Tab. 7825. 

 ASTER Tradescanti. 



Native of Eastern N. America. 



Nat. Ord. CoMPOSiTiE. — Tribe Asteroide*. 

 GenuH Aster, Linn.; {Benth. & Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 271.) 



Aster (Enaster) Tradescanti ; herba glaberrima, 2-4-pedalia, ramoasima, 

 ramis erectis v. ascendentibns foliosis, foliis 2-3 poll, lonpis sessilibua 

 linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis obtusis v. subacutis integerrimis v. medio 

 pauci-serratis saturate viridibus costatis, nervis pancis obscuris, mar- 

 ginibus pcaberulia, capituUs perplurirais ad |-1 poll, diatn. racemositn v. 

 corymbosim dispositis sessilibus v. breviter pedicellatis, involacri tur- 

 binati hirtelli ad ^ poll, longi bracteis plurieeriatis coriaceis appressis 

 lineari-lanceolatis acutis inappendiculatia rigidis viridibus, radiis albis v. 

 rarius parpnreo tinctis ^-\ poll, longis, floribus disci aureis, achsoniis 

 ad iV poll- longis obovato-oblongis compressis lasvibus pubernlis. 



A. Tradescanti, Linn. Hort. Clijf. p. 408 ; <Sp. PI. p. 876 {non herb, et excl, 

 Syn. Hort. Ups.) Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. iii. p. 204 var. floribus albis; ed. II. 

 vol. V. p. til. Nees, Gen. & Sp. Ast. p. 103 {non Syn. Ast.) Torr. & Oray 

 Fl. N. Am. partim. A. Gray, in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xvii. p. 166; Man. 

 Bot. N. Un. St. ed. V. (1880) p. 232; Synopt. Fl. Am., Gamopet. p. 187. 

 Chapm. Fl. S. Un. States, p. 2i i3. 



A. artemisiasfolius, Pair. Encycl. Suppl. vol. i. p. 500. 



A. fragilis, Willd. 8p. PI. vol. iii. p. 2051 (non Bot. Beg.), 



A. leucanthemua, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. p. 102; Poir. I.e. 



A. miser. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. T. vol. iii. p. 206 {non Linn.) var./. albis. 



A. parviflorua, Kees. Gen. Sp. Ast. p. 99. 



A. tenuifolius, var. Torr. & Gr. I.e. 132 {partim, non alior.). 



A. virginianns parvis floribus albis Tradescanti, Ifomon, PL Hist. Univ. Oxon. 

 vol. iii. (1699) p. 121, sect. 7, t. 21, f. 42. 



The historic interest of the original Michaelmas Daisy, 

 together with the fact that (except by the rude cut in 

 Morison's " Historia ") it has not hitherto been figured, 

 under either its own name or that of any of its synonyms, 

 are sufficient reasons for paying it the tribute of a plate 

 in the Botanical Magazine, To these reasons may be 

 added the difficulty of recognizing it without a figure, 

 for, according to Asa Gray, it is one of three species 

 which are "seemingly confluent in a series." The 

 other members of this series are A. paniadatiis. Lam., a 

 polymorphous species with acuminate, sharply toothed or 

 serrated leaves, looser, larger, paniculate bands and longer 



Mai;cu 1st, 1902. 



