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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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17. Erigeron Camphoratum ; Virginian Erigeron. Leaves 

 lanceolate-ovate, villose ; serratures cartilaginous at the tip. 

 This plant is annual, and a native of Virginia. 



18. Erigeron Japonicum ; Japan Erigeron. Leaves ses- 

 sile, obovate, serrate, villose ; flowers panicled. Annual : 

 stem simple, filiform, hairy, upright, a foot high ; leaves atte- 

 nuated to the petioles, half stem-clasping, obtuse, upright, 

 an inch in length ; flowers terminating; feather simple, ferru- 

 ginous. Native of Japan, where it flowers in June. 



19. Erigeron Scandens; Climbing Erigeron. Leaves ovate, 

 serrate, villose; flowers axillary; stem climbing, filiform, 

 branched, purplish, smooth. Leaves from each bud three or 

 four, subsessile, sharp, with setaceous teeth, villose on both 

 sides, half an inch in length ; flowers among the leaves, axil- 

 lary, solitary. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



20. Erigeron Tuberosum ; Tzdicrous-rooted Erigeron. 

 Leaves linear; branches one-flowered; stem suffruticose. 

 Root perennial, bitten ; stem short, woody ; branches simple, 

 one-flowered ; flowers yellow, terminating, sessile ; feather 

 gray. Native of the south of France, and Syria. 



21. Erigeron Foetidum; Stinking Erigeron. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate-linear, retuse ; flowers corymbed ; root perennial, 

 thick, fibrous, from which arise several upright hairy stalks, 

 near four feet high, putting out several side-branches. The 

 stem is terminated by several large corymbs of golden- 

 coloured flowers, which appear late in the autumn, continue 

 in beauty during great part of the winter, fade in the spring, 

 and are sometimes succeeded by oval seeds, which ripen in 

 England ; the stems generally decay the second year, and are 

 then supplied by new ones from the same root ; the old ones, 

 with their green hairy leaves, remaining in vigour until the 

 young ones are grown to a considerable height. It has been 

 long cultivated in the gardens of curious Europeans. It is 

 too tender to thrive in the open air in this country, so the 

 plants should be kept in pots ; and if in the winter they are 

 placed in a common frame, where they may have a large 

 share of free air in mild weather, and screened from hard 

 frosts, they will thrive better than with tender treatment. It 

 is easily propagated by cuttings, which, if planted in May, 

 will readily put out roots, and the young plants will flower 

 the autumn following. 



22. Erigeron Obliquum ; Oblique-leaved Erigeron. Very 

 much branched ; leaves ovate, oblique. 'Annual: stem her- 

 baceous, a hand high, round, erect, hairy, branching very 

 much; branches from all the axils, the lower ones gradually 

 longer, diffused at top, dicbotomous, opposite ; flowers soli- 

 tary, the length of the peduncle, one-flowered, copious ; calix 

 cylindric, pubescent, with numerous, equal, subulate, ap- 

 proximating leaflets ; corollas yellow ; stigmas of the disk 

 erect, of the ray patulous. Native of the East Indies. 



23. Erigeron Tricuneatum ; Wedge-leaved Erigeron. Some- 

 what shrubby: leaves wedged, three-lobed. A small shrub, 

 very much branched or panicled, leafy ; flowers terminating, 

 sessile, several, heaped together, the length of the leaf; calix 

 the size of a Lentil-seed. Native of Mexico. 



24. Erigeron Pinnatum. Leaves pinnatifid, toothed; 

 stem herbaceous, upright, a foot high, somewhat hispid, 

 simple; flowers terminating, subglomerate, yellow; feather 

 white. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



2.5. Erigeron Sumatrense. Tomentose: flowers raceme- 

 panicled ; leaves lanceolate, subserrate ; stem three feet high 

 and more, round, streaked, tomentose, red ; peduncles long, 

 raceme-panicled, with one or two narrow lanceolate leaves on 

 them, generally entire. Native of Sumatra. 



26. Erigeron Scriceum ; Silky-leaved Erigeron. Flowers 

 panicled; leaves ovate-lanceolate, tomentose, silky, entire, 



and serrate, appendicled at the base; stem upright, simple; 

 tomentose; panicle diffused. Native of Java. 



