Felicia.] lxxiii. composite] (Oliver and hiern). 807 



serrulate, hirsute or setose, ^— f in. long. Capitula hemispherical, ^ in. 

 wide (exclusive of ray), solitary terminal on naked glandular-puberu- 

 lous peduncles 1-2 in. long. Involucral scales 3-4- seriate, linear- lan- 

 ceolate acutely acuminate, glandular-pubescent where exposed ; outer 

 stouter, loosely appressed. Receptacle naked. Ray-florets revolute, 

 linear- oblong, sky-blue or violaceous. Achenes thinly setulose. Pappus 

 uniseriate scabrid white caducous. — PuUcaria viscida, R. Br. in Salt, 

 Trav. App. p. Ixv. fide Sch. Bip. in Schw. Fl. ^thiop. 307. F. Schiml 

 jperiy St. et Hochst. ; Jaub. et Spach, 111. PI. Or. t. 354. 



xrile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! and others ; Somali-land, HUdebraiidt. 



Extends to Arabia Felix. 



19. ERIGERON, L. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 279. 



Capitula heterogamous ; florets of ray numerous l-oo -seriate pis- 

 tillate, disk-florets perfect (or staminate). Involucre hemispherical or 

 campanulate, scales subbiseriate narrow, outer usually rather stouter. 

 Receptacle naked (more rarely alveolate and fimbrilliferous). Ray- 

 florets all or outer only ligulate, ligule narrow or filiform ; disk-florets 

 tubular, slightly dilated to the 6-4-toothed mouth. Anther-base 

 obtuse unappendaged. Style-branches more or less flattened, lanceo- 

 late or ovate- lanceolate (rarely, linear) papillose. Achenes much or 

 slightly compressed, often with reniform margins. Pappus setaceous, 

 1-seriate (or biseriate). — Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 entire, toothed (or divided). Capitula various in size, solitary or 

 cymose. Ray violet purple or white. 



A large genus of the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



Heads singly terminating the branches, f-1 in. diam. . . . 1. ^. alpinus. 



Heads laxly cymose, | in. diam 2. E. Grantii. 



1. S. alpinus, Unn. 8p. Plant, edit. i. p. 864 (1753) ; DC. Prodr. 

 V. 291. Erect herb, with strict ascending, sparsely pubescent striate 

 branches, terminating in solitary or subsolitary capitula. Leaves 

 (cauline) alternate or rarely subopposite, linear-oblong or elongate- 

 lanceolate, mucronate, with a wide sessile somewhat clasping base, 

 submembranous, quite entire, thinly strigillose on both sides or gla- 

 brate, 1-obscurely 3-nerved, ranging up to 3 in. long by'g in. broad. 

 Capitula hemispherical, oo -flowered, :J— 1 in. diameter, on erect strigose- 

 hispid peduncles 1-5 in. long. Scales of involucre subbiseriate, nar- 

 rowly linear-lanceolate, acute, pilose with whitish spreading rather 

 stiff" and broad hairs ; inner ones rather more and outer ones rather 

 less than ^ in, long. Receptacle naked, J in. diameter. Ray-fl. 

 1-seriate, purple, not broader than involucral scales and exceeding 

 them by about the length of the latter, erect-patent. Interior female 

 fl. tubular-filiform, numerous. Achenes narrowly obovoid-oblong, 

 compressed, with 2 strong lateral nerves, thinly pilose. Pappus uni- 

 seriate, subrufous, barbellate, twice length of achene. — E. glahratus^ 

 Hoppe et. Hornsch. ; Vatke in Linneea xxxix. p. 481 (1875). 



Wile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Occurs in several forms in the Alps and Arctic regions of both the Old and New 

 World, except Australia. 



