116 NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS. 



produced upon petioles of an extraordinary length, 

 rather small, and as usual scabious and three-nerved, 

 appearing somewhat shining and almost destitute of 

 serratures. Peduncles solitary, also of great length. 

 Segments of the calix, linear-lanceolate, acute; leaf 

 lets of the receptacle mostly three-toothed. Rays 

 of the flower numerous, bright yellow, the disk dark. 

 Seeds small, and spotted, covered with a silky and 

 fulvous down. 



This curious species, so readily distinguished at 

 the first sight, is an ornamental annual of easy cul- 

 ture, remarkable for the smallness of its leaves, and 

 the length of their petioles. The flowers are about S 

 or 4 inches in diameter, and the stem low, with 

 spreading branches. 



8. Aster *graveolens, viscosus; caule pumilo ra 

 mosissimo recurvato rigido; foliis crebris consimilibus 

 lineari-oblongis acutis subamplexicaulibus integerri- 

 rais; ramulis exsertis uuifloris; calicibus squarrosis. 



A. oblongifolius. Nuttall's Genera, 2. p. 136. 



Habitat. On the shelvings of rocks, on the banks 

 of the Arkansa and Missouri. — Flowering time, from 

 August to December. 



Descriptive observation. Perennial. Stem 

 about a foot high; under cultivation more than double 

 that altitude, its texture somewhat woody below, and 

 very brittle, the main branches are commonly recur- 

 ved, and very copiously and regularly sub-divided 

 so as to form a roundish annual bush of an almost 



