A 



of North America, according to Willde 



we are, however 

 than garden specimens 



aware that any one has 



that it mav be either 



v. Esenbeck suspects, some 



ty of A. Novi Belg 



other 



Nees 

 i. or 



perhaps the offspring of that species and A. lsevigatus 

 some of those allied to it. 



We find this under two different forms in our gardens 



one of which is about 



feet 



h, with sharp-pointed 

 leaves, and pale purple flowers, and agrees with the plant 



cultivated under the name of A. adulterin 



the Berl 



Garde 



The other, which 



much dwarfer plant, ex- 



ely compact in its habit, with short rigid branches 



obtuse leaves, and pale 



flowers, is that h 



figured 



known by the name of A. ccespitosus. 



From this last we must confess our inability to distin- 

 guish our friend Von Esenbeck's genus Symphyotrichum, 

 with a sight of the original specimen of which we have 

 been favoured by that learned Botanist. If it were not for 

 a total absence of hairs from the stem of Symphyotrichum, 

 we should suppose it and the plant now figured to be 

 identical. As to the character upon which the supposed 

 genus is founded, namely, the separation of the pappus 

 from the achenia by an annular base, we find this so 

 common a circumstance in the very ripe fruit of many 

 species, that we cannot attach any importance to it, even 

 as a specific, far less a generic, distinction. 



A hardy perennial, flowering in September. It increases 





freely by division of its roots, and 

 soil or situation. 



grow 



almost any 



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