The vegetable system. 
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feft. They grow in a kind of tower, and cover the whole top of 
the Plant fo perfedtly, as at a diftance, to refemble one vaft niafs 
of fome blue light matter. 
II. HAIRY ASTER. 
Plate 5 1 . Fig. 1 1. 
CharaAcr of the Species. Afirer Nove Angliae. 
The Leaves are lanced, hairy, and half embrace the Stalk. 
Fig. I [. a. 
This is a tall and very majeftic Plant, a pereninal, and native, 
as moft of the others, of North-America. The Stalk is brown, 
rugged, and five feet high, or more. The Leaves are of a pale but 
brownhli green, and hairy : the Flowers are very large and beautiful ; 
they are blue; they ftand loofe on the tops of the Shoots and branches, 
and make a very great appearance, at the late time of their blowing, 
which is hardly till Od:ober. 
12. H E A TH Y ASTER. 
Plate 51. Fig. 12. 
Charafter of the Species. After Erlcoides. 
The Flowers rife in long Clufters : the Leaves are linear, 
and undivided. 
Fig. 12. <7 1 . 
This is another of the American Afters, a Perennial, flowering 
with us in vaft profufion late in Autumn. The Stalk is upright, firm, 
reddilh, and four feet high. The Leaves are of a delicate green, but 
often tinged with brown. The Flowers are fmall and ftand dole in 
long Spikes; their colour when they ftand in the free air is finguhr, 
it is crimfon without any tinge of blue. 
1 3. R A C E M O S-E A S T E IL 
Plate 52. Fig. 13. 
tharacter of the Species. After concolo.-. 
The Stalk is undivided; the Flowers ftand in a kind of 
a Spike: the Leaves are oval, and hard to the touch. 
Fig. 13. ah. 
This very fingular After is of the common country of the reft, the 
North-American continent ; and it flowers with the earlieft toward 
the 
