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NAT. ORDER. COMPOSIT.E. 
Aster tennifolias. Fine-leaved Starwort. In this species die stems 
rise to about five feet in height ; they are angular, smooth, and 
branching very little ; the leaves are alternate, and not very rough ; 
the flowers terminal, solitary, small, and white ; the peduncles have 
very large subulate leaflets scattered over them. Native and inhab- 
iting the Western States. 
Aster Ericoides. Heath-leaved Starwort. In this species the 
stems are very slender, about three feet high, with slender side 
branches most of their length, so as to form a thick bush ; these are 
terminated by single flowers. 
Aster dumosus. Bushy Starwort. In this species the stems are 
much less in number, upright, and about two feet in height, full of 
branches which are filiform ; the stem-leaves being narrow-lanceo- 
late, on the branches linear; the peduncles filiform, striated, one- 
flowered, and clothed with very narrow leaflets; the flowers small 
with an erect, imbricate, loose calyx ; the ray copious and white ; 
the disk yellow, with less flowers. 
Aster concalor. Single-leaved Starwort. This species sends up 
stems about four feet in height; the flowers are pale blue. The 
whole plant is tomentosae, especially the calyx and leaves ; the ra- 
ceme single, with very short peduncles. It is a native of Virginia. 
Aster divaricatus. Divaricate Starwort. In this species the stem 
is obscurely furrowed, of a pale red, not very erect, but irregularly 
flexuose, corymbosely branched, the branches divaracate and much 
divided; the leaves of the same form, sometimes having a single 
serrature, the edge scabrous ; if the finger should be drawn towards 
the base the surface will be found to be rough with invisible hairs ; 
the flowers rather solitary, somev^^hat small, on long, scaly, yellow 
• peduncles ; scales of the calyx distant, in fine rows ; disk of the 
corolla yellow ; ray pale blue, revolute ; in height nearly four feet, 
having broad leaves at the bottom, which diminish gradually to the 
top. The flowers appear at the latter end of August, and is a native 
of Virginia. 
