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17. A. leaves ovate, petiolate, serrate, rough; up- macrophyi- 
per ones ovate, cordate, sessile, lower ones cor- 
i date petiolate : petioles submarginate ; stem 
I branched, diffuse; calices cylindric, narrowly 
I imbricated ; scales oblong, acute. — Willd. and 
I Purslu 
|. . 
j Large-leated Aster, 
I About twelve or fifteen inches high. Flowers bluish. In the 
! shady woods above the falls of Schuylkill, west side, abundant. 
Perennial. September. 
18. A. leaves amplexicaule, lanceolate, serrate, pumceus. 
roughish ; branches paniculate ; calices loose, 
exceeding the disk ; folioles linear-lanceolate, 
nearly equal; stem hispid.— 
A. puniceus, L. 
A. hispidus, Lamark. 
Icon. Herm. Lugdb. 651. (Pursh.) 
Red^stalked Aster, 
From one to four feet high. Stem red, very hispid. Flow- 
ers large, blue. A fine species deserving of cultivation. In all 
the swamps and watery thickets of our neighbourhood, and on 
the margins of our waters ; common. Perennial. September, 
October. 
19. A. leaves sub amplexicaule, remote, oblong, isevis. 
very entire, shining; radical ones subserrate; 
branches simple, one-flowered; calices imbri- 
cated ; folioles subcuneiform, acute, thickest at 
the apex; stem glabrous, angular. — Willd, and 
Pursh, 
Smooth Aster, 
A pretty and well-marked species, with simple upright 
stems, three or three and a half feet high. Flo wers bluish- 
purple. In thickets about half a mile south-east of the Buck- 
inn, on the Lancaster road. Rare. Perennial. September. 
