163 ERZGEROK. No. 34 



No. 34. 



ERIGERON PniLADELPHICUM. 



English Nasie— SKEVISH FLEABANE. 



French Name — Erigeron de Philadelphik. 



German Name — Skewisch Berusungskraut. 



Vulgar Names — Skevish, Scabish, Sweet Sea- 

 bious, Daisy, Cocash, Frostweed, Fieldweed, Squaw- 

 weed, &c. 



Authorities — Linn. Mich. Pursh, Pers. Torrey, 

 Eaton, B. Barton, Depuy, Hales, A. Ives, Bigelow 

 Seq. Thatcher, Coxe. W. Bart. fig. 20. 



Genus Erigeron — Flowers compound radiate. Pe- 

 rlanthe imbricated, folioles subulate unequal. Pho- 

 ranthe naked. Rays ligulate, linear, entire, nume- 

 rous, pistillate; central flowers of the disk tubular 

 complete or staminate, five toothed. Seeds oblong 

 crowned by a simple pappus. 



Species. E. Philabelphicum — Pubescent, leaves 

 cuneate oblong obtuse, lower petiolate, upper semi- 

 amplexicaule, nearly entire subciliate: flowers co- 

 rymbose, rays twice as long as the hemispherical peri- 

 anth e. 



DESCRIPTION Roots perennial yeUowish, 



formed by many branching thick fibres. The whole 

 plant is pubescent and rises two or three feet, stems 

 one to five, straight, simple, branched and corymbose 

 *t the top, a little angular. Radical and lower leaves 



