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A. rhlogifolius (Phlox-leaved). Stem quite simple, downy, 
panicled at top; leaves lanceolate, entire, cordately stem-clasp¬ 
ing, downy beneatli; involucre scales lax, imbricated, lanceolate. 
2 ft. Yiolet. September. N. America. 
A. PR/ealtus (very tall). 6 ft. 'Vermilion. September. North 
America. 
A. prenanthoides (Prenanthes-like). Branchlets pilose; leaves 
stem-clasping, spatulate-lanceolate, serrate in middle, cordate 
at base; involucre scales lanceolate, squarrose. 3 ft. Blue. 
September. N. America. 
A. pclciiellTj S (pretty). Stem, one-flowered ; leaves entire, 
radical ones spatulate, stem ones linear-lanceolate ; involucre 
scales nearly equal, lineal’, acuminate. 1 ft. Purple. June. 
Armenia. 
A. pulcherrimu s (prettiest). 2 ft. Blue. September. North 
America. 
A. punctatus (dotted). Branchlets corymbose-fastigiate, di¬ 
varicated ; leaves linear, remote, tliree-nerved, acuminate, 
dotted, edge scabrous; ray usually ten-flowered ; involucre 
imbricated, half length of disk. 3 ft. Yiolet. Aug. Hungary. 
A. puniceus (red-stalked). Stem hispid ; leaves stem-clasping, 
lanceolate, serrated, rather scabrous; branches panicled; in¬ 
volucre lax, longer than disk, leaflets linear-lanceolate, nearly 
equal. 8 ft. Blue. September. N. America. 
A.- demissus (dwarf). 2 ft. Blue. Sept. Gardens. 
A. eamosus (branched). A variety of A. alpinus. 1 ft. Purple, 
red. June. N. America. 
A. rigidus (stiff-leaved). Stem not branched; leaves linear, 
alternate ; flowers solitary, terminal; involucre scaly, swelling, 
round. 1 ft. Purple. September. N. America. 
A. eivularis (river-side). 3 ft. White. Sept. N. America. 
A. sanguineus (bloody). 3 ft. Reddish-blue. September. 
N. America. 
A. serotinus (late). Branches corymbose, smooth; branchlets 
one-flowered; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile, smooth, edge 
scabrous, lower ones serrated; involucre scales lanceolate, 
spreading. 3 ft. Blue. August. N. America. 
A. Sibiricus (Siberian). Stems striated; leaves lanceolate, sub- 
stem-clasping, serrated, pilosely-scabrous; involucre lax, scales 
lanceolate, leafy, acuminate, hispid. 2 ft. Blue. August. 
Siberia. 
A. Sikkimensis (Sikkim). Stem erect, branched, smooth; 
leaves lanceolate-acuminate, spinosely denticulate, radical ones 
larger, stalks longer, stem ones sessile; corymbs many-headed, 
leafy, peduncles and pedicels downy ; involucre leaflets linear- 
acuminate, sub-squarrose. 2 ft. Blue. September. Sikkim. 
A. SPECTABILIS (showy). Branches corymbose; leaves lanceolate, 
rather scabrous, lower ones serrated; involucre scales leafy, 
lax, rather wedge-shaped, rather pointed, squarrose. 2 ft. 
Blue. August. N. America. 
A. squareosus (squarrose). Stem branched, hairy; branchlets 
one-flowered; leaves ovate-acuminate, entire, reflexed, edge 
hispid; involucre imbricated, scales linear-wedge-shaped, 
pointed, squarrose. 2 ft. Blue. June. N. America. 
A. strictus (straight). Stem one or few-lieaded ; leaves sessile, 
narrow-lanceolate, serrated, scabrous. 1 ft. Yiolet. October. 
N. America. 
A. suRCUiosus (spriggy). This is a dwarf, and its roots creeping. 
Stems weak, simple ; leaves lanceolate, long, rather smooth ; 
involucre scales linear-oblong, blunt. 2 ft. Purple. August. 
N. America. 
A. tardiflorus (late-flowered). Stems prostrate, heads terminal; 
leaves sessile, lanceolate, narrowed at base, serrated, smooth ; 
involucre lax, leaflets lanceolate-linear nearly equal, smooth. 
2 ft. Blue. September. N. America. 
A. tenuifolius (slender-leaved). Stem smooth, erect, branched; 
branchlets one-flowered; leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering at 
each end, entire, edge hispid; involucre imbricated, scales 
oblong, lax, pointed; peduncles leafy. 3 ft. White. August. 
N. America. 
A. tomentosus (woolly). 2 ft. Pink. July. New South 
Wales. 
