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ASTER* éminens; var. virgineus. 
Pure-white Lofty Aster. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. Composite Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 197.) 
A. foliis lanceolato-acuminatis subamplectentibus inferioribus in medio argutê 
serratis supra in ambitu latê scabris, caule paniculato patulo, ramis apice 
simpliciter corymbosis, periclinii turbinati subeegualis foliolis lineari- 
lanceolatis patulis. Nees ab Esenbeck gen. et sp. Ast. p. 87. 
A.junceus. Hort. Kew. 3. 204, &c. 
A. longifolius. Lam. enc. méth. 1. 306. 
Var. virgineus ; calathiis albis, foliis latiusculis supra magis scabris. Nees 
lc. 
A. virgineus. Nees synops. Ast. p. 22. 
A. albus. Hort. angl. 
An extremely common and consequently very variable 
North American herbaceous plant, found by the sides of 
canals and in marshes from New York to Carolina ; flowering 
from September to October. 
Its varieties are so dissimilar, that one would be inclined 
to believe some of them distinct species, if it were not for 
the narrow, spreading leaves of the involucrum, which have 
a very peculiar appearance, and which distinctly point them 
out. In the length of their leaves, in the colour of their 
flowers, and in their general stature, they are exceedingly 
unlike, some being as much as 6 or 7 feet high, others not 
more than 3 feet; some having remarkably long, narrow, 
recurved leaves, others straight and rather short ones; the 
* Supra, fol. 1487. 
