494 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Erigeron. 
Section II. Coenotus.— fouer rows or nearly all the female ray-florets filiform and 
tubular. 
vest Torsi glabrous. Flower-heads Ces Ligulate florets 
rous, rather longer than the involuc - . 5. E. conyzoides. 
Plant 5 bise: or hirsute. Flower-heads in a short pani . Ray- 
florets nearly all filiform, the vu ones with a very ne AS 6. E. linifolius. 
SECTION I. EvurRIGERON.— Female florets all Ax in several rows. 
. E. pappochroma, Zabill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 47. t. 193. Stock 
ve thick, simple or branched. and tufted. Radical elves og from 
oblong-linear and nearly sessile to broadly obovate or spathulate, and nar 
ed into a long petiole, entire or remotely toothed, from under iin to 
above 1 in Stems or scapes simple, usually exceeding the leaves and 
and a single terminal flower-head, the whole plant glabrous or more or les 
hirsute. Involucre hemispherical, the bracts linear-lanceolate, in about 2 
rows, the inner ones 3 to 4 lines long. Ray-florets s$ very numerous, the ligula 
na narrow, 1 to 14 lings long ; disk-florets not excéeding the invo voluere.— 
DC. uA Pe 288; "Hook: f f. Fl. Tasm. i. 182 ; E phlogotrichus, Spreng: 
Syst. iii. 
wales Mee of P Australian Alps, F. Mue 
asmania. mit of Table Mountain, Derwent eiat R. Bug and of most of the 
` higher mountains, powered to Recherche Bay, J. D. Hooker 
ing varieties, all alpine, appear at og t sight to ^n distinct species, but it is 
difficult to assign any precise Set to any o 
a. stellatus. Glabrous except a few cilia CH SE de the leaves. Stock often 
S carcely petio olate, 
elongated. Leaves densely tufted, aeu under n. long, scar 
Coraceous.  Ray-florets fewer and longer than in the other Stree —Aplopappus Ken 
m ; Erigeron tasmanicus, var., Hook. f. Fl. Tasm 
-—Tasmania. 
oblon atus. Glabrous or nea arly so. Leaves oblong-spathulate or Se K 
narrowed into a long petiole, ae coriaceous.— Aplopappus tasmanicus, ook. f. in Hoo 
Lond. Journ. vi, 110; Erigeron tasmanicus, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 183. t. 46 A (the right- 
gure) — 
. €. Billardieri. Glabrous or nearly so. Leaves obovate-oblong or spathulate, narrowed 
into a long petiole, Pu toothed, much vi Le in He, Le variety.—A plopapps 
ga roma, H ook. Lond. 
—Tas 
d. Gunnii. Softly Kee aves Co bleh or spathlate ri or dec bes 
thick. Seapes long or short. —Aplopappus Gunnii us A. bellidioides, Hoo x 
Lond. Journ. vi. 111, 112; Erigeron Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i SÉ oe 
oria. 
etosa. Leaves small, shortly petiolate, oblong or cuneate, entire, thick, Lo with 
rigid bristly hairs. eege very short.—Munyong Mountains, Victoria, E Mueller 
2. E. ambiguus, F, Mali, in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 58. gës 
several, erect or ascendin g, corymbosely branched, shortly pube iae 
somewhat glandular, attaining about 1 ft. in height. Leaves oblong oF 
ceolate, entire or with a few coarse teeth. Flower-heads small, in a m 
th e ar or subulate, EN 
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