POLYGAMIA, SUPERFLUA. 
Ill 
j| exceedingly well. Flowers deep-purple. Leaves soft, small, 
j In Jersey, along the edges of woods towards Woodbury, and 
immediately near that village, abundant. I have not found it 
j west of the Delaware. Perennial. August, September. 
6. A. leaves laoceolate^ attenuated at the base, unMatus. 
acuminate ; rough on the margin ; stem simple, 
corymbose-fastigiate at the top ; calices loosely 
imbricated,- scales lanceolate-obtuse — Xamark, 
A. umbellatus. Ait. and Muhl. 
A. amygdaiinus, Mich., Lamark, and Pursb. 
Umbdled-jlowered Star-WQvU 
From two, to three and a half feet high. Flowers large, 
white. Leaves remarkably dry, and become brittle if not pre- 
pared for the herbarium with care. In the boggy ground of 
the Woodlands, close to the Darby road. In a swamp near 
Woodbury. Rare. Perennial. September. 
7. A. leaves ovate-oblong, acute, amplexicaule, ampiexicau- 
cordate, serrate ; stem paniculate, glabrous i 
branches 1-2-flowered ; caiicine scales lanceo- 
late, closely imbricated. — Willd, and PursJu 
A. amplexicaulis, Wiik!., not Mich. 
A. cyanseus, var. y, according to Miihl. 
A. Pennsylvanicus, Lamark ? 
About three feet high. Fiow’ers blue. On the edges of woods 
and thickets ; not uncommon. Perennial. August, Septem- 
ber. 
8. A. leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly entire, gla- SalicifoUusi 
brous ; stem smooth, panicled at the top ; calices 
loose, imbricated ^ scales acute, spreading ; open- 
ing at the apex, — Willd. smAPursh. 
A. prsealtus, Lamark. 
Icon. Rob. ic. 307. (Pursb.) 
Willow -leaved Aster. 
From three to five feet high. Leaves resembling exceeding- 
ly those of the willow tree. Flowers blue or reddish-blue. On 
the margins of ditches and in boggy thickets; rare. Near a 
