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ASTER* eminens ; var. virgineus. 

 Pure-white Lofty Aster, 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord. Com posit ;e Juss. {Introduction to the Jiatural system of 

 Botany, p. 197.) 



A. foliis lanceolato-acuminatis subamplectentibus inferioribus in medio argute 

 serratis supra in ambitu late scabris, cauie paniculato patulo, ramis apice 

 simpliciter corymbosis, periclinii turbinati subsequalis foliolis lineari- 

 lanceolatis patulis. Nees ab Esenbeck gen. et sp. Ast. p. 87. 



A. junceus. Hort. Kew. 3. 204, S^c. 



A. longifolius. Lam. enc. meth. 1. 306. 



Var. virgineus ; calathiis albis, foliis latiusculis supra magis scabris. Nees 

 I.e. 



A. virgineus. Nees synops. Ast. p. 22. 



A. albus. Hort. angl. 



An extremely common and consequently very variable 

 North American herbaceous plant, found by the sides of 

 canals and in marshes from New York to Carolina ; flowering 

 from September to October. 



Its varieties are so dissimilar, that one would be inclined 

 to believe some of them distinct species, if it were not for 

 the narrow, spreading leaves of the involucrum, which have 

 a very peculiar appearance, and which distinctly point them 

 out. In the length of their leaves, in the colour of their 

 flowers, and in their general stature, they are exceedingly 

 unlike, some being as much as 6 or 7 feet high, others not 

 more than 3 feet ; some having remarkably long, narrow, 

 recurved leaves, others straight and rather short ones ; the 



Suprk, fol. 1487. 



