(€ 2942 ) 
ASTER SALSUGINOSUS, SALT-PLAIN MIcHAEL- 
MAS Daltsy. 
Class and Order. 
SyncEengsia SupEeRFLva. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum nudum. Pappus simplex. | Cor. radii 
Plures 10. Involueré imbricati sguame inferiores (nonnun- 
quam) patule. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Aster * salsuginosus ; caule uni pauci-floro, foliis lanceo- 
latis acutis subintegerrimis venosis inferioribus in pe- 
tiolum longe attenuatis, reliquis ‘sessilibus, involucri 
Squamis linearibus acutis pubescentibus subsquamosis 
disco vix duplo, radio plus triplo longioribus. 
Aster salsuginosus. Richard. in Frankl. \st Journ. App. 
ed. 2. p. 32. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 527. 
[eee 
Descr. From a woody and fibrous perennial root spring 
ohe or more erect, simple, striated, pubescent, and purplis 
stems, about a foot high, leafy. Leaves mostly lanceolate, 
‘cute, those of the stem sessile, gradually smaller upwards, 
the lower ones often inclining to obovate, attenuated at the 
into a long footstalk, entire, or more or less toothed, 
slabrous, especially on the upper surface, below often more 
oF less hairy. Flowers solitary, or two or three at the ex- 
tremity of the stem in luxuriant plants, large and showy. 
volucre small in proportion to the size of the eh 
purp 
cane 
* So named from the Star-shaped flowers. 
