110 POLYGAMIA, SUPERFLUA. 
ones petiolate, serrate; stem simple, corymbose 
at the top; calices cylindrical, squarrose ; rays 
5, short.— Willd. and Pursh. 
A. Marylandicus, Mich. 
Conyza Asteroides, Sp. Pl. 1206. 
Plowmans’-wort. 
Resembles No. 1, somewhat in habit, but may be easily dis- 
tinguished by the difference in the leaves, they being much 
broader in the present plant. Flowers white. In similar 
places with No. 1; common. Perennial. August, September. 
linariifolius. 3, A. leaves linear, mucronate, without nerves and 
without dots, carinated, rough and stiff; bran- 
ches recurved; stem sub-decumbent; branches 
fastigiate, 1-flowered; calices imbricate, the 
length of the disk.—Willd. Ait. and Pursh. 
A. squerrosus, Herb. Banks. Mss. (Pursh.) 
Savoury-leaved Star-wort. 
From ten to twelves inches high. Leaves narrow and stiff. 
Flowers pale-blue. On the edges of sandy woods in Jersey, 
abundant. Perennia]. August, October. 
ericoides. 4, A. leaves linear, very smooth, those of the 
branches subulate, close together ; those of the 
stem elongated ; calices subsquarrose ; folioles 
acute; stem glabrous.— Willd. 
Heath-leaved Aster. 
This is by far the commonest species in this vicinity, grow- 
ing every where on barren ground, even among the turn- 
pike stones, and along the edges of fences. It is diffuse or 
spreading. Flowers small, white. Perennial. All summer. 
concolor. 5. A. leaves oblong-lanceolate, covered all over 
with a white pubescence; stem quite simple, 
erect, pubescent ; raceme terminal; calices im- 
bricated; scales lanceolate, silky, adpressed.— 
Willd. 
Soft-leaved Aster. 
A very elegant species, well worthy of cultivation in gar- 
dens. I have transplanted it into my garden where it thrived 

