ERIGERON. 
daisy, of about a foot high, in the damp mountain meadows of Cali- 
fornia, with blossoms lonely on their stalks, and narrow in the rays. 
E. elatior may be only a variety of EH. grandiflorus, a tall leafy affair 
with purple flowers, of some 2 feet high, from mountain stream sides in 
the Central Rockies. 
E. flagellaris is quite charming, but spreads at a devastating rate, 
running about everywhere, and perpetually increasing its mats of 
downy grey leaves, from which spring the single-stemmed daisies of 
whitish purple on stems of 5 inches or so throughout the summer. 
E. glabellus grows from 4 inches high to nearly 18 inches. The 
lower leaves are spoon-shaped, with foot-stalks, while the upper ones 
embrace the stems but leave off before they get to where it branches 
into a head of some half a dozen large lilac-purple Asters. All the 
leaves are untoothed at the edge, and all pretty nearly smooth, except 
for a fringe of hair at the edge. The flowers are very thick set with 
rays, having about a hundred, more or less. 
E. glandulosus is found in the mid-alpine region of Wyoming, 
where, from a stout stock, tufted with thick hairy leaves, oblong 
spoon-shaped, it sends up a number of stiff leafy stems of some 6 
inches or so, with flowers of reddish lilac as large as in the last (there 
is also a major form). 
E. glaucus is possibly a synonym of E. asper, which, like the 
beautiful sounding EL. formosissimus, is but annual or biennial. It is 
none the less a handsome plant, like a Samphire in leaf and habit, 
growing in the sea-rocks of California, which it adorns with its display 
of big stodgy violet daisies. 
E. hybridus, Asa Gray, is a hybrid of #. aurantiacus, with flowers 
in varying shades of apricot. 
E. intermedius is a fine species, emitting runners, and profuse with 
its noble large suns of clear lilac. 
E. levoméris (sometimes called H. spathulaefolius), is one of the 
very loveliest, a neat and exquisite thing for the choicest of spots. 
For it forms a tidy tuft of bright-green spoon-shaped foliage, which is 
perfectly smooth except for a certain amount of hair, perhaps, on the 
stems; and then, among these, alone on stalks of 3 or 4 inches, spring 
the most beautiful daisies of a curiously delicate and translucent 
lavender-blue, wanly pale indeed, and yet pure and clear and radiant. 
(From the Alps of Utah to those of Wyoming, and in the choice bed or 
moraine a treasure of especial charm.) 
. luteus lives in the sandy banks of the Yellowstone, there 
forming matted clumps of very narrow ash-grey foliage, which send 
up a great number of stems not more than 2 or 3 inches high, each one 
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