ASTER CAS'SIARABICUS. 
CASSIARABIAN ASTER. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA, SUPERFLU A. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Heig'ht 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Iberia. 
2 feet. 
September. 
Perennial. 
in 1834. 
No. 672. 
The derivation of the name has been previously 
noticed. 
Under No. 188 we published the Aster Amellus, 
than which very few species are more desirable, and 
none possessing the same classic interest. The 
present species is closely allied to it, but is of supe- 
rior growth and beauty, has greater depth of colour, 
and is even a more abundant flowerer than Amel- 
ins. Mr. Cameron informs us that it was raised in 
the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
in 1834, from seeds, received from Russia. It may 
probably be the Aster Ibericus of Stevens, which 
Decandolle considered a variety of Amellus. This, 
at the present moment, we have not the means of 
determining. 
The Aster belongs to one of the most extensive 
vegetable families in nature. It is one of the Syn- 
genesious Class of Linneus, and Natural Order 
Compositse, (compound flowers) of more modern 
writers. In its latter character it is highly interest- 
ing, and that we may call the attention of our 
younger readers to compound flowers we will quote 
Rossieu’s pleasing description of the flower of the 
