466 SYNGENESI A [ Asteroid** 



Red (stalked) Aster. 



Stem 3 to 6 feet high, hlspldly scabrous with short conic bristles, mostly purple 

 (sometimes green), paniculately branched. Leaves 2 or 3 to 4 or 6 inches long 

 and 3 fourths of an inch to 2 inches wide, acute, or acuminate, more or less taper* 

 ing at base, often rather sparingly serrate. Heads of flowers rather above the 

 middle size, paniculate; leaflets of the involucre linear, with a white membran- 

 aceous margin, minutely pubescent-ciliate ; rays violet-purple. Akenes pubescent* 



Hah. Swampy thickets, and low grounds: frequent. Fl. Sept. /V.October. 



Obs. The A. puniceus, of Elliott,— of which I have received specimens from 

 my friend, the Rev. M. A. Curtis,— seems to be nearly intermediate between this 

 and the preceding. Our Chester County plant presents several varieties; and I 

 have a suspicion it will yet be found, in some of its variations, to be almost too 

 near akin to A. prenantiwides, 



9. A. miser, Nutt. Stem roughish-villose, sub-simple ; leaves cune- 

 ate-lanceolate, acute, serrate, scabrous-pubescent, sessile ; heads of 

 flowers in short axillary racemes ; involucre imbricate, the leaflets 

 oblong, acute; rays small. Nees, Ast. p. 111. Not of Ait. &c. 



Miserable, or starved Aster. 



Stem 6 to 12 or 18 inches high, rigid, subtomentose, often purple, generally 

 simple, or with very short axillary branches. Leaves 1 to 2 or 3 inches long, and 

 1 third of an inch to an inch wide, varying from elliptic-lanceolate to oblong- or 

 cuneate-lanceolate, acute, sometimes nearly entire, or obsoletely serrate, thickish 

 and subcoriaceous, scabrous above, and rough ish-pubescent beneath. Heads of 

 flowers small, clustered in short leafy axillary racemes; involucre minutely pu- 

 bescent, the leaflets oblong, acute, green at apex ; rays white, small ; dink brown > 

 or finally purplish. Akenes pubescent. 



Hob- Sterile banks, N. of Shusart-town : not common. Fl. Sept. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. This has been collected at different times, in the above locality, —and has 

 the appearance of a plant which is stunted by the sterility of the soil. 



10. A. parviflorus, Nees* Stem somewhat pilose in lines, panicu- 

 late ; leaves lanceolate, acute, or acuminate, more or less serrate in 

 the middle, scabrous along the margin, sessile; involucre imbricate 

 the leaflets linear, acute ; rays short. Nees y A*U p* 99. 



A. miser. Of the Authors here quoted, — except Nutt. & Nee*. 

 Also? A. divergens, A. dilTusus, and A. pendulus. Ait. Nees 9 &c. 

 Small-flowered Aster. 



Stem i to 3 or 4 feet high, angular-striate, pubescent in lines, sometimes smooth- 

 ish below, often much branched, the branches slender and leafy, spreading, or 

 pendent. Radical leaves spatulate- lanceolate, acute, serrate, narrowed to a peti. 

 ole at base ; stem-leaves 1 to 3 or 4 inches long, and 1 fourth of an iuch to an inch 

 wide, lanceolate and lance-linear, acuminate, more or less serrate in the middle* 

 the base and acuminatum entire, smoothish beneath, slightly scabrous on the 

 upper surface, and more so on and near the margin ; branch leaves mostly numer- 

 ous, small, varying from ovate-lanceolate to elliptic and lance-linear, mostly very 

 acute, entire. Heads of flowers small, often very numerous, in loose paniculate 

 leafy, and sometimes pendulous, racemes ; branches and pedicels pubescent; into" 

 lucre smoothish, the leaflets linear, rather acute, keel green, margin scarious and 

 minutely ciliate; rays white, or tinged with purple, linear, a little longer than 



