The vegetable system. 
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7. CLUSTERY ASTER. 
Plate 50. Fig. 7. 
Charafter of the Species. After Tradefcanti. 
The Leaves are oblong, dented, and fvvelling a little in 
the middle. The Flowers form a wild Cinder. 
Fig. 6. a'f 
This is a Perennial, native of North- America, and was one of 
the hrd: brought over into our gardens. The Stalk is thick, brown, 
and welted with fine fmall leafy Ridges. The Leaves are of a deep 
and unpleafant green ; the Branches are numerous, very irregularly 
difpofed, and thick fet with fmall Leaves. The Flowers ftand on 
the* Divifions of the upper Branches; which are almofi; innumerable, 
and form a vaft clufter : they begin to blow at the latter end of Sep- 
tember, and lad till the froft. 
8. BROAD-HEADED ASTER. 
Plate 50. Fig. 8. 
Character of the Species. After Novi Belgii^ 
The Leaves are broad, lanced, and notched. The 
Flowers form a broad open Head. 
This is a Perennial, a native of Virginia, and is not one of the 
leafi: elegant of the After family. It loves a damp foil, and flowers 
from the Beginning of September to Winter. The Leaves are of a 
deep green, broad, lanced, and ferrated about the middle ; they ad- 
here to the Stalks by broad Bafes, having no Footftalks. The Stalk 
is duflcy> and toward the bottom browm. The top is divided into a 
multitude of fpreading Branches ; and on each of all their divifions 
ftands one flower, and no more : they are therefore kept at a diftance, 
and naturally fpread into a broad head. They are large, and their 
colour is a pale violet with a tinge of crimfon. 
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VoL. 11. 
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