I POLYGAMIA, SUPERFLUA. 109 
i Elecampane. 
I This well-known plant, is becoming naturalized in this vici- 
I nity, as it has long been in different parts of the United States. 
I have found it in many places in Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary- 
land, and Virginia, with every appearance of being a native 
i plant. On the borders of fields, near the Buck Inn, on the 
Lancaster road. In Jersey near Woodbury, and on the Botanic- 
garden-ground of the University of Pennsylvania ; rare. Pos- 
sesses medicinal properties and has been much esteemed by 
physicians. (See Woodville.) At present its use is confined 
to domestic practice. — Plant three or four feet high, leaves 
very large and rough. Flowers also large and globose. Pe- 
rennial. July, August. 
I 3ir. ASTER. Gen. pi. 1291, {Corymbifer<je,) 
Calix imbricated^ the lower scales partly fo- 
liaceous and often spreading. Radial flo- 
rets generally more than 10^ rarely fewer^ 
violaceous or white. Receptacle naked. 
Pappus simple^ pilous. — JVutt. 
1 . A. leaves linear-lanceolate, obsoletely S-nerved, 
very entire, obtuse, rough on the margin ; 
branches corymbose-fastigiate ; flowers sessile, 
crowded ; ray 5-flowered ; calices imbricated, 
shorter than the disk ; scales oblong, obtuse, 
adpressed, somewhat reflexed at the apex. — • 
Willd. and Pursh. 
A. Solidaginoides, Willd. and Muhl. 
A. Solidagineus, Mich. 
A. Dracunculoides, Lamark? 
Conza linifolia, L. and Walt. 
Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 79. f. 2. 
White4opped Star-wort. Golden-rod Jlster, 
About fifteen or eighteen inches high. Flowers white. In 
Jersey, on the borders of open woods; in similar places west 
of the Delaware ; common. Perennial. July, August. 
2 . A. leaves oblong, 3-nerved, narrow at the base, conyzoides. 
acute } upper ones sessile, very entire 5 lower 
