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sends up a numerous cluster of stems, which rise from four to five 

 feet in height; these are brown, terminated by large purple violet 

 flowers, growing in a loose panacle, and expanding in August. The , 

 peduncles are so short as scarcely to be seen among the flowers. 

 This is also a native of New England. 



Asia- grandijlorus. Great Blue Pyramidal Aster. This species 

 sends up several stems from three to four feet in height ; they are 

 stifi", reddish, hairy, and branching pyramidically. The branches 

 have small lanceolate leaA^es growing alternate, hairy and rough to 

 the touch, the size of those of the common hyssop, and each termina- 

 ted by one large blue flower, which makes its appearance in the latter 

 part of October. This is a native of Virginia. 



Aster puniceiis. Red-stalked American Starwort. This sort 

 sends up several large stems from two to three feet in height, of a 

 purple color; but the flowers are on single peduncles, forming a 

 corymb at top of a pale blue color ; they appear about the beginning 

 of September. This is a native of all the northern United States, 

 and varies in height, according to the soil, from three to eight feet, 

 having the stems either of a dark purple or a reddish green. There 

 is a variety in which the flowers are purple, inclining to red, and 

 surrounded by a few narrow leaves. This is from Pliiladelphia, and 

 flowers in August, and sometimes not until November. 



Aster undulalus. Waved Starwort. This species produces leaves 

 broad and heart-shaped at the bottom ; the stems rise from two to 

 three feet in height, with small side branches, upon which the flow- 

 ers are placed in loose spikes ; they are of a pale blue color, inclin- 

 ing to white. It flowers in August, and is a native of N. America. 



Aster lini/olius. Flax-leaved Starwort. This species is clothed 

 with leaves which are lanceolate, gradually narrowing at the end ; 

 peduncles very small subulate scale ; tiie stems are strong, from two 

 to three feet high, putting out many side branches nearly half their 

 length, terminated by one blue flower which appears in August and 

 September. 



