270 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
KE. MULTIRADIATUS (many-rayed). Stems 6 to 24 inches high. 
Leaves stalked, oblong, toothed. Flower-heads terminal, solitary, 2 
inches in diameter, purplish; June to August. Introduced from 
Himalaya (1880). 
E. Royer (Royle’s), Stems 4 to 8 inches high. Leaves oblong- 
spoon-shaped, fringed. Flower-heads bluish purple, 2 inches across, in 
loose corymbs; June to August. Native of Himalaya, 
E. sPEcIosuM (showy). Stems rounded, 18 inches high. Radical 
leaves spoon-shaped, stalked; stem-leaves stalkless, oblong, fringed. 
Flower-heads large, violet, the rays exceedingly slender; July to 
September. Native of Western North America, Plate 134, 
The directions given for the culture of Michaelmas 
Daisies will: apply equally to the Fleabanes, which are 
propagated by seed and division of the clumps. 
Description of Upper portion of ELrigeron speciosum. Fig. 1, section 
Flate 194. of flower-head ; 2, a ray-floret; 3, a disk-floret. 
Cultivation, 
EVERLASTING FLOWERS, I 
Natural Order Composirz. Genus Helipterum 
They are chiefly distinguished from the species of Acrocliniwm and 
Helichrysum by the pappus-hairs, which are in this genus branched 
one Plumelike (see Plate 135, Fig. 1). ‘The species are South African 
and Australian, 
