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ASTER* puniceus ; var. demissus. 





Dwarf Blue Aster. 









SYNGENESIA SUPEBFLUA. 



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



Botany, p. 197.) 



ASTER.— SuprA, vol. Z.fol. 183. 





A. puniceus; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis amplectentibus acuminatis medio 

 adpresso-serratis supra scabris, caule hispido patulo-racemoso, ramis 

 inferis racemosis superis simplicibus, periclinii laxi foliolis lineari-subu- 

 latis eequalibus. Nees gen. et sp. Asterecirum, p. 67. 



A. amoenus. Lamarck. 



A. puniceus, Linn, aliorumque. 



A. hispidus. Lamarck. 



*ar. demissus, caule sesquipedali corymboso, floribus coeruleo-violaceis. 



A. puniceus y demissus. Lindl. in £>. C. prodr. vol v. ined. 



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Aster puniceus is one of the commonest and most gene- 

 rally known of all the North American species. Its tall 

 hispid racemose stem will at once distinguish it from others 

 that are generally met with. Accordingly we find, that 

 while endless errors are committed in the determination of 

 the species of this most difficult of all genera, the A. pum- 

 c eus has, with few exceptions, been kept in books unmixed 

 Wl th its neighbours. 



The variety we now represent has long been known in 

 English gardens, but we have not met with it m any 

 foreign collection ; for which reason we hesitate to con- 

 fer it the same as Nees von Esenbeck's variety fl. Its 

 habit is so peculiar, that we formerly took it for a distinct 

 s Pecies; and it was distributed from the Garden of the 



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