1597 





ASTER* cdrdifdlius. 



Heart-leaved Aster. 



SYNGENESIA POLY G AMI A SUPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord. Composite Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany, p. 197.) 



§ Corymbifene Juss. Asterese Cassini. 



ASTER.Supra, vol. 3.fol. 183 



Sect. 3. Genuini. 



foliolis 



magisminusve membranaceis , membranacea parte oasin rer» M » «"»«- 

 et totam ferh basin, in Us quae fortius sibi incumbunt, occupante. Mt- 

 nanthium alveolatum, alveolorum marginibus dentatts. Achenia vei 

 glabra, vel sparsim puberula, nunquam pubescentid dension obtecta. 



Pappus pluriserialis , seaber. , . 



Heterophylli. Folia radicalia saltern, vel et inferiora caults, bast cor- 

 data, v. rarius rotundata, in petiolum distinctum abrupt^ transeuntia. 



Nees infr. cit. . . . . .. • 



A. cordifolius ; foliis cordatis serratis petiolatis supra scabris subtus pilosis, 

 caule racemoso-paniculato, ramis paucifoliis laxis, penclinio arete imbri- 



cato. Nees qen. et sv. Aster, p. 52. umu 



A. cordifolius. Linn. sp. pi. 1229. Ait. Kew. 3. 207. f-P^'.^f' 



Sp. PI. 3. 2036. ex parte. Pursh. Fl. Am. sept. 2. 552. Nutt. hen. 



Am. 2. 156. 



A species sufficiently common in our Gardens, where 



usually confounded with Aster paniculatus, from wmcnr 



distinguishable by the leaves being much more cordate 



and usually covered more or less with harsh hairs, eunerwa 

 both sides or at least on the upper, by its flowering .branches 

 having scarcely any true leaves on them, and by tne nowen, 

 being about one-third smaller. We do not however dis- 

 cover the distinction, pointed out by Professor JNees v. 



-- »« me aisiincnon, poiuieu ^i ~j , f 



Esenbeck, in the involucrum of this being closely, and ot 

 the other laxly, imbricated. 



* See fol. 1487. 



