Felicia. | LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 307 
serrulate, hirsute or setose, 1-2 in. long. Capitula hemispherical, 4 in. 
wide (exclusive of ray), solitary terminal on naked glandular-pubern- 
lous peduncles 1-2 in. long. Involucral scales 3—4-seriate, linear-lan- 
ceolate acutely acuminate, glandular-pubescent where exposed ; outer 
stouter, loosely appressed. Receptacle naked. Ray-florets revolute, 
linear-oblong, sky-blue or violaceous. Achenes thinly setulose. Pappus 
uniseriate scabrid white caducous.—Pulicaria viscida, R. Br. in Salt, 
Trav. App. p. Ixv. fide Sch. Bip. in Schw. Fl. Athiop. 307. F. Schim- 
peri, St. et Hochst. ; Jaub. et Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. t. 354. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper / and others ; Somali-land, Hildebrandt. 
Extends to Arabia Felix. 
19. ERIGERON, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 279. 
_Capitula heterogamous; florets of ray numerous 1-0 -seriate pis- 
tillate, disk-florets perfect (or staminate). Involucre hemispherical or 
campanulate, scales subbiseriate narrow, outer usually rather stouter. 
Receptacle naked (more rarely alveolate and fimbrilliferous), Ray- 
florets all or outer only ligulate, ligule narrow or filiform; disk-florets 
tubular, slightly dilated to the 5-4-toothed mouth. Anther-base 
obtuse unappendaged. Style-branches more or less flattened, lanceo- 
late or ovate-lanceolate (rarely, linear) papillose. Achenes much or 
slightly compressed, often with reniform margins. Pappus setaceous, 
l-seriate (or biseriate).— Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, 
entire, toothed (or divided). Capitula various in size, solitary or 
cymose. Ray violet purple or white. . 
A large genus of the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
Heads singly terminating the branches, 3-1 in.diam. . . . 1. £. alpinus. 
Heads laxly eymose, din.diam. . . . . 2 . 2 EB. Graniii. 
branches, terminating in solitary or subsolitary capitula. Leaves 
rowly linear-lanceolate, acute, pilose with whitish spreading rather 
stiff and broad hairs ; inner ones rather more and outer ones rather 
less than 1 in. long. Receptacle naked, } in. diameter. Ray-fi. 
“seriate, purple, not broader than inyolucral scales and exceeding 
them by about the length of the latter, erect-patent. Interior female 
; tubular-filiform, numerous. Achenes narrowly obovoid-oblong, 
compressed, with 2 strong lateral nerves, thinly pilose. Pappus uni- 
Seriate, subrufous, barbellate, twice length of achene.—JL. glabratus, 
ppe et Hornsch.; Vatke in Linnea xxxix. p. 481 (1875). 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Works it several Reme fa the “Alps and Aretic regions of both the Old and New 
orld, except Australia, 
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