37 4f Dr. Hooker's Account of a 



Mr. Brown further considers the A.plantaginifolia and A. ful- 

 gens to be varieties. 



Mr. Scoresby's Greenland specimen exactly agrees with 

 this, and with what I have also seen from Melville Island. 



16. Erigeron. 



33. E. unijlorum. 



I am quite unable to distinguish this from the alpinum of 

 authors. Both may be considered as inhabiting the southern 

 alps, as those of Switzerland, Pyrenees, the Jura, Carniola, 

 Dalmatia and Saltzberg ; and more frequently still those of 

 ' the north of Europe. In Scotland it occurs on a few of the 

 highest mountains. In Lapland it appears common, as it is 

 also on the low grounds in Iceland. Colmaster discovered it 

 in Labrador. I have a specimen gathered by Mr. Goldie on a 

 river bank near Quebec. Shores of the Arctic Sea (Richard- 

 son). It does not appear in the Arctic Flora of Captain Ross's 

 or Captain Parry's first Voyages. But it was discovered by the 

 latter commander in Repulse Bay. 



34. E. compositum, subacaule, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis 



triplicato-tripartitis, laciniis linearibus divaricatis, cauli- 

 nis linearibus plerumque indivisis, caule superne nudo 

 unifloro. 



Tab. XIII. 



E. compositum. Pursh Fl. ofN. Amer. v. ii. p. 555. 

 Cineraria Lewisii. Rich, in Franklin's Journ. App. p. 748. 



Radix ut videtur parva, perennis, pauce fibrosa. Caulis nul- 

 lus. Folia radicalia, longe petiolata, profunde tripartita, 

 laciniis cuneiformibus trifidis, segmentis subovatis obtusis, 

 pilis brevibus obsita. Petioli lineares ciliati, basi dilatati 

 subvaginati. Scapi tri-quinque pollicares pilosiusculi, 

 teres, nudi, vel foliolo solitario lanceolato integro in- 



structi. 



