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have very little fvvelling in the middle, and are perfectly undivided 
at the edge. The Flowers are large, and of a very delicate crimfon. 
It blows from x^uguft to October. 
5. S CATTERY ASTER. 
Plate 49. Fig. 5. 
Charafler of the Species. After Isevis. 
The Leaves are fmooth, lanced, and ferrated: the Flowers 
ftand at diftances. ' 
Fig. 5. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of North-America, where Afters are 
moft numerous ; and is abfolutely diftintft in its habit from them all. 
The Plant is near a yard high : its Stalk is ftender, but very firm, 
angulated, and of a dulky green. The Leaves have no Footftalks : 
their colour is a deep but not obfcure green : they ftand fingly, and 
at confiderable diftances on the Stalk. They are perfedlly fmooth. 
The Flowers are large, and of a very delicate colour, between crimfon 
and violet. They ftand in a fpreading, loofe, irregular clufter. 
6. RED-DISK’D ASTER. 
Plate 49. Fig. 6. 
Charader of the Species. After mutabilis. 
The Leaves are lanced: the Cup fpreads very much at 
the Bafc, and the Difk when full blown, is crimfon. 
Fig. I. a b. 
This is a Perennial, a North-American, and a very beautiful 
kind. The Plant is five feet high j the Stalk is firm, brown, and 
divided into innumerable Branches. The Leaves are of a very deep 
green, and the young ftioots are pale. The Flowers ftand in vaft 
abundance and beauty on the top of all the Branches, They arc 
moderately large, and their natural colour is a deep violet blue ; but 
they vary, not only from Culture, but on the wild Plant, to pale 
blue, flefh coloured, and white. In general, the opener the ground 
where the Plant grows, the deeper is the colour of its Flowers : and 
this is the Cafe alfo in the others. 
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