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with a few rather large white flowers. — In old woods, New 

 Hampshire and Maine. — August. — Perennial. 



Aster puniceus, L. Red stalked Aster. 



Leaves clasping, lanceolate, serrate, rough ; branch- 

 es panicled ; calyx lax, longer than the disc ; stem 

 hispid. Ait. abr. 



A tall, handsome plant. Stem rigid, angular, flexuous, cover- 

 ed with stiff hairs, often, but not always red, three feet high. 

 Leaves lanceolate, somewhat clasping, tapering at both ends, 

 acuminate, furnished with large serratures in the middle, rough 

 on the margin and upper surface. Branches panicled, with blue 

 flowers, rather above the middle size. Calyx leaves uniform. — 

 On the Dedham turnpike, Roxbury, and elsewhere. — September. 

 — Perennial. 



Aster amplexicaulis. Mich. Clasping Aster. 



Leaves clasping, nearly perfoliate, oblong-heart 

 shaped, not contracted below, entire; panicle lax, few 

 flowered. Mich. 



Stem erect or ascending, a little downy and rough. Leaves 

 numerous, alternate, rough, somewhat waved on the edge, ob- 

 long, tapering to a bluntish point, broad at base, and clasping 

 quite round the stem. Branches few, near the top, slender, fur- 

 nished with several minute, clasping leafets. Flowers erect, 

 somewhat remote, blue. — Woods, Brighton. — September. — Pe- 

 rennial. 



Aster diversifolius Mich. Various leaved Aster. 



Leaves downy, slightly serrate and waved, the 

 lower ones oblong-heart shaped, with winged peti- 

 oles, upper ones oval-lanceolate, clasping ; stem hispid, 

 panicled ; branchlets leafy, one flowered, tending to 

 one side. 

 Syn. Aster undulatus. Ait. 



This species is remarkable for the gradation of its leaves from 

 pne distinct form to another. Stem pubescent, rough. Lower 