A. TORTIFOLIUS (twisted). 1ft. Purple. Sept. N. America. 
A. trinervis (three-nerved). 2 ft. White. August. Nepaul. 
A. unduIjAtus (waved). Stem panicled, hispid; branchlets one¬ 
sided, very leafy, one-flowered; leaves oblong, cordate, stem- 
clasping, entire, pilose, rather wavy, lower ones ovate, cordate, 
sub-serrate, stalked, stalks winged and wider at the base; 
involucre imbricated. 3 ft. Purple. September. N. America’. 
A. YERSICOLOR (various-coloured). Stem much branched, 
smooth; leaves sub-stem-clasping, broadly lanceolate, partly 
serrate, radical-ones serrate in the middle, upper ones entire; 
involucre scales lanceolate, lax, shorter than disk. 3 ft. White 
and purple. N. America. 
The Asters (Starworts) are, as the above list proves, a very 
large tribe of plants. There are at least fifty more recorded 
species ; but we have selected the best, and most showy, and most 
distinct. They bloom from June till November, and, conse¬ 
quently, are valuable as ornaments to t he flower-borders when most 
of the other floral beauties are gone to rest. The favourite colour, 
blue, predominates ; and as they arc mostly natives of the colder 
regions of the earth, they are very hardy. These qualities recom¬ 
mend them to the lover of old-fashioned flowers ; and everybody 
that has a garden should procure as many species as he can find 
room for, and grow r them in a rich, well-drained sandy loam, 
placing the taller species behind and the dwarfs in front of the 
border. The tail-growers are well fitted to plant among shrubs, 
because the bright-coloured flowers relieve the monotonous green 
of their foliage. 
Propagated easily by taking up the plants in early spring and 
cutting them into moderate-sized divisions, planting them im¬ 
mediately in fresh soil in the borders. As they bloom when the 
equinoctial gales prevail, they should be (especially the taller- 
growing sorts), well secured from the winds of autumn with stakes 
and ties, allowing the shoots freedom to spread and show their 
beautiful flowers. The earlier-blooming species might be pro¬ 
pagated with advantage as soon as they have done flowering ; they 
would then make fresh roots before winter sets in, and, con¬ 
sequently, flower more strongly the first year after being divided. 
{To be continued .)' T. Appleby. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S MEETING. 
The September Meeting of the Entomological Society was 
held on the 5th ult., Dr. J. E. Gray, E.R.S., the President, in 
the chair. As usual at this season of the year, the business of 
the Meeting was almost entirely confined to the exhibition of 
recent captures, members being too much occupied with their nets 
to be able to devote much time to their pens and pencils. 
Dr. Ivnaggs exhibited a specimen of Folia occulta, taken at 
Camden Town, and some other fine Moths taken this season in 
the south of England, including Clostera anachozeta, a species 
hitherto considered as a doubtful native of this country, Nonagria 
concolor, JEupithecia expallidata, &c. Likewise the living Cater¬ 
pillar of Timandra prataria, which was found feeding on Foly- 
gonum aviculare. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a fine specimen of IZadena peregrina, 
a rare species of Moth lately taken at Freshwater, in the Isle of 
Wight. 
Mr. Allchin exhibited a specimen of Leucaria musculosa, 
taken at Brighton, and Nola centonalis, from Folkestone. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a living specimen of Locusta migra- 
toria, taken near Brighton, where it has been unusually com¬ 
mon this season. 
Of foreign insects the following were exhibited,—viz., a box of 
beautiful longicorn Coleoptera sent from Sierra Leone by Mr. 
Foxcroft; also, by Mr. S. Stevens, a portion of the collection of 
Lepidoptera made by Mr. Trimmings, in South Africa, con¬ 
taining a fine series of Butterflies of the family Pieridae. 
Mr. lanson exhibited a fine new species of Adelops, a genus of 
minute Beetles destitute of eyes, found by Monsieur Jacquelin 
Duval in the Pyrenees. 
Mr. Pascoe announced that the collection of insects, of all 
orders, belonging to the United Service Museum, was about to 
be disposed of by private contract. 
Mr. Tegetmeier stated that, he had recently noticed that bees 
resorted to a chalybeate spring for water, in preference to all 
other water in the neighbourhood. 
VARIETIES. 
The Months in the Country : October. —We draw up the 
curtain upon the month of October in the heart of a rural 
orchard of old Apple trees, and reveal one of the prettiest and 
pleasantest sights which the country can afford at this season of 
the year. The old trees were planted somewhat arbitrarily 
long before the modern notions of planting were current, and for 
more than one generation they haye been suffered to have their 
