432 POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, Erigeron. 
hermaphrodite floret in the centre, and many most slender 
females in the ray, 
A native of the Mauritius, where it blossoms in September. 
15. C, lanceolaria. R. 
Perennial, erect, from four to six feet high. Leaves lan- 
ceolar, serrate, smooth ; petioles sub-pinnatifid-winged, but 
not decurrent, Flowers panicled, sub-ovate. 
Furmol, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indige- 
nous and an article of the Materia Medica of that district, 
It flowers during the months of February and March, and the 
seed ripens in about two months. 
ERIGERON. Schreb. gen. N. 1287. 
Receptacle naked, Pappus hairy. Florets of the ray fe- 
male, ligulate, and very narrow, 
_ E. asteroides, Roxb. 
Annual, hairy, and glutinous, Branches longer than the 
stem, Leaves oblong, gashed, downy. Flowers a few, ter- 
minal, peduncled ; Ae of the ray numerous, long and 
slender, 
_ An annual, a native of dry cultivated lands. It flowers dur- 
ing the cold season. 
Stem erect, from six to twelve inches high, ramous near 
the ground, round, hairy, Branches ascending, loriger than 
the stem. Leaves alternate ; the inferior ones short-petioled, 
oval or obovate, sity toothed the superior ones sessile, ob- 
long, sub-lyred ; all are covered with soft down, and are some- 
what glutinous, Flowers a few, terminal, peduncled, large, 
flat. Hermaphrodite florets of the disk yellow ; the female 
ones ligulate ; those of the border blue, generally entire, and 
only emarginate. 
