Dr Graham's Description of' New or Rare Plants. 175 



This plant was brought by Captain Graham of H. M. Packet Service from 

 Mr Harris at Rio de Janeiro in 1824, and has grown freely in rich soil 

 in the stove, pushing up three crowns from its root, only one of which 

 has yet flowered. 



Erigeron humile. 



E. htmUe; caule brevissimo unifloro: foliis integerrimis, ciliatis, sursum 

 pubescentibus, patulis ; radicalibus spathulatis basi longe attenuatis ; 

 caulinis lineare-lanceolatis acuminatis. 



Description Stem nearly awanting, the whole plant, including the erect 



flower, not amounting to an inch in height. Leaves crowded, spreading, 

 strongly ciliated, and sj)rinkled with a few simple colourless hairs on 

 their upper surface, which is flat, dark green, channelled in tlje centre, 

 veinless ; behind they are slightly concave, rather lighter coloured, gla- 

 brous, and have a strong rib in the middle, and one on each side, dis- 

 tinct, though less strong, and scarcely branched ; the lower leaves are 

 obovato-spathulate, attenuated into petioles about as long as themselves, 

 (together 74 lines); those above are more spathulate, and the uppermost 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate, all of them are quite entire in the edge. 

 Peduncle terminal, short (about 1^ line), but longer than the stem, one- 

 flowered. Calyx erect, camjpanulate (44 lines lon^), provided with a 

 5.phyllous, lax, subulato-filiform calycle ; scales subimbricated, unequal 

 lanceolato-linear, their outside, as well as the outside of the calycle and 

 the peduncle, thickly covered with long spreading purple hairs, naked and 

 green on the inside, scarcely longer than the calycle. Receptacle rough. 

 Florets of the ray equal to the length of the calyx, erect, linear, 2-toothed, 

 concave, white ; those of the disk less than half their length, yellow, 

 4-toothed, teeth blunt, suberect. Filaments inserted about the middle 

 of the corolla, colourless. Anthers yellow, included. Style exserted. 

 Stigma cleft ; in the disk, segments yellow, pubescent, clavate and conni- 

 vent ; in the ray straighter, more cylindrical, paler and more smooth. 

 Gennen obconical, somewhat hairy. Papptcs unequal, rough, as long as 

 the florets of the disk. 



The plants were raised from seed presented to the Royal Botanic Garden 

 by Dr Richardson, on his return from the arctic shores of America in 

 1 827. They flowered in September and October. 



Frankenia pauciflora. 



F. pauciflora; foliis linearibus, obtusis, margine revolutis, ramulisque et 

 calycibus acutis canescentibus; petiolis ciliatis; caulibus erectiusculis; 

 floribus terminalibus, solitariis. 



Frankenia pauciflora, De Cand. Prodr. i. 350. ? 



Description Stem shrubby (1 foot high), suberect, branching. Branches 



diffused, opposite, twigs slender, round, scabrous, dichotomous. Leaves 

 (4 inch long) green, scabrous, hoary or minutely tomentose, especially 

 below, where paler, opposite, linear, blunt, slightly channelled at the 

 base, reflected in the edges, middle rib prominent below. Petiole very 

 short, adpressed, ciliated. Flowers (74 lines long) solitary, terminal or 

 in the cleft of the twigs, sessile. Calyx adpressed, scabrous, having also 

 a minute tomentum as on the leaves, and in a slighter degree on the 

 twigs, rigid, 5-toothed, 5-gonous, channelled, persisting, teeth acute, 

 erect. Corolla 6-petaled, funnel-shaped ; claws linear, as long as the ca- 

 lyx, yellowish ; laminae obovate, scarcely as long as the claws, sharply 

 crenated at the apex, pale rose-coloured.' Stamens six, unequal, subex- 

 serted ; filaments white, flattened ; anthers large, incumbent. Germai 

 small, green, ovate, glabrous, unilocular, 3-valvular. Style filiform, 

 3-cleft. Ovules elliptical, attached to tlie edges of the valves. 



This plant a native ot New Holland, but I am not informed of what dis- 

 trict, was obligingly communicated to us in spring last from Kew, under 

 the name of Frankenia paticifiora. Tjicirecidetily scabrous leaves, 

 branches, and calyx, may excite some -^doubt whether it be the plant to 

 which De CandoUe gives that name; but of this I know nothing, except 



