The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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but toward the top fends out innumerable afeendant boughs, which 
all terminating nearly at the fame heighth, make a valb buHiv head. 
’’i he blowers are blue 
with a tinge of crimfon. 
iS. SMORT-Pn. A Y’D ASTER. 
Plate 53. Fig. 18. 
Cliaraftci of the Species. After mifer. 
a'lie Flower is oval ; for the DifI?: rifes high, and the Ra^s 
do not equal it in length. 
Fig. 18. «. 
This is a very poor After, a low Plant, with the fmalleft and 
Icaft handfome Flowers of all the Genus. It is feldoin two feet 
high : the Leaves are dulky, oblong, narrow, and hang drooping. 
The Stalk is altogether green. The Flowers are white, with a yel- 
low Dilk. The Rays are few, ftiort and poor. It blows in Sep- 
tember. 
19. B U S H Y AST E R. 
Plate 54. Fig. 19. 
Character of the Species. After dumofus. 
The Leaves are linear and undivided. The Stalk branches 
toward the head, into a multitude of very /lender ftri- 
ated twdgs. T he Di/k of the Flower is fmall. 
Fig. 19. a be. 
This is a native of Virginia, a well looking Plant, but not con- 
fpicuous for its Flowers. It is a Perennial, four feet high, with fine 
frefti green Leaves, and Innumerable Branches fpreading into a good 
form, and well covered ; but the Flowers, which appear late, are 
only moderately large, and are white. The main Stem is browm ; 
the Branches toward the top arc green, but ridged with brown ; the 
Cups of the Flowers have a degradation of Scales, which run from 
them all the way down the twigs which carry them ; they are linear 
toward the tops, but by degrees they get fome breadth, as they defeend, 
till where they meet the abfolute Leaves of the Stalks, they have 
their proper lanced form. 
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