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wort; 10. A. ieniiifolhis,Vine-\ciiyed Starworl; 11. J. Ericoidcs, Heath- 

 leaved iStarworl; 12. yl. dtonosus, Bushy SUirworl; 13. A. concolor^ 

 Single-stalked Starworl; 14. A. divarlcatus, Divaricate Starwort; 

 15. A. Novi-Bi'Igil, New-Holland Starwort; 16. A. pmiiculatus, Pa- 

 nicled Starwort; 17. A. fruticosus. Shrubby Starwort. In this nu- 

 merous genus there are several other species equally deserving the 

 attention of the cultivator. 



The first is an elegant annual plant, rising in height from eighteen 

 inches to two feel; the stem is creel, sliff, furrowed, and as thick as 

 the little finger, putting out long bending branches from top to bot- 

 tom. The leaves next the ground and at the origin of the branches 

 are large, and resendjlc those of (-ommon Chcnopodiinn : those on the 

 branches arc much smaller, and the upper ones narrow and very imi- 

 tirc: the tiowcrs are the largest and handsomest of any of the species 

 in this genus: the disk yellow, at first fiat, then convex ; the floscules 

 of the ray are broad and long, scarcely notched at the end. 



There are varieties of this plant with single white flowers, single 

 blue fiowers, single purple fiowers, single red fiowers: Avith double 

 white flowers, double blue flowers, double red fiowers, and with va- 

 riegated blue and white flowers. 



The second species has radical leaves three or four inches long, 

 like those of the willow, from green inclining to brown, with small 

 scattered serratures. Among these come out round, smooth, woodv, 

 brownish stems, clolhed with similar leaves, only shorter; they are 

 elegantly divided into many slender, hard branches, two or three feet 

 higli, adorned with abundance of very small white flowers during the 

 months of September and October. According to some, the disk is 

 purple. The ray of the corolla is first white, and afterwards purplish. 

 It is a native of Virginia. • 



The third sort has the stems growing in large clusters from the 

 root, each of them branching at the top into eight or ten peduncles, 

 each terminated by a single large flower, having blue rays, with a 

 yellow disk. It fiowers in August or September, and in mild seasons 

 will often continue till the middle of November. It grows naturally 

 in Italy. 



