We study the ∗-varieties of associative algebras with involution over a field of characteristic zero which\ud
are generated by a finite-dimensional algebra. In this setting we give a list of algebras classifying all such\ud
∗-varieties whose sequence of ∗-codimensions is linearly bounded. Moreover, we exhibit a finite list of\ud
algebras to be excluded from the ∗-varieties with such property. As a consequence, we find all possible\ud
linearly bounded ∗-codimension sequences