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SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Aster. 
Distinguishable by its broad leaves, size, and root which creeps very much. 
Linn. Leaves rather toothed than serrated. Floral-leaves very slender ; 
as long or longer than the partial fruit-stalk. Strap-shaped florets about 
seven or eight. Flowers yellow. ( Ray with broad ligulate florets. Stem 
three to five feet high, smooth. Leaves alternate, sessile. Calyx slightly 
cottony; scales at the base spear-shaped. Seeds smooth. E.) 
Broad-leaved Groundsel or Ragwort. Moist meadows and pastures 
and ditch banks, (very uncommon. E.) Between Wells and Glaston¬ 
bury, and near Shepton-Mallet, and elsewhere in Somersetshire. Bobart. 
Near Halifax. Mr. Newton. Fields about Salkeld. Ray. About Clap- 
ham and Ingleton, Yorkshire. Hudson. In the hedges near Longtown, 
and on the side of the river below Carlisle. Mr. Jackson. (Near Settle. 
Mr. J. Windsor. Brawsholme, nineteen miles from Preston. Rev. J. 
Rudd; near Chester. Mr. Okell; in a watery lane near Preston Hall, 
between Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal. Sir J. E. Smith. E. Bot. (On a 
small island of the Clyde a little below Bothwell-bridge. Dr. Brown. 
Border of a field near Mugdock castle, Glasgow. Hopkirk, in Hook. Scot. 
In a meadow at Abenbury, near Wrexham, close to the side of the brook 
called Llender, in the holding of Robert Ellis, tenant of Tyn y Coed; 
also on the banks of the river Dee above Eaton Boat, Cheshire. Mr. 
Griffith. E.) P. July—Aug.* 
AS'TER.f Recept. naked: Down hair-like; radiating florets 
more than ten : Calyx tiled; the lowermost scales ex¬ 
panding. 
A. tripo'lium. (Stem smooth, corymbose: E.) leaves strap-spear¬ 
shaped, fleshy, smooth, three-ribbed: calyx scales blunt, some¬ 
what membranous. ‘ 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 196. E.)— E. Bot. 87— FI Ban. 61 5—Gmel. ii. 80. 2— 
J. B. ii. 1064. 2— Ger. 333—Bod. 379—Lob. Ohs. 157. 4, and Ic. i. 296. 1 
— Ger. Em. 413. 1— Park. 674— Pet. 17. 10— Lob. Obs. 158. 1, and Ic. i. 
296. 2— Ger. Em. 413. 2— Pet. 17. 11— H. Ox. vii. 22. 36. 
Stems one to three feet high. Flowering-branches from the bosom of the 
upper leaves. Fruit-stalks branched. Calyx scales in two or three une¬ 
qual rows, short, egg-shaped, scored, green and brown, with reddish 
brown anthers. Florets of the circumference spear or strap-shaped, 
pointed, frequently cloven at the point. Woodw. Flowers with some¬ 
what of a sweetish scent, (and varying much in degree of colour, whence 
the specific name. E.) Florets of the circumference twenty-one to 
twenty-three, of a bluish lilac, (sometimes white. E.) Florets of the 
centre fewer, about eighteen, (deep yellow. Down of a reddish colour. 
Plant herbaceous, slightly glaucous, smooth, greatly varying in size. 
Leaves coriaceous, very entire. Lowermost scales of the calyx less deci¬ 
dedly spreading than in other species. E.) 
Sea Starwort. (Welsh: Serenllys y morfa. E.) Salt marshes on the 
sea coast, in muddy soil, and in salt marshes in the inland parts of the 
kingdom, as near Shirley Wich, Staffordshire; in a meadow between 
* Phalazna fuliginosa, Jacobcea , and pronuba , lire upon the several species. (This 
plant is reported to have been valued as a vulnerary by the Saracens, and is certainly an 
astringent of no mean power. E.) 
t ( From A aTYi§ } a star; the flower assuming the stellate, or radiated form. Ed 
