ASTER amellus. 

 Italian aster. 



Class and Order. — Syxgexesia Polygamia Super flu a 

 Syn. Aster Amellus. Hortus Keivensis, vol. 5, page 54. 



Root fibrous — stem erect, branched, sometimes two feet high — leaves sessile, 

 alternate, ovate lanceolate, obtuse — margins undulate. Flowers pur- 

 ple, corymbose, on short peduncles ; calyx imbricated — radiated florets, 

 linear, obtuse, furnished with a style only — florets of the disk fertile 

 containing both stamens and pistils. 



Few autumnal plants are more deserving- of cultivation than the 

 Aster Amellus — the beauty of the flower, its moderately low growth, 

 and late flowering-, rendering- it a valuable plant for the season, 

 and perhaps preferable to any of the genus — it is a native of the 

 South of Europe, and was cultivated in this country, as long- since as 

 1596, by Gerard, it will grow in any soil or situation, and flowers 

 from September until destroyed by severe frost — it may be increased 

 by dividing- the roots, which according to Miller should not be moved 

 oftener than every third year. 



The genus aster is a very numerous one, and affords some orna- 

 mental species 



A. alpina A. nova anglije. 



— blandus. — spectabilis. 



— elegaus — pulcherrimus 



— grandiflorus. 

 PI. 40. 



