ASTER CARUL'ICUS. 
CABTTL STARWORT. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLCA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in Duration. 
Introdueed 
Cabul. 
2 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 1 Perennial. 
in 1843. 
No. 1032. 
The derivation of Aster is given under No. 1010. 
This genus includes a gi’eat number of species, 
upwards of one hundred and sixty being already 
enumerated in Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus — 
most of them hardy herbaceous plants ; the few 
that are shrubby being tender, and chiefly natives 
of the Cape and New Holland. This peculiarity 
now no longer exists, for we have lately had intro- 
duced from India, a hardy shrubby Aster, and 
which has not previously been figured. Its seeds 
were sent to the London Horticultural Society, by 
Wm. Griffith, Esq., now Superintendent of the 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta. 
The flowers of this novel species are not brilliant 
in colour, but like some others of the same family, 
what they lack in beauty they make up in quantity. 
In former years the North American Asters stood 
forth, with a few annuals, the gay monopolists of 
the garden, in autumn ; but of late, with the excep- 
tion of one or two species, they occupy the rear 
rank of shady retreats. 
The Aster Cabulicus may be increased abun- 
dantly by dirision of its roots. 
