The vegetable system. 
tlie end of Auguft. It feems as if Nature, fportlng in this vafi; family, 
intended to make the regular gradation between the amazingly 
divided and branched Stalks of fome of the preceding kinds; and 
the very fimple ftrudture of the following : Many of thofe bear 
two hundred Flowers, upon divers leafed boughs that has its fimple 
Stalk crowned only with one. This Species feems the Link connect- 
ing thofe extremes, having without any divifion, yet a confiderable 
number of Flowers. 
The Stalk is brown, about two feet high, and ufually undivided, 
and defeitute of all Branches. 7 he Leaves are of a dufky brownifli 
green, hard, and harlh to the touch. The Flowers are crimfon, 
with fcarce any tinge of blue; and often a caft appears upon the Difk, 
but not always. 
14. ONE FLOWERED ASTER. 
Plate 52. Fig. 14. 
Charadler of the Species. After rigid us. 
One Flower terminates the Stalk ; the Leaves are linear 
and hai'jfh. 
Fig. 14. 
This is of the fame origin with the reft, a North-American, and 
mod frequent at the back of our fettlements in Virginia, where it 
rifes among thickets, and flowers all the latter end of Summer. The 
Stalk is brown and weak, yet hard, and in a manner woody : the 
Leaves are brownhh, harfli, and hard to the touch. One vafl crim- 
fon Flower grows on the fummit of the Stalk ; and its Cup is remark- 
ably thick. 
15. SUBLINEAR ASTER. 
Plate 52. Fig. 15. 
Character of the Species. After Linarias foliis. 
The Leaves are nearly linear, but pointed ; the Flowers 
are few. 
Fig. 1^. a b. 
This is a native of Penfilvanla and Virginia; a very beautiful 
Species, flowering toward the beginning of October. The Stalk is 
hard. 
