cojiPosnvTC. 109 



On banks and dry iiastuvcs and sand-hills. Rather common 

 in England, but in Scotland only known to occur on the sands of 

 Barrio and Arbroath Links, Eorfarshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland, Annual or Biennial. 

 Summer and Autumn. 



Stem erect, slender, reddish, 3 to 15 inches high, simple in small 

 specimens, rather sparingly branched in large ones. Authodcs 

 ratlier longer than broad. Pericline about ^ inch long. Phyllaries 

 with very slender crimson points, the inner ones scarious ; all 

 spreading-reflexed after the achenes fall. Florets of the ray very 

 slender. Achenes slightly hairy, yellowish, shorter than the pappus, 

 which is almost always tinged with rusty red, but sometimes it is 

 nearly Avhite, when it is E. serotinus of Reichenbach. Plant dull- 

 green, clothed with long hairs, those on the leaves with the base 

 enlarged. 



Blue Flcabcme. 



French, Venjerelte Acre. GermaD, Scharfe Diirnourz. 



SPECIES III.— ERIGERON ALPINUS. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXXV. 



RMl Ic. F1. Germ, et H.lv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXIV. Figs. 1, 2. 



Bilhl, Fl. (Jail, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 110. 



E. al|iiiiura et E. unifloruui, Sm. Eng. Bot. Nos. 464 and 2416. 



Perennial. Stem simple or with 2 or 3 branches towards the 

 top. Root- and lower stem-leaves narrowly-oblanceolate, entire, 

 apicnlate, sub-petiolate ; middle and upper stem-leaves few, sessile, 

 scarcely semi - amplexicaul, oblong - strapshaped ; the uppermost 

 linear - strapshaped. Anthodes solitary at the extremity of the 

 stem and branches. Peduncles simple, hairy, not glandular. 

 Pericline hemispherical ; phyllaries with the upper portion spread- 

 ing, hairy, not glandular, linear, very acute. Elorets of the disk 

 yellow, tubular, shorter than the pappus, the central ones per- 

 fect, the outer ones female ; those of the ray spreading or 

 linear, ligulate, female, purple, much longer than the pericline 

 and pappus. Pappus reddish-white. Plant generally very hairy. 



On ledges of alpine rocks. Rare. On the Breadalbane moun- 

 tains in Perthshire, and in Glendole and Canlochen Glen, Forfar- 

 shire. 



Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Rootstock shortly creei)ing, l)ranchcd, somewhat woody. Stems 

 in the British specimens o to b inches high, and in all that I have 



