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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
26. A T T I C ASTER. 
Plate 56. Fig. 26. 
Charaaer of the S[)cc\es After amcllus diaus. 
The Leaves are rough, thrce-rib’d, and half embrace the 
Stalk. The Cups are remarkably loofe in their texture. 
Fig. 26. a h. 
This is a perennial European After, frequent on the barren hills 
of the fouthern part of the Continent. It flowers in Auguft. Tlie 
Stalk is firm, ereeft, two feet high, and often tinged with brown, 
or with a dufky red: the Leaves are of a faint green: they have 
three ftrong Ribs, and their furface is rough. The Flowers are 
large and blue : they grow in bunches, or roundifti clufters at the 
top of the Stalk and Branches. 
27. WIDE-BRANCHED ASTER. 
Plate 56. Fig. 27. 
Chara£ter of the Species. After divaricalus. 
The Stalk divides into remote fpreading Branches. The 
Leaves are oval, and ferrated. 
This is an American, a fpreading Plant ; but of lefs beauty than 
many of the others. It is a Perennial, and Flowers in September 
with the reft. The Stalk is hard but weak : it grows to two feet 
and a half high. The Leaves are of a deep green ; and they ai-e 
fmooth and glolfy on the furface. The top Branches are green 3 but 
the lower part of the Stalk is brown 3 and the Flowers are large but 
white, with a yellow Difk 3 as is the cafe with almoft all the blue or 
crimfon ones. 
28. CRIM- 
