. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. 4H COMPOSITAE. Vol. 46. Aster grandiflorus L. Large-flowered Aster. Fig. 4327. Aster grandiflorus L. Sp. PI. 877. 1753. Stem rather stiff, divaricately much branched,hispid with short hairs, i°-2i° high. Leavesoblong, linear, or somewhat spatulate, rigid,sessile by a broad, sometimes slightly claspingbase, reflexed, entire, obtusish, hispid, thelarger 2 long and 4 wide,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. 4H COMPOSITAE. Vol. 46. Aster grandiflorus L. Large-flowered Aster. Fig. 4327. Aster grandiflorus L. Sp. PI. 877. 1753. Stem rather stiff, divaricately much branched,hispid with short hairs, i°-2i° high. Leavesoblong, linear, or somewhat spatulate, rigid,sessile by a broad, sometimes slightly claspingbase, reflexed, entire, obtusish, hispid, thelarger 2 long and 4 wide, those of the branchesvery numerous. 2-~, long; heads about 2broad, terminating the branches; involucrehemispheric, its bracts very squarrose andfoliaceous, imbricated in 5-7 series, linear, orlinear-oblong, glandular, the outer obtusish,the inner acute; rays very numerous, deepviolet, nearly i long, I2 wide; pappus brown-ish ; achenes ribbed, canescent. In dry soil, Virginia, east of the mountains, toFlorida. Sept. 47. Aster spectabilis Ait. Low showy Aster. Seaside Purple Aster. Fig. 4328. Aster spectabilis Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 209. 1789. Stem stiff, simple, or corymbosely branchedabove, puberulent, or rough below, more orless glandular
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