_SYNGENESIA POLYGAMI4 
_ Nat. ord. Coryenirerm. Jussieu gen 
Div. I. Receptaculum nudum. Sem« 
(in Tussilagine et Senecione flores partim flosculos 
ASTER. Flores radiati, ligulis pluribus qua 
imbricatus, squamis inferioribus patulis. | Pappus p 
aut corymbosi ; ligule violacee aut urpurascentes aut al 
cissime fruticulose. A. alpini caulis simplex uniflorus. Juss. gen. 181. 
_ Flores radiati; 
0, lanceolatis. _ Cal. 
is. Llores paniculate 
te Div. Herbacei foliis linearibus lanceolatisve integerrimis. 
A. nove anglie, foliis lanceolatis integerrimis cordatis amplexicaulibus 
pilosis, calycibus discum superantibus laxis, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis 
‘subaequalibus, caule hispido. Hort. Kew. 3.201, 
Aster nove anglie. Linn. sp. pl. 2.1229. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 5. 
Kew. ed. 2. 5. 55. Michaux bor. amer.2. 113. Willd. sp. ple 8. 2082. — 
Aster foliis lanceolato-linearibus alternis integerrimis semi-amplexicaulibus, 
floribus capitato-terminatricibus. Gron. virg. ed. 2.124. Clayt.n. 244. 
Aster nove anglia altissimus hirsutus, floribus amplis purpureo-violaceis. 
Herm. paradis. 98. cum tab. , Sre93 
Asteripholis, Ponted. diss.244,. 
Perennis. Orgyalis v. ultra. Caules his 
superne flecuosi laxits atque latiusculé panicu 
subcorymboso-fastigiantibus. Folia erectiuscula, profundé cordato-amplesi- 
odulia, lineart-lanceolata, angusta, triuncialia ». longiora, decrescentia, his- 
pidits villosa. Flores in ramorum finibus capitato-corymbulosi, 1-5, majuse 
cult, pedunculis brevissimis. Cal. campanulatus ; foliolis pauciseriatis, sub- 
coloratis viridibusve, lanceolato-linearibus, longé acuminatis, villosis, sub- 
superantibus discum floris. Radius cyaneus vel purpureo-rubens. Flosculi 
disci flavescentes, limbo brevi fusco-purpureo, dentibus 5 ovato-acuminatis. 
Anth. incluse. Stigmata 2, rep 
sericeum, oblongum, pappo fulvescente. 
Of about one hundred species of Aster which have been 
enumerated by Willdenow, upwards of sixty belong to 
North America. Mr. Pursh has since increased that num- 
ber to seventy-eight in his North American Flora. 
sent species is said to be found from Canada to 
1a he Flora Virginica; a fact we have esta 
rison with the prototype specimen i 
Clayton’s Herth rium. We doubt, however, whether it is 
that intended by Pursh, since we did not find it to be the 
, 
bide. - Species pau- . 
Hort. 
pi Jfusco-rubescentes, stricti, 
a 
ti, ramis simplicibus, summis — 
licata, linearia, lutea. Germen albo- 
- Our plant is evidently, even to the variety, the 
