AS TER NO'ViE-AN'GLIiE. ruber. 
RED NEW ENGLAND STARWORT. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
CORYMBIFEREiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
6 feet. 
Sept. Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1812. 
No. 223. 
The name aster has been applied to this genus, 
on account of the flowers having the appearance of a 
star; which the word, in the Greek language is used 
to indicate. Novae Angliae, New England; that 
part of North America whence this beautiful Aster 
was introduced; a country which has been traversed 
by several eminent botanists, and many splendid 
subjects brought from its woods and hills. 
New England occupies a most fertile and healthy 
portion of the United States, and has a rich display 
of the beauties of the vegetable creation. Its cli- 
mate is particularly salubrious, lying between 41 and 
48 degrees of north latitude. Its inequality of sur- 
face also is peculiarly favourable to the production 
of plants in very great variety ; for that which prin-. 
cipally enlarges the catalogue of vegetable species 
in particular districts, occurs here in an eminent 
degree. We allude to the difference between the 
lowest points of its valleys and plains, and the sum- 
mits of its highest mountains. Altitude, as well as 
latitude, gives a boundary to the existence of vege- 
tables; and where one species terminates its life, 
from heat or cold, another begins to vegetate. 
