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ASTER* eminens. 



Curve-leaved Aster. 



SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord. Composit* Juss. 

 Botany, p. 197.) 



ASTER.— Supra, vol. Z.fol 



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A. eminens ; foliis lanceolato-acuminatis subamplectentibus inferioribus in 

 medio argute serratis supra in ambitu lat& scabris, caule paniculato 

 patulo, ramis apice simpliciter corymbosis, periclinii turbinati subsequalis 

 foliolis lineari-lanceolatis patulis. Nees gen. ast. 87. 



A. junceus. Hort. Kew. 3. 204. 



A. longifolius. Lam. enc. meth. 1. 306. n. 33. 



A. eminens. Willd. en. hort. Berol. 2. 886. 



A. mutabilis. Hort. Kew. 3. 205. 



A. lsevigatus. Pursh.fl. am. 2. 553. 



A. virgineus. Nees synops. ast. p. 22. 



A very common North American Aster, found in marshes 

 and by the sides of ditches, from New York to Carolina, 

 according to Pursh ; and also in Canada, as we learn from 

 Dr. Hooker's Herbarium. 



Scarcely any species of this most variable genus is less 

 constant in its appearance than the present ; and it may be 

 said that the state now represented is ill calculated to give 

 a correct notion of it. We are, however, disposed to con- 

 sider this the most extreme and genuine form, from which 

 all others are to be considered deviations. In a great many 

 cases the leaves are wider and serrated ; in others those 

 that subtend the flowers are shorter; sometimes the stem is 

 hairy, sometimes smooth ; in many the involucrum is less 



* See fol. 1487. 



