220 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
Gray, Fl. 2. p. 165. Banks of the Liano. October. Also 
on the Brazos. “Shrubby, 6 to 8 feet high; the perennial 
stems half an inch thick, branching above [the branches her- _ 
baceous]. Leaves few and small, [scale-like or subulate], 
spinescent or soft, or none.” Lindh. 
(626.) Ertceron CANADENSE f. GLABRATUM. E. strictum, 
DC.! Prodr. 5. p. 989, sed panicula composita expansa. 
Prairies north of the Liano, among granite rocks. October. 
—De Candolle’s E. strictum is certainly not to be distin- 
guished as a species from E, Canadense. 
(627.) E. mopestum, Gray, Pl. Fendl. in Mem. Amer. 
Acad. n. ser. 4. p. 68.  Distasis modesta, D C., Prodr. 5. p. 
279? Rocky soil, north of New Braunfels, and near the © 
sources of the Pierdenales. June and October. — The 
squamellz and the fragile setze of the pappus are more numer- 
ous than in the character of Distasis modesta, DC. Our 
plant is an undoubted Erigeron. Had it more numerous rays 
it would fall into the section Phalacroloma, before E. tenue. 
As it is, it belongs rather to Pseuderigeron. 
414. EcrrTEs ramosissima, Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. T1. 
Aphanostephus ramosissimus, DC. Prodr. 5. p. 310. A. 
Riddelli, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 9. p. 189. Dry, sandy, or 
stony prairies of the Guadaloupe and Pierdenales. April 
to August. — In cultivation this plant flowers abundantly 
through the whole summer, and is quite ornamental. The 
heads droop before anthesis; and the white rays are usually 
tinged with pink or purple underneath. 
415. KEERLIA BELLIDIFOLIA (Gray & Engelm. in Proceed. 
E Acad. 1. p. 47): annua, diffusa, hirsutulo-pubescens ; 
caulibus foliosis dichotomo-ramosis; ramis ramulisque mono- 
cephalis; foliis spathulatis obtusis mucronulatis integerrimis, 
summis sublinearibus, omnibus inferne attenuatis, radicalibus 
obovatis petiolatis ; involucri campanulati squamis biserialibus 
oblongis membranaceis nitidis Peyton angin 
bus late scariosis; ligulis (cyaneis) 9-14 ineari-ob 
fl. disci ee fertilibus; ached 
