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24. A. leaves lanceolate, somewhat scabrous, sub- spectabins. 
araplexicaule ,• lower ones serrate in the mid- 
I die 5 branches corymbous ; calicine folioles 
loose, leafy, sub-cuneiform, somewhat acute 5 
squp-rrose. — Willd. 
Showy Aster. 
From two to three feet high. Flowers large, blue. In 
Jersey near Woodbury ; rare. Perennial. August, October. 
£5. A. leaves linear, smoothish ; stem very much muitiflorus. 
branched, diffused, pubescent : branches lean- 
ing one way ; calices imbricated ; scales oblong, 
squarrose, acute. — Willd. 
Icon. Dill. elth. t. 36. f. 40. (Pursh.) 
Many-flowered Aster. 
A very common species, resembling No. 4, somewhat. 
Flowers middle size, white, rarely pale-blue. In old fields 
and on grassy way-sides, every where very common. Peren- 
nial. September. 
leaves ciliate, those of the stem linear-lanceolate, 
nerved — of the branches very short, lanceolate, 
3-nerved ; stem branched, pubescent ; branches 
paniculate^ calices imbricated 5 scales spathu- 
late, squarrose.' — Willd. 
Fringed-leaved Aster. 
Closely allied to the preceding, but easily known from it by 
the above characters. Grows with it, but very rare. Septem- 
ber. 
26. A. leaves linear, or linear-lanceolate, obso- fiagiiis. 
letely and sparingly serrated in the middle : ^ 
branches weak j calices imbricated; folioles lan- 
ceolate-acute, margined. B. 
A. tenuiculus, Bart. Prod. FI. Ph. p. 81. 
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