Savory-leaved aster.

August 3. 

Savory-leaved aster.

H. D. Thoreau,  Journal, August 3, 1858

Stiff Or Savory-Leaved Aster - Ionactis linariifolius.   See July 29, 1852 ("That common rigid narrow-leaved faint-purplish aster in dry woods by shrub oak path, Aster linariifolius of Bigelow, but it is not savory leaved. I do not find it in Gray. ");  December 26, 1855 (“. . .weeds in the fields and the wood-paths are the most interesting. Here are asters, savory-leaved, whose flat imbricated calyxes, three quarters of an inch over, are surmounted and inclosed in a perfectly transparent icebutton, like a glass knob, through which you see the reflections of the brown calyx.”); see also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Savory-leaved aster