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ERIGERON GLABELLUM. SMOOTHISH-LEAVED 
ERIGERON. 
EEK KEKE EEE EEE EE EKER 
Class and Order. 
Syncenesia SuPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord. — Composir2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Involucrum imbricatum. Receptaculum nudum.  Filos- 
“a radii ligulati angustissimi. Pappus pilosus seu sea- 
er: | | te 
Specific Character and Synonyms. — 
Ericeron * glabellum ; foliis Janceolatis integerrimis gla- 
bris ciliatis, radicalibus subspathulatis nervosis, caule 
involucroque pubescentibus, floribus subcorymbosis, 
radiis (purpurascentibus) numerosis angusti linearibus. 
Ericrron glabellum. Nutt. Gen. of N. Am. Pl. 2. 2. p. 
148. Richardson in Frankl. First Journ. ed. 2. App. 
p. 30. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 519. 
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Descr. Root perennial, somewhat creeping, throwing out — 
radicles from beneath. Stems from six to eight inches to a 
foot high, erect, herbaceous, below purple, green and 
pubescent and somewhat angular above, where it branches 
into four to six flower-stalks. Leaves’: those springing 
fom near the root the longest, spathulate, tapering down- 
Wards gradually into a footstalk, the rest sessile, lanceolate 
scarcely 
* From ; i d an old man; in other 
pt, early (from x, spring) and, yépwy, vs 
words, which real old early in the season, The name was given by the 
reeks to the Genus Sznecio, and by more modern writers, to our present 
nus, as allied to it. 
