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ErigeronJ] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 255 



plant, there is no specimen in the Wallichian Herbarium, nor is there of Conyza gra~ 

 veolens (Wall. Cat. 3106, Herb. Madr.), which is referred by DC. to E. kispidum. 



2. Species of the temperate and Alpine regions. 



3. E. andryaloid.es, Benth. in Herb. Kew ; perennial, densely softly 

 tomentose or woolly, leaves petioled spathulate entire or lobulate, heads f in. 

 diara. on a very naked scape-like stem, invol. bracts linear acute, ligules short 

 broad revolute, pappus white then reddish. Clarke Comp. 2nd. 52. Conyza 

 andryaloides, DC. Prodr. v. 377. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Lahul and Kunawur, Boyle, 4" c - WESTERN TIBET, alt. 

 9-18,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 



Rootstock woody, very stout. Leaves 1-2 in., densely crowded. Scapes in., 

 with one or two small linear leaves or 0. Invol. bracts woolly or pubescent. Achencs 

 I in. flat narrow silky; pappus rather longer, 1 -seriate. 



4. E. monticolus, DC. Prodr. v. 286 ; perennial, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy, leaves petioled, radical rosulate obovate-lanceolate acute subentire, heads 

 solitary or few on a slender scape-like stem, ligules many twice as long- as the 

 pappus. Wall. Cat. 2977. 



TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich Kumaon, Strath. $ Winterb. 

 In its usual form a scapigerous plant, but sometimes branching, and then appa- 

 rently passing into E. bellidioides. 



6. E. alpinus, Linn\ Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 165; biennial or perennial, 

 hispidly hairy or glabrate, radical leaves petioled spreading obovate or oblong- 

 obovate, cauline usually sessile obovate or oblong, heads solitary or corymbose 

 -f in. diain., invol. bracts pubescent tomentose or woolly, ligules rarely ex- 

 ceeding the length of the reddish pappus, achenes sub-silkv. E. acre, Clarke 

 Comp. 2nd. 52 ; Herb. 2nd. Or. Hook. f.$T. 



Throughout the TEMPEEATB and ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA, the KHASIA and 

 NILGHERRY MTS. DISTRIB. Mountains of the N. temp. zone. 



I have in vain tried to draw any distinction between this common Himalayan 

 Erigeron and E. alpinus, which is itself in my opinion only a form of E. acris ; nor 

 does the difficulty end here, for I find it almost as difficult to separate E. bellidioides 

 and^multiradiat'us by any definite characters, whilst E. ntonticolus seems to pass into 

 the beU.idioides on one hand, and on the other, into E. andryaloides. The following 

 varieties are not strictly definable, they represent prevalent forms. 



VAR. 1. alpinus proper ; hispid heads subsolitary f in. diam., invol. bracts subu- 

 late-lanceolate, ligules longer than the pappus. 



VAR. 2. .multicai^lis ; more glabrous, stem much branched from the base, branches 

 Blender, heads rather small usually long-peduncled corymbose, pappus hairs scanty 

 shorter ones very few. E. multicaulis, Wall. Cat, 3286 ; DC. Prodr. v. 292. Tempe- 

 rate and Alpine Himalaya, from Nipal westward and Western Tibet. 



VAR. 3. semibarbata ; more robust and hairy or hispid, leaves often 3-nerved, 

 cauline ^-amplexi -aul or narrowed at the base, heads 2-3 in. diam. few larger, ped- 

 uncles often thickened at the top, the lateral often spreading, tube of ray-fl. with 

 long hairs, ligules twice as long as the pappus. E. semibarbatus and ? Ttoylei, DC. 

 Prodr. v. 292. Western Himalaya, abundant. 



VAR. 4. khasiana ; erect, hairy, stem usually unbranched below, radical leaves 

 very crowded obovate-lanceolate, cauline sessile, heads few peduncled, ligules twice as 

 long as the red rather copious pappus the shorter hairs of which are rather numerous. 

 E. bellidioides, var. khasiana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 55. Khasia Mts., alt. 3-6000 ft., 

 Bhotan, Griffith. 



VAR. 5. Wightii; stout, hispid, stem usually unbrsmched below, radical leaves 

 many oblong-lanceolate, cauline narrowed at the base, heads 2-3 in. diam. few long- 

 peduncled, ligules as long as the copious pappus, shorter hairs rather numerous. E. 



