upper half veiny, tapering gradually into a winged foot- 
stalk, which half embraces the stem with its base. Upwards 
upon the stem, the leaves gradually become smaller, less 
stalked and serrated, till at length upon the numerous 
branches of the panicle, where they are very numerous, they 
are lanceolate, with a semiamplexicaul, cordate base, and 
are scarcely half an inch long. Flowers moderately large, 
solitary at the extremities of the more elongated leafletted 
and slender branches. Involucre ovate, attenuated at the 
base, imbricated with linear-lanceolate, upright, rather lax 
scales. Corollas of the ray purple; those of the disk, yellow. 
Receptacle papillose. 
We received this Aster at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
from Mr. Nurratt. I have dried specimens of the same 
from the Rev. Mr. Scuweinrrz, and I believe it to be the 
plant of the American Botanists. Whether or not it is so of 
Wittpenow, who is the original authority for the species, I 
cannot say. His description is too imperfect to enable me 
to form a judgment. It is well characterized by its large 
panicles with many handsome flowers; its large wing- 
stalked lower leaves; and by the great number of small 
leaves, or they might almost be called bracteas, upon the 
branches of the panicle. 
It flowers, like most of the Genus, late in the autumn, and 
deserves a place in every collection of hardy herbaceous 
plants. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Receptacle and Involucre cut through ver- 
tically. 3. Central Floret.— Magnified. g 
