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The vegetable system. 
ASTERS. 
TME SECOND ARRANGEMENT. 
Thofe v/ith the Leaves and Cups perfeclly feparate and 
diflindl. 
22. WOOLLY ASTER. 
Plate 55. Fig. 22. 
Chaiailer of the Species. After Alpinus, 
The Leaves are lanced and covered witli a har£h but 
woolly matter. One Flower only terminates the Stalk. 
Fig. 22. a h. 
This is a native of the European hills j thofe of Germany, the 
mountains of Switzerland, and the Alps and Pyreneans, toward their 
bottoms, afford it in abundance. It is a Perennial, and flowers in 
Auguft. The Stalk is weak and hairy : its colour is a greyifh green, 
and it rifes naturally without branches : the Leaves alfo are greyifh, 
woollv, Jind yet harfli to the touch. One Flower crowns the fum- 
mit oi the Stalk : and this is very large and of a cccleflial blue. The 
radical Leaves are broad and fhort ; thofe on the Stalk are longer. 
23. DOTTED ASTER. 
Plate 55. Fig. 23. 
Character of the Species. After fruticofus. 
l"he Leaves are fpotted, narrow, and placed in feeming 
clufters. 
Fig. 23. ai. 
This is a Angular, rather than an elegant Plant : it is a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope ; and hangs there from the clefts of rocks 
in a wild dangling manner in vafl: profufion. It is a Perennial, and 
its Stalk is fo hard toward the Bafe that it approaches the nature ©f a 
Shrub. This part of the Stem is brown ; the tender part is green ; 
the 
