222 COMPOSITE. 



anthers without tails and achene with short beak but 

 no pappus (distinction from ASTER). 



Species 3 or perhaps i only in Java, India and central Asia. 



Myriactis wightii Wight ; Herb, Prop. ! ; F.B.I, as of 



DC, iii 247, XV I. Stem 5 to 20 inches, pilose. Leaves 



mostly from near the ground oblanceolate, more or less 



coarsely toothed or lobed or lyrate, 2 to 3 inches, upper 



ones l/^ inches, entire, oblanceolate. Flower-heads % 



to I inch, solitary on long axillary scapiform branches 



(peduncles) in the upper axils : involucral bracts narrow, 



all equal. Ray florets ^ inch, purplish blue or white ; 



limb Yz inch. Disc florets campanulate, four-lobed, 



yellow. Achenes egg-shaped, contracted just below the 



broad summit without pappus, t. 158. Wight Ic. 1091 ; 



Sp.Nilg. 107. 



Nilgiris: near Ootacamund. Pulneys : near Kodaikanal 

 and above (Bourne). Also Ceylon. 



ERIGERON. F.B.I. 78 XXII. 



Fleabajte. 



Annual or perennial herbs with alternate or radical 

 leaves and rayed flower-heads (of the ASTER kind) often 

 long stalked; and characterised by the ray florets white 

 or blue never yellow, in two or three circles ; involucral 

 bracts many and narrow ; and pappus hairs slender and 

 in one circle. 



Species perhaps 150, widely distributed in temperate regions 

 and the mountains of both hemispheres, some being ubiquitous 

 weeds. In Britain three species, Fleabane, Ger. Beschreikraut, 

 Fr. Vergerette. 



Very closely allied to aster, which however has but one circle of ray 

 florets (except of course garden *' doubles "). 



Erigcron alpinus Lmn. ; F.B.I, iii 255, XXII 5. Root- 

 stock horizontal, thick. Stem 8 to 12 inches, unbranched 



