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24. A. leaves lanceolate, somewhat scabrous, sub- spectabilis. 
é amplexicaule ; lower ones serrate in the mid- 
. dle; branches corymbous; calicine folioles 
# loose, leafy, sub-cuneiform, somewhat acute ; 
ss Squarrose.—Willd. 
Showy Aster. 
From two to three feet high. Flowers large, blue. In 
Jersey near Woodbury; rare. Perennial. August, October. 
25. A. leaves linear, smoothish ; stem very much muttiforus. 
branched, diffused, pubescent: branches’ lean- 
ing one way; calices imbricated ; scales oblong, 
) squarrose, acute.—/Willd. 
Icon. Dill. elth. t. 36. f. 40. (Pursh.) 
Many-flowered Aster. 
A very common species, resembling No. 4, somewhat. 
Plowers middle size, white, rarely pale-blue. In old fields 
and on grassy way-sides, every where very common. Peren- 
nial. September. 
leaves ciliate, those of the stem linear-lanceolate, 4. <#aus 
nerved—of the branches very short, lanceolate, 
$-nerved ; stem branched, pubescent ; branches 
paniculate; calices imbricated; scales spathu- 
late, squarrose.— Willd. 
Fringed-leaved Aster. 
Closely allied to the preceding, but easily known from it by 
the above characters. Grows with it, but very rare. Septem- 
ber. 
26. A. leaves linear, or linear-lanceolate, obso- fragilis. 
letely and sparingly serrated in the middle : 6“ 
branches weak ; calices imbricated ; folioles lan- 
* ceolate-acute, margined. B. 
, A. tenuiculus, Bart. Prod. Fl. Ph. p. 81. 
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