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 ASTER LINARIIFOLIUS. 



SAVOURY-LEAVED STAR-WORT. 



Polygamic. Superfua, Linn. Corymbiferce, Juss- 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix imbricated, the lower scales partly foliaceous, and often spreading. Radical 

 florets generally more than 10, rarely fewer, violaceous or white. Recep- 

 tacle naked. Pappus simple, pilose. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves linear, mucronate, without nerves and without dots, carinated, rough and 

 stiff; branches recurved; stem sub-decumbent; branches fastigiate, 1-flower- 

 ed; calices imbricate, the length of the disk. Willd., Ait. and Pursh. 



Root perennial. Plant about one foot or fourteen inches high. 

 Stem suffruticose, erect, of a pale purplish colour. Leaves all of a 

 greyish-green, erect, very stiff, the under disk generally most conspi- 

 cuous by reason of their erectness. Apex terminating in a sharp stiff 



vol. in. 25 



