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ASTER Amellus. 
Italian Star-wort. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
‘Nat. ord. ConYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. II. Receptaculum 
“nudum. Semen papposum. Flores radiati; (in Tussilagine et Senecione 
Sores partim flosculos?.) - 
ASTER. Supra vol. 3. fol. 183. 
Div. Herbacei, foliis linearibus lanceolatisve integerrimis. 
A. Amellus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis integerrimis scabris, ramis corymbosis, 
calycibus imbricatis subsquarrosis, foliolis obtusis, interioribus mem~ 
branaceis apice coloratis. Hort. Kew. 3. 199. 
Aster Amellus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1226. Mull. dict. ed. 8. n.2. Jacq. 
austr. 5.12. t.25. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2031. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5, 54. 
Marsch. bieb. flor. taur. cauc. 2. 311. 
Aster caule folioso, foliis scabris, ciliatis, lanceolatis, obtusis, calycinis - 
squamis ovatis, ciliatis. Hall. helv. n. 83. j 
Aster atticus ceruleus vulgaris. Bauh. pin. 267. 
_ Aster atticus. Dod. pempt. 266. 
Aster VIII., Italorum Fuchsii. Clus. hist. 2. 16, 
Amellus virgilii. Calceol. veron. 456. ; ‘ 
(«) foliis obovato-lanceolatis planis, corollis radii numerosissimis subimbri- 
Catis. 
(8) foliis lanceolatis rugosiusculis subundulatis, corollis radii divaricatis. 
Radix perennis, fusca, multiceps, Sibrisque numerosis jubata, caules gignit 
annuatim plures, erectos vel basi ascendentes, a dimidio pede ad duos pedes 
altos, scabros, villosos, teretes, substriatos, plerimque supra medium modd 
etiam totos ramosos. Folia ponuntur alternatim, lanceolato-oblonga, scabra, 
ad oras villosula, integra, obtustuscula, caulina infima et radicalia petiolata, 
reliqua sessilia. Calycis virentis squame sunt oblonge, ad oras villosule; 
interiores erect@ et ad apicem purpurea. Corollule radii cum levi purpura 
c@rulescunt: discus est luteus. Seminum pappus est pilosus et sessilis. Jacq. 
loc. cit. 
A hardy perennial plant; native of various parts of the 
South of Europe. Flowers with us from August to Septem- 
ber. Cultivated in 1596 by Mr. John Gerarde. 
_ Stems several, upright or ascendently slanted at the 
base, from half a foot to two feet high, rough, villous, 
round, somewhat fluted, generally branching above the 
middle, and sometimes for the whole length. Leaves 
obovately lanceolate, flat, rough, slightly villous at the 
edge, entire, the lowermost stem-ones and all the root-ones 
petioled, the others sessile. Calyx green, leaflets oblong, 
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