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wort; 10. A. tenuifolius, Fine-leaved Stanvort; 11. -4. Ericoides, Heath- 

 leaved Stanvort; 12. A. dumqsus, Bushy Slarwort; 13. A. concolor, 

 Single-stalked Starwort; 14. A. divaricatus, Divaricate Stanvort; 

 15. A. Novi-Belgii, New-Holland Starwort; 16. A. paniculatus, Pa- 

 nicled Starwort; 1?. A. fruticosus, Shrubby Starwort. In this nu- 

 merous genus there are several other species equally deserving the 

 attention of the cultivator. 



The first is an elegant annual plant, rising in height from eighteen 

 inches to two feet; the stem is erect, stiff, furrowed, and as thick as 

 the little finger, putting out long bending branches from top to bot- 

 tom. The leaves next the ground and at the origin of the branches 

 are large, and resemble those of common Chenopodium : those on the 

 branches are much smaller, and the upper ones narrow and verj* en- 

 tire: the flowers are the largest and handsomest of any of the species 

 in this genus: the disk yellow, at first flat, then convex ; the floscules 

 of the ray are broad and long, scarcely notched at the end. 



There are varieties of this plant with single white flowers, single 

 blue flowers, single purple flowers, single red flowers : with double 

 while flowers, double blue flowers, double red flowers, and with va- 

 riegated blue and white flowers. 



The second species has radical leaves three or four inches long, 

 like those of the willow, from green inclining to brown, with small 

 scattered serratures. Among these come out round, smooth, woody, 

 brownish stems, clothed with similar leaves, only shorter; they are 

 elegantly divided into many slender, hard branches, two or three feet 

 high, adorned with abundance of very small white flowers during the 

 months of September and October. According to some, the disk is 

 purple. The ray of the corolla is first white, and afterwards purplish. 

 It is a native of Virginia. 



The third sort has the stems growing in large clusters from the 

 root, each of them branching at the top into eight or ten peduncles, 

 ach terminated by a single large flower, having blue rays, with a 

 yellow disk. It flowers in August or September, and in mild seasons 

 will often continue till the middle of November. It grows naturally 

 in Italy. 



