Savory-leaved aster.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 3, 1858
Stiff Or Savory-Leaved Aster - Ionactis linariifolius. See 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.”)
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