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SYNGENESIA, SUPERFLUA. 153. 
swamps.—Perennial. Stems pubescent, terete and sim-.- 
ple, many from the same root, 2 or 3 feet high. Leaf 15. 
to.20 lines long, 8 to 12 broad, on the upper side pulve- 
tulently pubescent, beneath partly villous, reticulatel 
veined. Corymb partly unéqual, few-flowered. Calix m 8 
‘most simple, very short, as in the 2 following species. 
. Radial florets somewhat: ‘ochroleucous, about 10; tubular 
_ florets the same colour. Anthers not bisetose. Pappus. 
- veddish, double, interior less scabreus and rigid than in 
any preceding species, but similar to the following. The. 
whole plant is bitterish to the taste. This species after. 
flowering sends up infertile stems. with: broader leaves. . 
: cere noveboracensis, of Herb. Muhl. 
chumihs. Aster humilis, Willd. Hort. Berol. t: 67. 2. 
séenifdien, Willd. .2. ingrmus, Mich. Oss. Rays about 8; 
calix only about the length of the seed. Pappus double;- 
seed at first pubescent, at length nearly smooth and = 
a A species scarcely distinct froin the eeeeing 
6. amygdalina. Aster amygdalinus. Flowe: owers yellowish 
site as in the preceding, rays 10 or 12, 
tall, and leafy to the summit; branches corymbosely fas- 
tigiate, many-flowered. Pappus double. Anthets in this. 
and the preceding not setose at the base. . et 
This genus, or subgenus, appears to be peculiar to 
North America. After a conshal esatninstion of near 50 
species of Aster, the above, tly remarkable in ha- 
the foreign spagiess ; I find a double. sim Aster chi- 
nensis, but a} uoph «long scnes-of ou it is not 
now possible to. conceive itsoriginal aspect, still it may 
very properly be considered as admissible into this genus. 
559. ASTER. L. (Star-wort.) 
Calix imbricated, the lower scales_partly fo-. 
liaceous and often spreading. Radial florets. 
ly more than 10, rarely fewer, violace- 
, or 
white. Receptacle naked. Pappus sim- 
ple, pilose. 
Herbaceous, seldom shrubby; ieinics entire; flowers fas- 
tigiate or paniculate. Seed more or less pubescent, rare- 
‘smooth; pappus of many rays, pilose, nineties So 
sometimes coloured. (The smaller fiowered _— 
3 t aseries so intimat po- 
Srmorphous, as, to elude the. botanist in bis tempts to 
