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ERIGERON glaucum. 



Fordyces Erigcron. 





SYNGENESIA POL YG AM/A SUPERFLVA. 



TZRIGERONn (Recept* nudum. Scm. papposom* Fiona radiati.) 



Flares radiati ligulis linearibua mimcrosis. Cal. oblongua imbricattu 



inaequalis. Pappus pilosus. Ligulm in aliis albidcc v. purpurase€*M8 $ 



lule/c in aliis quarum imtiptr anthem nonnunquam basi { 1-J'etusa- In l las 

 indicant. Jussicu. gen. 180. 



E. glaucum, foliis ciliatis, gluucis, yiscosis ; radicalibus alato-pctiolatis, 

 paucidentatis ; cauliuis sessilibus integris. 



Ilerba pcrennis. Rhizoma carnoso-caudcscens ; caules super ne ambientcs, 

 plures, ascendcntes, villosi, striato-terctes, pcdales v. ultra ; pedunculi erccti, 

 pauci, infcrne positi, axil/ares, dittanies, Joliati, unijlori. Folia tcnera, 

 praina cana fy cxsudato visco obducta, graveolentia, 3-nervia, venosa ; radicalia 

 p/urima, \-uncialia, spathulata, quasi in rosam approximata fere ac in Bras- 

 sica, lamina obovata, unciam lata, luxe a lateribus serrata, latum petiolum 

 versus attenuatd ; caulina decrescentia, anguste oblongata v. lanceolata, dis* 

 tantia. Floras erectly solitarii, transverse subbiunciales. Cal. herbaceus, 

 or dine plurali poly phyllus, ccqualis, patentissimus, confertus, disco isometer ; 

 foliola Unearia, acuta, carinato dorso pilosa. Discus amplus, convexus,Jlav?is ; 

 flosc. villosi, extus toti papilloso-punctati, laciniis erectis : anth. Jlavce, pa rum 

 emicantes : stig. 2, oblonga, crassiora, erectiora. Radius lilacinus, numerosus 

 (jloscidis tot quot calyx Jbliolis? J, explanatus, integer rimus, ^-linearis S? 

 disco bis altior, infcrne extiis villosus, ligulis anguste lanceolatis: stig. 2, capil- 

 lacea, replicata, in stylo productiori. Germ, utrique simillimum, verticale 9 

 compression, sericeum, striatum: pappus sessilis, capillaris, obsolete denticulatusp 

 bislonvior. Recept. pulvinatum, nudum, scrobiculato-punctatum. 



At first sight our plant appeared to resemble so close 

 several both americau and european species, with which 

 we were already acquainted, that we hardly expected 

 to find it, as we did upon a more attentive inspection, keep 

 specifically aloof from all which had been recorded in any 

 work known to us; and that it had not found its way into 

 the extensive Herbariums at Sir Joseph Banks's or Mr. Lam- 

 bert's. Not to rely upon ourselves, we had recourse to more 

 than one learned botanist, who liberally communicated the 

 result of their researches, which agreed with our own. It 

 first appeared amongst us about three or four years ago, in 

 the collection of the Comtesse de Vandes, whose expe- 

 rienced and industrious gardener (after whom we have 

 called it in the cnglish name) had raised it from seed, which 



he is almost sure came from South America, and he suspects 



