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17. A. leaves ovate, petiolate, serrate, rough ; up- macropbyt 
per ones ovate, cordate, sessile, lower ones cor- 
: date petiolate: petioles submarginate; stem 
branched, diffuse; calices cylindric, narrowly 
c imbricated ; scales oblong, acute.—Willd. and 
hg Pursh. 
, Large-leaved Aster. 
About twelve or fifteen inches high. Flowers bluish. In the 
shady woods above the falls of Schuylkill, west side, abundant. 
Perennial. September. 
18. A. leaves amplexicaule, lanceolate, serrate, puniceus. 
roughish ; branches paniculate; calices loose, 
exceeding the disk; folioles linear-lanceolate, 
nearly equal; stem hispid.—/Villd. 
A. puniceus, L. 
A. hispidus, Lamark. 
icon. Herm. Lugdb. 651. (Pursh.) 
Red-stalked Aster. 
From one to four feet high. Stem red, very hispid. Flow- 
ers large, blue. A fine species deserving of cultivation. In all 
the swamps and watery thickets of our neighbourhood, and on 
the margins of our waters; common. Perennial. September, 
October. 
_ 19. A. leaves subamplexicaule, remote, oblong, levis. 
very entire, shining ; radical ones subserrate ; 
branches simple, one-flowered; calices imbri- 
cated; folioles subcuneiform, acute, thickest at 
the apex; stem glabrous, angular.— Willd. and 
Pursh. 
Smooth Aster. 
wv A pretty and well-marked species, with simple upright 
; stems, three or three and a half feet high. Flowers bluish- 
< le. In thickets about half a mile south-east of the Buck- 
inn, on the Lancaster road. Rare. Perennial. September. 

