leaves more than a long, tapering into a flattened petiole : 
those of the stem bu half the- size, sessile and almost semiam- 
plexicaul. Corymés large, leafy (leaves small), with copious cap?- 
tula, which are purple. Peduncles and pedicels downy. Invo- 
lucre of many narrow-linear, imbricated, subscariose, purplish, 
sharp scales. Receptacle alveolate and toothed. Florets of the 
ray numerous, in one series. Ovaries and fruit hispid. Pappus 
of rather few bristles. W. J. H. 
Cutt. We raised this Aster from seed in 1849, and it flowered 
in the open ground during the latter part of the past summer. 
It is of a suffruticose habit, which it would evidently maintain if 
kept in the greenhouse or under some kind of protection in 
winter, but in the open ground it has every appearance of as- 
suming the character of a hardy perennial. It is easily increased 
by cuttings of the stems, or by division of the roots. J. S. 
* Fig. 1. Receptacle and part of the involuere. 2. Floret of the ray. 3. Ditto 
of the dise :—magnified. 
