474 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



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

 TarJon\ authority for inferting this plant as a na- 

 tive, who believes that he gathered it near Blair^ 

 in Athol ^. VIII. 



The ftalk is two or three feet high, eredt, 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 calyy^ is nearly cylindrical : the 

 fcales are oval-lanceolate, the inferior oneslargeft 

 and almoft all green, the others yellowifli, with 

 green patent apices : the difc has many fine flender 

 female florets in the rim, and yellow hermaphro- 

 dite ones in the centre. 



The plant has an aromatic fmell. 



** Radiaii. 



ERIGERON. Gen. pL 951. 

 Recept, nudum. Pafpus pilofus. Cor. radii lineares, 



angulliflimse. 

 ERIGERON pedunculis alternis unifloris. Sp, pi. 

 121 1. (GV. emac. 484. /. 10. Pet. herb. t. 16./. 

 4. Moris, hijl. j\ 7. /. 20./. 2^. fed vitiofe quoni- 

 mn caulis ^ folia glabra funt expreffa. Columyu 

 ecph. 2. p. 25. /. 26) 

 Blue Fkabane. AngUs. 



In dry mountainous padures frequent. "^ . VIII. 

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

 rough and hairy, branched near the top with al- 

 ternate 



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