ASTER SPECIES. 
A. Cordineri, leaves a most spinulous, dark-green ; large but pale 
in blossom. 
A. depawperatus, a crowded-blossomed species, akin to A. 
ericoeides. 
A. divaricatus, slender ; heart-shaped toothy foliage, and thin poor 
blooms. 
A. dumosus, a well-known and beautiful Aster about 2 feet high, 
the parent of many garden forms, even more beautiful and clear- 
flowered. 
A. ericoeides, not less well-known and beautiful, with some no less 
lovely forms and improvements. See any catalogue. Three feet and 
more. 
A. frondeus, a dim and unprofitable species. 
A. furcatus, a leafy slender plant with starved-looking stars. 
A. glaucus, 1 to 2 feet, smooth and glaucous; bright violet 
panicles. 
A. glomeratus, stout, coarse and leafy, with short poor flower-rays. 
A. gracilis, few diminished stars. A little over a foot in height ; 
violet. 
A. grandiflorus, one of the most sumptuous of late-flowering border 
beauties—tall and leafy, with magnificent, many-rayed flowers of 
dark rich violet, very late. Dry places of Virginia, but perfectly 
hardy and thanking you for a sunny aspect. (The “Christmas ” 
Aster.) 
A. hebeclados, a poor and pallid weakly thing. 
A. Herveyi, rather coarse, about 2 feet high ; purple. 
A. infirmus is a slender flaccid plant with creamy-white flowers. 
A. junceus, a species from cold boggy lands, with slender upright 
undivided stems, and large flowers ranging from purple to pink and 
white ; the leaves particularly narrow and rushlike in effect. 
A. laevis, rather excessively ample and leafy; dullish violet 
blooms of deadened tone. 
A. lateriflorus (A. diffusus, Aitch.), sharp-toothed leaves ; bluish 
white. | 
A. linarifolius, narrow-leaved and graceful, from 6 inches to 2 feet, 
with many stems, and big violet flowers either alone at the top of each, 
or at the ends of undividing branches. 
A. Lindleyanus, a big, leafy stalwart, with big blue-violet flowers 
in ample panicles, of handsome effect. From 1 to more than 3 feet. 
A. longifolius, about 2 or 3 feet, with leaves more or less embracing 
the stems, and big branching panicles of big flowers in that rather 
flat tone described euphemistically as “‘ purplish violet.” 
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