so, glabrous, or very sparingly pubescent near the top ; leaves few, the blades lanceolate, 6-15 cm. long, resembling the leaves of Camptosorus rhizophythis, attenuate from near the base to the finely acute apex, entire, undulate, sometimes crisped, dark green, smoth and lustrous above, paler and hispid beneath with a scat tered pubescence, the lower ones deeply cordate at the rounded ear-like base, the upper ones subcorclate or truncate, petioled; petioles slender, villous, the lower ones nearly as long as the blades, the upper about I as long as the blades; heads usually few ; pedicels angled, bearing minute appressed bracts, scabrous with short, stiff; spine-like hairs; involucres cylindric-campanu late, constricted at the middle (or turbinate in the dry state), 5 mm. high, the bracts linear-subulate, in 4 or 5 series, incurved, with a narrow green midrib and green acute tip; corolla about 6 mm. long; stamens and style glabrous; rays purple, lincar-oblance late, I cm. long, slightly 3-toothed at the apex.
In open woods, in and near the mountains, Georgia and Ala bama. September to October.
A very curious and handsome species on account of the close resemblance of its leaves to those of Camptosorus r/ik:ophyllus. Compared with its nearest relative, Aster Shortzi, the new species is more slender and, in addition to the Camptosorus-like leaves, and the characteristic gradual attenuation from the base to the apex, these organs are smooth, dark green and lustrous above. The involucre of Aster Shortii is campanulate, whereas that of Aster Camptosorus is cylindric-campanulate and constricted at the mid dle; the bracts in the new species are rigid, linear-subulate and incurved, while those of Aster Shortii are rather thin, hardly rigid and simply linear.
Fine specimens were sent to me by Prof. Carl F. Baker from Wright's Mill, five miles south of Auburn, Alabama. They were collected on October 17, 1896. In addition to these I find an old sheet in the Columbia University Herbarium on which are two specimens collected in the mountains of Georgia by Mr. Buckley.