Description | Botanical study of a specimen of Aster, common name starwort. A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty Plants, from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society... 1725' by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society volume 34, issue 395 (1727), p.125
Purple flowering plant showing flowers open and in bud, with small green leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Aster Virginianus pyramidatus Hyssopi foliis asperis calycis squamulis foliaceis, act. Phil. n. 395'. Not signed. |