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Aster fruticulosus. Shrubby Star- 

 wort. 



Class and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex, Corolla radii plures 

 10. Calycis imbricati squamae inferiores patulae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Aster fruticulosus; fruticosus, pedunculis sub-solitariis uni- 

 floris foliis linearibus fasciculatis bis terve longioribus. 



Aster fruticulosus ; fruticosus, foliis linearibus obtusius- 

 culis glabris punctatis, pedunculis unifloris elongatis, 

 calycibus imbricatis discum aequantibus. Willd. Sp. 

 PI 3. p. 2018. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 49. Jacq. 

 Fragm. p. 9. t. 9. /. 4. 



Aster fruticulosus ; fruticosus, foliis linearibus punctatis, 

 pedunculis unifloris niidis. Syst. Nat. 3. p. 552. 



Aster fruticosus ; foliis linearibus punctatis glabris, caly- 

 cibus imbricatis, caule fruticoso. Sp. PL 1225. Thunb. 

 Prodr. 159. 



Aster africanus frutescens, foliis angustis et plerumque 

 congestis. Commel. Hort. 2. p. 53. t. 27. 



Aster maritimus, fruticosus, hyssopi foliis confertis, flore 

 albo. Pluk. Mant. 29. t. 340. / 19. 



Aster hyssopifolius ; fruticosus, foliis sparsis linearibus 

 pubescentibus, pedunculis subaggregatis terminalibus, 

 ramis adscendentibus tomentosis. Berg. Cap. 287/ 



It appears to us that the plant which has usually been 

 known in our Nurseries under the name of Aster fruticu- 

 losus is the angustifoUus of Jacquin, having scattered, not 

 aggregate, leaves; but Jacquin's, Commelin's, and perhaps 

 Plukenet's figures above referred to, seem to belong to the 



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