474 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



in dry mountainous foils, but rare. We have Dr. 

 Par/en's authority for inferting this plant as a na- 

 tive, who believes that he gathered it near Blairy 

 in Atkol. $ . VIII. 



The fcalk is two or three feet high, erect, firm and 

 branch'd : the leaves are foft and hairy, a little 

 hoary underneath, of an oval-lanceolate form, 

 nightly ferrated on the edges : the flowers are 

 yellow, and grow in loofe umbels at the tops of 

 the branches : the calyx is nearly cylindrical : the 

 fcales are oval-lanceolate, the inferior ones largeil 

 and almoft all green, the others yellowifli, v/ith 

 green patent apices : the difc has many fine flender 

 female florets in the rim, and yellow hermaphro- 

 dite ones in the centre. 



The plant lias an aromatic fmell. 



*■* Radiati. 



ERIGERON. Gen. pi 951. 

 Recept. nudum. Pa-ppus pilofus. Cor. radii lineares, 



anguibflimn?. 

 ERIGERON pedunculis alternis unifloris. Sp. pi. 

 121 1. {Ger. emac. 484. /. 10. Pet. herb, t.^ 16./. 

 4. Moris, hijf. f. 7. /. 20./. 2^. fed vitiofe quoni- 

 am caulis £5? folia glabra funt exprejfa. Column, 

 ecph. 2. p. 25. /. iG) 

 Blue Fleabane. /mglis. 



In dry mountainous paflures frequent. '^. VIII. 

 The root is fibrous and acrid : the flalk a foot high, 

 rough and hairy, branched near the top with al- 



rernare 



