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A. ERicoiDES. Here the species originates, as distinguished from 

 the next. The specimens are well marked, and bear also the name of 

 A. lucidus, Solander. 



A. MULTiFLORUS. The A. ericoides dumosus of Dill. Elth ; and, 

 being the Gronovian plant also, it would more properly have retained 

 the Linnsean name, as already stated. 



A. SALiciFOLius. A floriferous branch or summit of the plant 

 which is named A. carneus in Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am., and which 

 may also be A. sulicifolius, Lam. The specimen is of " Hort. Kew. 

 1781." Another specimen, ticketed as a variety, is different, perhaps 

 A. polyphyllus, Willd. 



A. ^STivus. Two specimens on one sheet : Hort. Lee and Hort. 

 Kew. ; the species still in cultivation ; not that of Torrey and Gray's 

 Flora, but one more nearly related to A. paniculatus, Lam., appar- 

 ently indigenous only in British America. 



A. JUNCEUS. Apparently the A. longifolius. Lam., at least the in- 

 digenous plant from Nova Scotia ; but the specimen from " Hort. 

 Kew. 1771," on which the species may be said to be founded, seems 

 to be a narrow-leaved form of A. paniculatus, Lam. 



A. PENDULUS. A form of the next, with slender divergent branches ; 

 the A. miser, var. diffusus, Torr. and Gray. 



A. DIFFUSUS. " Hort. CoUinson, 17G2, Hort. Kew. 1777, Hort. Lee, 

 1781." All forms of A. miser, var. diffusus, Torr. 'and Gray : and 

 this common and well-marked species may take the name of diffusus 

 rather than either the preceding or the following name. 



A. DiVERGENS. " Hort. Kew. 1777," the specimen nearly de- 

 stroyed, and "Nova Scotia, prope Halifax, Halbgren, 1779." Clearly 

 of the preceding species. 



A. MISER. " Hort. Kew. 1777," of course not the Linnteau plant ; 

 appears from the very small heads to be the Morisoniau A. Trades- 

 canti. 



A. MUTABiLis. Specimens from " Hort. Kew. 1777, Hort. CoUin- 

 son, Hort. Jacquin." Being all of the same species, this might be 

 taken in place of the undeterminable Linna3an mutabilis ; but it is the 

 earlier published A, Icevigatiis, Lam., which, therefore, is the name 

 to be adopted. 



A. Novi-Belgii. Specimens of various Asters, throwing no light 

 upon the Linna;an species. 



A. PANICULATUS. Name pre-occupied by Lamarck ; the specimen 

 (not a good one) is of " Hort. Gordon, e sem. Labrador," and is pretty 



