228 Erigeron Philadelphicum. 
*__ nel-shaped, with an equal five-cleft limb ; those of the radius female, ligulate, linear, awl-shaped, 
erect, for the most part entire. Stam. (in the tubular florets) Filaments five, capillary, very 
short ; anthers forming a cylindrical tube. Pist. (in the tubular florets) Germen minute, crowned 
with hairs longer than its own corolla ; style thread-shaped, the length of the hairs ; stigmas two, 
oblong, revolute; the female or ligulate florets differ in having their corolla about as long as 
the hairs, and very slender stigmas. Peric. none, except the closed permanent calix. Seeds in 
the florets of the disk as well as of the radius oblong, small. Down long; capillary. Recept. 
naked, flat. 
Obs. Dillenius observes that the innermost or central florets of the disk are generally males. One 
species has those of the radius destitute of a corolla. 
Ess. Ch. meccpincle naked. Down simple: Florets of the radius linear, very narrow, numerous. 
Calix imbricated. Sa Ency. 
Eureenow Philadelphicum, seibaedbes; folie cmesto-ublongis rariter incise-dentatis, caulinis vemi-amplex- 
38 icaulibus, caule debili simplici superne corymboso, pedunculis elongatis unifloris, radiis capil- 
* Jaceis calyce ee duplo longioribus. Willd. Mich. et Pursh. 
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-DESCRIPTIO UBERIOR. “ 
Folia oblonga lanceolata basi cordata amplexicaulia subserrata, margine tenuissime eilliata. Corollx 
purpurez capillares longitudine disci, Willd. p. 1958. 
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The genus, of which two species are now to be described, is the 
spryepas Of the ancient Greeks, from »», the spring, and yao, an old 
‘man, because the plants which gave rise to the name were Bor’ f 
in the spring. 
“The Erigeron Philadelphicum i is an herbaceous adrenal lan 
two or three met in height, much branched at the top. The root is 
