CHINA ASTER; or, STARWORT. 
ASTER CHINENSIS. 
Aster, see American Starwort. 
Order.— POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Ord, 
(For 
Class 19. ere 
Nat. Ord. Lin : ‘uss. 
COMPOSIT® RADIATI. RYMBIFER®. 
The China Aster has the largest ae handsome ~ flowers of 
s e ed, 
leafy, terminal; otek yellow, floscules of the ray broad an 
long ; seeds ripened in 
CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
YSANTHEMUM INDICUM. 
Class 19.—s¥NGENESIA 0 —POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
inn. . Juss. 
COMPOSIT DISCOIDE®. ORYMBIFERZ. 
Ch ame 0g from CHRUSOS, the Greek for Sold, es, 
A 
the species, moet familiar to the Greeks why ced towers i. 
gold co of forming the generic name 
of plants f th lor, when the same species pak present 
all ‘the colors of the rainbow 
ndian, or Chin nese Chrysanthemum, was introduc 
ea re 
h deeper cut than others. 
Nes per eS 
=) 
ower, 
soft to the oe and clothed “with a light “down: fuer 
hig colors pod 
bla h, purple, ete., and 
sintdaatins of some two of 
fragrant. The love a 
pay of the species, It grows to the height of four or five 
feet ; its branches rough, "reddish pba white and almost cotton 
ne ar the top. Its /eaves opposite, four or five inches long, 
pire ihe breed=-of a balsamic Its , Tose- 
mens yellow—about the size of a field poppy. 
ored ; 
Native of peeing 
arborescen’ growing to * neh of about two rer its 
rs—its leaves 
is as formerly 
es astringent but latent, it is co’ x 
was carefully detached 
beardso of goats sthat orem) upon this ge 
it, is plant, a 
com posed of umerous — leather thongs which pi ny the 
dust of the anthers, when sufficiently deposited, it is 
scraped off clea 
Sometimes it rn used in the way of fumigation, on account 
Poi odor. 
ies noticed by Darwin, which he calls Cistus labda- 
Linnew 
that Darwi 
t, C. creticus, th e flowers of which, are of a rose 
large, so 
ae seatielonielt corolla compound, radiated : icin 
naked. 
CISTUS; on, ROCK ROSE. 
Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
NEX, 
Class 13.—POLYANDRIA. 
. Ord. 
CISTINEX 
Linn. 
RUTACEX. 
eric name Cistus (L.) is derived from the Greek 
h ‘0 
phe tha t name, and probably he deriv ved 
we fi 
ae eee kist or kissed, and he adds, ies is aa 
Eng! lish often K ate k. 
Cistus echt ed and mr rng genus, all | equally 
aaa for their peste earors 
a nal ways to end their es a with the e sun 
nder © obi they first expanded. But, having a profusion 
of flower-buds, a succession of yoathful erat is continued, to 
pare the care of the cultivator; shee re are rm flowers 
a corolla of the Cistus has five petal rather round, flat, 
ing; 
lade ith such velocity from the confinement of the small 
calyx, th 
tion, th the pobre have rather a crumpled appearance. Their 
$ stam ens add grea tly to their delicate ‘beauty, there 
t botanists, are 
The 
natives sof the south of rata But it only requires a 
rican 
that of se 
r Cista, rival of the rosy dawn, 
cara her light < and Ms the dewy lawn, 
melody, the new-born May, 
Ae rial the lay. 
* 
In chang — “ere waited troops she led 
Pan where  Eudress shades @ the mead, 
aped with mimic step 
CLERODENDRON anv VOLKAMERIA. 
Class 14. —DIDEN AMIA. Order.—ANGIOSPERMIA, 
d. n Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ought never toh >have been 
es mart Th placed in 
pager 2 difference pointed out is, 
and has one, 
ae Cleradenron has a simple, 20 a bifid stigma, 
do -stones iy pane of kernels is said to 
thelr efflorescence the same, 
ery few exceptions. 
The flowers of each have perianth calyr, which is anes 
nulate, five-cleft, Corolla monopetalous, the tube 
slender, nearly twice ce the length of reget ete era 
fr ribed, seems to in- 
aaiealdlan 
mepnviaeinss of our own Ame wilds, to add considerably 
to the ber already noticed as indigenous to this 
