ERIGERON. 
already sufficient value of its fine foliage and brilliant flowers. There 
are white forms and better forms, and better forms even of the white 
(to say nothing of the fact that it grows in any soil and enjoys lime). 
The others, with their belis of amaranth, rose, or waxy flesh-colour, 
are chiefly asked for in low sunny stretches of sand or peat, where 
they may, when not busied with their own beauties, make themselves 
useful by acting as cover to lilies, daffodils, and other bulbs of medium 
growth whose loveliness never looks so serene or proves more im- 
pregnable to the changes and chances of the weather than when 
they are sprouting from some lax fine mat of the dwarfer heaths. 
Erigéron.—This Aster-like race (and, like Aster, attaining large 
sizes as well as small) can easily be known from the rival family. Look 
more closely at any purple Aster-flower—if the purple rays are in one 
row only, no matter how crowded, then the plant is a true Aster ; if 
those crowded rays are in several or many rows, then it is a true 
Erigeron, and as such a thing of general garden value quite equal to 
Aster, similar in habits and needs, and similar in times of blooming, 
except that Erigeron is usually rather earlier than Aster, and certainly 
leaves off sooner. 
E. argentatus is by some authorities now called Wyomingia. It is, 
in point of fact, a beautiful Erigeron from the deserts of Colorado, 
Utah, and Nevada, forming densely clustered tufts of narrow spoon- 
shaped leaves all silver with a close coating of down, and then from 
these tufts arise many stems of some 4 inches or a foot high, each 
carrying one large broad-rayed violet Aster about an inch and a half 
wide. This should have a warm, well-drained, dryish place. 
E. aurantiacus, a very well-known and handsome garden plant with 
orange flowers, which need not be at all out of place in the rock- 
garden. 
E. compositus, sometimes also called LH. multifidus, is a lovely little 
species of neat small habit, making a flattened tuft of tidy hand- 
shaped leaves, which are then slashed and cut into three lobes, and 
these again divided into more. The whole clump is inclined to be 
sticky, and is usually hairy, though sometimes almost smooth when 
older. The delicate daisies of palest lavender are carried solitary 
in summer on quite short stems of 2 inches or so. (For moraine or 
choice corner.) 
E. concinnus is a rare plant of the Pacific Slope, with tufts of very 
narrow leaves clothed in long white hairs, and branching stems of 
some 4 to 8 inches, set with leaves, and carrying blue flowers about 
an inch and a half across. 
H. Coulteri is like a leafy-stemmed great white- or mauve-tinged 
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