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Pointed-leaved Aster. Aste7- acuminatus. 



Found in August in rich woods (Mountains of Vermont). 



It grows about 1 foot high, and has a slender, sometimes zig-zag 

 stalk, which is slightly rough, and bears the leaves and flowers clustered 

 at the top. 



The leaf, from 2 to 4 inches long, tapers at tip and base, and is 

 coarsely toothed on the edge ; the surface is a little hairy, and the tex- 

 ture is thin ; the leaves, set directly on the stalk, are alternate at short 

 distances, giving the effect of a whorl of leaves. Color green. 



The flower-head has from 12 to 18 long, narrow, rays, white or 

 faintly tinted with violet, while the disc flowers are dull yellow. The 

 flower-heads are apt to be few, on slender stems in a branching cluster, 

 on the top of the stalk. 



This Aster lacks richness of color, but has a certain charm of 

 slender growth peculiar to wood Asters ; its few pale flowers set above 

 the full cluster of the broad pale leaves have an air of selection, un- 

 known to its more luxuriant relatives. 



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