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COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
aceous tips; rays violet-purple ; achenia silky. — Near Boston and 
Salem, JV uttall, Mr. Little. — Scarcely known,: allied to A. oblongi- 
folius, and to the next; but the heads much smaller. 
A. ^OV8B-Aliglte, L. (New England Aster.) Stem 
stout, hairy, corymbed at the summit; leaves very numerous , lanceo¬ 
late, entire , acute, auricvlate-clasping , clothed with minute roughish pu¬ 
bescence ; scales of the involucre linear-awl-shaped, loose, equal , nearly 
in a single row, glandular-viscid, as well as the branchlels; rays 
violet-purple, sometimes rose-purple, very numerous; achenia hairy. 
— Moist grounds, common. —Stem 3°-8° high; the showy heads 
crowded in close corymbs. 
§ 4. Oritrophium, Kunth. -Scales of the involucre narrow , nearly 
equal and almost in a single row , more or less herbaceous: pappus of 
soft and uniform capillary bristles: mostly low perennials , bearing 
solitary or few heads. (Chiefly arctic or alpine.) 
bO. A. graininifolius, Pursh. (Grassy-leaved Aster.) 
Slightly pubescent, slender (6'-12' high); leaves very numerous, 
narrow ly linear; branches prolonged into slender naked peduncles, 
bearing solitary small heads; rays rose-purple or whitish.-New 
Hampshire, about the White Mountains, Mr. Eddy. (Herb. Tucker- 
man.) A northern plant. 
s, . rth meris, Torr. & Gr. — Scales of the involucre regularly im- 
nctf/e , unequal, often carinate, with membranaceous margins , en- 
lary^bristles^ °^ ier ^ aceous **P S: pappus of soft and unequal capil- 
31. A. a«u mill situs, Michx. (Pointed-leaved Aster.) 
omtw lat lairy ; stem low, simple, zigzag, panicled-corymbose at 
ic summit, peduncles slender; leaves oblong-lanceolate , conspicu- 
U P 01 > coarsely toothed above, wedge-form and entire at the 
; sea ts of the involucre few and loosely imbricated, linear-lan- 
ccolate, pointed, thin ; rays 12-18, white, often tinged with purple. 
o nc wo s, N. England to Wisconsin, principally northward 
and on mountains.— About 1° high, with thin leaves 3' -5' long, and 
few or several heads. 
J. , MCllioriklls, Ait. (Galatella-Aster.) Minutel] 
0 ns i pu icscent; stem slender, simple or corymbose at the sum 
it, very tafy , leaves small (1'-1£' long), rather rigid, lanceolate 
ar y entire, with revolute margins; scales of the inversely conica 
* narrowl J linear-lanceolate, the outer passing into awl 
JvJ* 0 * 8 1 ra ^ 8 ^i ac ‘P u rple, elongated. — Bogs, E. Massacbu 
uj l • eTse y ne ar the coast. — A handsome species, l°-2 
* 1 S I na . P a ^ e i eav es resinous-dotted beneath. Heads 1 a 
several, terminating peduncle-like simple branches. 
33. 4 - 
A. ptarmicoides, Torr. & Gr. (Sneezewort-Asteb 
