Erigeron.] Lxxv. compositz. (J. D. Hooker.) 255 
plant, there is no specimen in the Wallichian Herbarium, nor is there of Conyza gra- 
veolens (Wall. Cat. 3106, Herb. Madr.), which is referred by DC. to E. hispidum. 
2. Species of the temperate and Alpine regions. 
3. E. andryaloides, Benth, in Herb. Kew; perennial, densely softly 
tomentose or woolly, leaves petioled spathulate entire or lobulate, heads $ in. 
diam. on a very naked scape-like stem, invol. bracts linear acute, ligules short 
broad revolute, pappus white then reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 62. Conyza 
andryaloides, DC. Prodr. v. 377. 
Western Hatz: Lahul and Kunawur, Royle, dc. WESTERN TisET, alt. 
918,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 
Rootstock woody, very stout. Leaves 1-2 in., densely crowded. Scapes à in., 
with one or two small linear leaves or 0. — Jnvol. bracts woolly or pubescent. Achenes 
1 in. flat narrow silky; pappus rather longer, 1-seriate. 
4. E. monticolus, DC. Prodr. v. 286; perennial, glabrous or sparsely 
hairy, leaves petioled, radical rosulate obovate-lanceolate acute subentire, heads 
solitary or few on a slender scape-like stem, ligules many twice as long as the 
pappus. Wall, Cat. 2977. 
Temperate and ALPINE HiMArAYA ; Nipal, Wallich ; Kumaon, Strach. & Winterb. 
In its usual form a scapigerous plant, but sometimes branching, and then appa- 
rently passing into Æ. bellidioides. 
5. E. alpinus, Linn; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 165; biennial or perennial, 
hispidly hairy or glabrate, radical leaves petioled spreading obovate or oblong- 
obovate, cauline usually sessile obovate or oblong, heads solitary or corymbose 
-3 in. diam., invol. bracts pubescent tomentose or woolly, ligules rarely ex- 
ceeding the length of the reddish pappus, achenes sub-silky. E. acre, Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 52; Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. $ T. 
Throughout the Temperate and ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA, the Kuasa and 
Nucuerry Mrs.—Disrris. Mountains of the N. temp. zone. 
I have in vain tried to draw any distinction between this common Himalayan 
Erigeron and E. alpinus, which is itself in my opinion only a form of E. acris; nor 
does the difficulty end here, for I find it almost as difficult to separate E. bellidioides 
and multiradiatus by any definite characters, whilst E. monticolus seems to pass into 
the bellidioides on one hand, and on the other, into E. andrya/oides. The following 
varieties are not strictly definable, they represent prevalent forms. 
Var. 1. alpinus proper; hispid heads subsolitary $ in. diam., invol. bracts subu- 
late-lanceolate, ligules longer than the pappus. 
Var. 2. multicaulis; more glabrous, stem much branched from the base, branches 
slender, heads rather small usually long-peduncled corymbose, pappus hairs scanty 
shorter ones very few. E. multicaulis, Wall. Cat. 3286; DC. Prodr. v. 292. Tempe- 
rate and Alpine Himalaya, from Nipal westward and Western Tibet. 
Van. 3. semibarbata; more robust and hairy or hispid, leaves often 3-nerved, 
cauline j-amplexi-aul or narrowed at the base, heads 2-3 in. diam. few larger, ped- 
uncles often thickened at the top, the lateral often spreading, tube of ray-fl. with 
long hairs, ligules twice as long as the pappus. E. semibarbatus and ? Roylei, DC. 
Prodr. v. 292. Western Himalaya, abundant. 
Var. 4. khasiana ; erect, hairy, stem usually unbranched below, radical leaves. 
very crowded obovate-lanceolate, cauline sessile, heads few peduncled, ligules twice as 
long as the red rather copious pappus the shorter hairs of which are rather numerous. 
E. bellidioides, var. khasiana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 56. Khasia Mts., alt. 83-6000 ft., 
Bhotan, Griffith. 
Var. 5, Wightii; stout, hispid, stem usually unbranched below, radical leaves 
many oblong-lanceolate, cauline narrowed at the base, heads 2-3 in. diam. few long- 
peduncled, ligules as long as the copious pappus, shorter hairs rather numerous. E. 
