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sends up a numerous cluster of stems, which rise from four to five 
feet in height; these are brown, terminated by large purple violet 
flowers^ growing in a loose panacle, and expanding in August. The 
peduncles are so short as scarcely to be seen among the flowers. 
This is also a native of New England. 
Aste?^ grandijlorus. Great Blue Pyramidal Aster. This species 
sends up several stems from three to four feet in height ; they are 
stiff, reddish, hairy, and branching pyramidically. The branches 
have small lanceolate leaves growing alternate, hairy and rough to 
the touch, the size of those of the common hyssop, and each termina- 
ted by one large blue flower, which makes its appearance in the latter 
part of October. This is a native of Virginia. 
Astei- puniceus. Red-stalked American Starwort. This sort 
sends up several large stems from two to three feet in height, of a 
purple color ; but the flowers are on single peduncles, forming a 
corymb at top of a pale blue color ; they appear about the beginning 
of September. This is a native of all the northern United States, 
and varies in lieight, according to the soil, from three to eight feet, 
having the stems either of a dark purple or a reddish green. There 
is a variety in which the flowers are purple, inclining to red, and 
surrounded by a few narrow leaves. This is from Philadelphia, and 
flowers in August, and sometimes not until November. 
Aste?' undalatus. Waved Starwort. This species produces leaves 
broad and heart-shaped at the bottom ; the stems rise from two to 
three feet in height, with small side branches, upon which the flow- 
ers are placed in loose spikes; they are of a pale blue color, inclin- 
ing to white. It flowers in August, and is a native of N. America. 
Aster linifolius. Flax-leaved Starwort. This species is clothed 
with leaves which are lanceolate, gradually narrowing at the end ; 
peduncles very small subulate scale ; the stems are strong, from two 
to three feet high, putting out many side branches nearly half their 
length, terminated by one blue flower which appears in August and 
September. 
