ERIGERON. 
spoon-shaped. This is also cailed H. bellidifolius, the leaves being 
obviously suggestive of a common Daisy’s. In the descriptions of 
E. pulchellus, however, from the Alps of Asia Minor, the stature seems 
to be smaller, the number of flowers less, and their colour pinkish. 
E. pulcherrimus (Wyomingia), a leafy tuft marked with yellowish 
lines, from which ascend stems of some four and a half inches, carrying 
large goodly Asters in a range of colour from white, through pink, to 
violet, the whole plant being clad in a down of close-pressed white 
hairs. (Sandy places of New Mexico, &c.) 
E. radicatus, from the highest alpine regions of the Central Rockies, 
follows exactly after the lovely habit of H. leiomeris, making a little 
tuft of narrow spoon-shaped hairy foliage, from which springs a 
quantity of delicate lavender-biue daisies, alone on stems of 2 inches 
or rather more. This might also, with luck, be met with under the 
disguise of LH. Parryi, E. Scribnert, or LE. vetensis. 
EH. salsuginosus is a handsome rank species, almost best fitted for 
the border, growing about 2 feet high, and crowded with sprays of big 
narrow-rayed flowers rather fine and ragged in outline, of lilac-pink or 
white. The leaves are smooth and thick and perfectly untoothed, 
and the plant is found in the damp mountain region of the Central 
Rockies, &c., taking a specially beautiful high-alpine form called 
E. s. glacialis, and sometimes recognised as a species—quite dwarf, 
and with only one bloom to the stem. J. angustifolius is also very 
near this. 
FH. speciosus is smooth also, except sometimes for a few white hairs. 
It makes a woody base, from which arise a number of stiff straight 
stems of some 12 to 20 inches, set more or less in the embrace of 
narrow leaves, with leaf-like continuations down their stalk; the 
flowers are fine and large, about two and a half inches across, and 
lilac-blue. ‘This has also been called EL. conspicuus (Rydb.). 
LH. subtrinervis is much the same, but finely downy, with blossoms 
of blue or pink. 
HE. superbus.—A rather vague species, fading away into H. salsugi- 
nosus and HE. macranthus, to both of which, in any case, it stands very 
near; its principal official differences lying in the usually undividing 
upright stems, the fewer, larger, more distant leaves (more or less 
fringed with hair), and the fewer but larger flowers in loose heads. 
E. trifidus (E. flabellifolius, Rydb.) is a close cousin to dainty H# 
compositus, of which it has the same foliage, habit, and flowers, but 
that here the leaves are rather fleshy and the whole growth hairy. 
E. Tweedyanus (Wyomingia) is about 4 to 8 inches high, and white 
with wool when young, with narrow leaves and naked stems, each 
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