SEASIDE DAISY. BEACH ASTER (Erigeron glaucus, Ker.). 

 Flower heads a couple of inches across or more, disk florets 

 yellow, rays violet or lilac, narrow, exceedingly numerous 

 (sometimes 100 or more) in several rows; borne singly at the 

 tips of ascending stems 4 inches to a foot high. Leaves alter- 

 nate, mostly clustered at the base forming a crown to a fleshy 

 rootstalk, pale green and succulent, the largest 3 or 4 inches 

 long and 1 inch wide, those of the stem small and few. A 

 perennial plant common along the coast within the influence 

 of the ocean, from Oregon to the Santa Barbara Channel Is- 

 lands, flowering throughout most of the year. 



The Seaside Daisy, or Beach Aster, is one of the noticeable 

 wild flowers on seaside downs, especially from Monterey 

 northward, and its resemblance to the single, bluish-flowered 

 China Asters of gardens is marked enough to make it of easy 

 recognition. The genus Erigeron is, indeed, exceedingly near 

 to Aster, the distinguishing characters being mostly of tech- 

 nical importance only. To the amateur the feature of Erig- 

 eron that is most striking is the narrowness and great number 

 of the rays, which, moreover, are arranged usually in several 



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