27. Erigeron Hirsutum. Stem hispid; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, subserrate, very hairy on both sides. Stem her- 

 baceous, two feet high, erect, round; flowers few, in a termi- 

 nating erect panicle; florets in the disk yellow, in the ray 

 stiff", quite entire, blue, many. Native of China, near Canton. 



28. Erigeron Rivulare. Leaves wedge-shaped, acute, rough 

 with hairs, toothed on both sides at the tip, ciliate on the 

 edge, those on the stem sessile; stem almost simple, erect, 

 few-flowered. Annual : native of Jamaica and Hispaniola. 



29. Erigeron Decurrens. Leaves decurrent, linear, to- 

 mentose; flowers panicled; stem erect, striated, pubescent, 

 tomentose at top; branches woody, pedicels capillary, with 

 a pair of minute leaflets towards the tip; calices villose; 

 scales bristle-shaped, shorter than the down ; corollas of the 

 ray naked. Native of Arabia. 



30. Erigeron Incanum. Leaves linear, tomentose, toothed 

 a little ; flowers corymbed. This is a shrub with tomentose 

 branches; corymbs terminating, many-flowered ; calix subvil- 

 lose, with linear leaflets; corollets of the ray naked; down 

 ferruginous, longer than the calix. Native of Arabia Felix. 



Eringo. See Eryngium. 



Erinus; a genus of the class Didynamia, order Angiosper- 

 mia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five-leaved; 

 leaves lanceolate, upright, nearly equal, permanent. Corolla : 

 one-petaUed, unequal; tube ovate-cylindric, length of the 

 calix, bent back ; border flat, five-parted ; divisions equal, 

 obcordate. Stamina: filamenta four, very short, within the 

 tube of the corolla, of which the two opposite ones are a 

 little longer. Antheree small. Pistil: germen somewhat 

 ovate; style very short; stigma headed. Pericarp: capsule 

 ovate, rolled up in the calix, two-celled, gaping two ways. 

 Seeds. 1 numerous, small. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: 

 five-leaved. Corolla: border five-cleft, equal, with the lobes 

 emarginate; upper lip very short, reflex. Capsule: two- 

 celled. The species are, 



1. Erinus Alpinus; Alpine Erinus. Flowers racemed; 

 leaves spatulate ; root perennial. The root-leaves form a thick 

 tuft close to the ground ; they are all linear-spatulate, pubes- 

 cent, with a few serratures at the end on both sides ; stems 

 many, very simple, a hand high, round, pubescent, upright, 

 the side ones barren and decumbent; flowers alternate, 

 separated by leaves like those on the stem, but smaller, and 

 forming an upright simple raceme ; corolla funuel-shaped. 

 The leaves are about half an inch long, and one-eighth of an 

 inch broad, of a dark green, on the stem alternate ; the flower- 

 stalk is scarcely two inches high ; the flowers are in a loose 

 raceme, and purple ; they appear in May, or earlier, and some- 

 times are succeeded by ripe seeds in July. This is a desirable 

 little plant for the decoration of rock-work, growing in close 

 tufts, and producing its numerous lively purple flowers during 

 most of the summer months. Native of Germany, of the 

 Swiss Alps, of the Pyrenees, and the south of France. This 

 is propagated by parting the roots in autumn ; requires a 

 shady situation, and a loamy soil without dung. 



2. Eriuus Africanus. Flowers lateral, sessile ; leave* lance- 

 olate, somewhat toothed ; stem herbaceous, branched, a span 

 long-, declined; flowers solitary, in the axils of the leaves, 

 purple, slender. Native of Africa. 



3. Erinus Capensis. Flowers spiked; leaves linear, toothed; 

 perennial. Stem erect, round, pubescent, two feet high ; spike 

 terminating, oblong, imbricate, with broader, ovate-lanceolate, 

 toothed bractes ; corolla yellow, smelling very sweet ; tube 

 filiform, three times as long as the calix ; style filiform, the 

 length of the tube. Native of the Cape. 





