Aster. COMPOSITE. 147 



bearing fewer and larger heads. Lindl. — Apparently described from in- 

 digenous specimens ; most probably one of the larger forms of A. miser. 



79. A. reticulatus (Pursh) : canescently tomentose throughout ; stem 

 branching above, the branches corymbose-racemose at the summit ; pedun- 

 cles nearly leafless ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, sessile, acute at each end, 

 with revolute margins, beneath reticulate-veined, tripli-nerved ; involucre 

 rather loosely inibricated ; the scales very acute. Pursh, jl. 2. p. 548. 



In dry swamps of Carolina and Georgia. H Aug.-Oct. — About 3 feet 

 high : flowers middle-sized : rays and florets white. Pursh. — This plant has 

 not been identified by any succeeding botanist ; and notwithstanding the 

 accustomed v. v. of Pursh, we believe that he never travelled in Carolina 

 and Georgia. It probably belongs to some other genus. 



80. A. ciliatus (Walt.) : leaves lanceolate, entire, cihate ; stem 3 feet 

 high; heads large (purple), somewhat solitary; peduncles leafy. Walt. Car. 

 p. 209. 



South Carolina, Walter. — The subsequent A. ciliatus of Willdenow is 

 only a form of A. multiflorus; but this is apparently altogether a different 

 species. 



A. leucantliemus of Rafinesque (" Leaves semi-cuneiform, incised-serrated ; flowers 

 terminal; crown semi-10-flosculous." Raf. in mcd. rcpos. {hex. 2) 5. jj. 359. Vir- 

 ginia.) is doubtless not the A. leucanthemos, Desf. Necs, (^c. 



t t Species described frotn garden specimens {some of them of doubtful ori- 

 gin), which we have not identijied with native plants. 



81. A. auritus (Lindl.): stem racemose-compound; the branches rigid, 

 densely racemose at the summit; leaves oblong, acuminate, cordate and 

 clasping at the base, smooth above, pubescent beneath ; scales of the slightly 

 imbricated involucre linear, acuminate, glandular, as also the branchlets. 

 Lindl. ! in DC. prodr. 5. p. 232. 



"North America? Cultivated, but rarely, in the English gardens. Near 

 A. patentissimus." DC — Apparently a cultivated state of A. patens var. 

 phlogifolius. 



82. A. preecox {WxWA.) : stem racemose ; the branches bearing few heads, 

 naked at the base ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrate with spreading teeth, 

 acuminate, tapering into an adnate [winged] petiole, glabrous, the margins 

 scabrous, ciliate towards the base ; the radical ones ovate and petioled ; scales 

 of the involucre lanceolate, acute, loose, nearly equal, erect; achenia pubes- 

 cent. Necs. (char. & descr.) — " Willd. emim.. hort. Ber. suppl. p. 58" ; 

 Link, enum. 2. p. 328 ; Necs, Ast. p. 63 ; DC. prodr. 5. p. 235. 



North America (?) : described from a plant cultivated in the Berlin garden. 

 July-Aug. — We have gathered specimens of this apparently well-marked 

 species in the Berlin botanic garden ; but we suspect it is not of American 

 origin. The A. precox of Lindley (in HooTc. jl. Bar.- Am.) bears considera- 

 ble resemblance to it, but belongs, in our opinion, to a diflerent species. — 

 The A. praecox and the two following species belong to the section Petiolati 

 of Nees : ' Leaves rather broad, serrate ; the radical and lower cauline ta- 

 pering into a petiole ; the upper cauline also narrowed at the base, but ses- 

 sile.' The cauline leaves of this species are 3 to 4 inches long, an inch or 

 less in widlli, acuminate or attenuate at each end, serrate with unequal and 

 re?narkabiy spreading subulate-pointed teeth, and ciliate witli very short and 

 scattered rougli hairs along the contracted base. The heads are about as 

 large as in A. acuminatus; the scales of the involucre barely in a double 



