Engelmann, George Dec. 14, 1842 [3] (seq. 72)

Aster tenuifolius well characterized by the bellshaped involucrum, common in
many forms,
but never smooth, always rough hairy; in the prairies 1-2 feet high, leaves wide;
in corners of [fences?] 4-5 feet high, leaves very narrow etc. — Achenia
pubescent;
A. carneus common; a beautiful species. Achenia glabriuscula
A. oblongifolius; brinks of precipices on the Mississippi; Prairies; here always
graveolens!
A. novae angliae
A. heterogenus
Aster nemoralis. my garden specimens are certainly a Galatella, and
[congenus?]
and very near
Galatella hyssopifolia; but they may be some other species; I have never found
it
spontaneous
A. [pharnaceoides?] not here, but in prairies in North Illinois very common,
already 50 or 100
miles from here.
Aster angustus; does not s specimen in Nicollets collection make 45 belong
here?
A. divaricatus. Sandy banks of Arkansas river
A. linifolius 2 figured on the other sheet, Texas

Double 50
Pof. Asa Gray
[postmark]
St LOUIS
DEC
14
Mo.
Cambridge
Massachusetts

[Lia]tris mucronata Dec — certainly the true form with abruptly acumminate
scales, and very long
spike. I have from Texas & Louisianna; but my lanceolate, which I have sent
you
is perhaps the same which you mention as your specimen from Dr Hale &
Drummond
Liatris lanceolate, glabra, radice tuberosa, multicipite, caule folioso, foliis
linearibus basi
dilatatis, semiamplexicaulibus, apice callosis obtusiusculus, punoticulatis;
species
densis brevibus capitulis subsessilibus adpressis, 4-5 floris, squamis
parvis adpresses (sub-octonis) purpureis eciliatis lanceolatis acuminatis,
subulatis
pappo brevioribus; exterioribus brevisisimis acheniis glabriusculis pappus
plumosum
aequantibus — Sandy wet Prairies, Houston April & Mai
Different from L. mucronata by the short spike, larger heads (5-7 [lines?] long)
[lanecoluta?]
scales much larger, smooth or a little scabrous achenia which is not shorter
than the pappus but equal to it; also by the [di?] cuticle of the base of leaves
which is only on the lowest leaves of L. mucronata; by the callous rather
obtuse tip;
leaves of L. mucronata are very acute — [token?] of flowering. Probably by far
the earliest flowering Liatris!

[loss] work out the Asclepiadaceae now! I wish you would send [?] or
[loss] [cortheum?] bark, which I [contr?] to you; I have several splendid Texas
only