COMPOSITAE, Vor. Til. 
12. Erigeron Bellididstrum Nutt. Western 
Daisy Fleabane. Fig. 4372. 
Erigeron Bellidiastrum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 7: 
307. 1841. 
Annual, much branched, 6-15’ high, cinereous-pubes- 
cent throughout. Leaves entire, linear-spatulate, the 
lower and basal petioled, 1-14’ long, the upper sessile 
and smaller; heads several or numerous, 5”-8” broad; 
involucre hemispheric, about 2” high, its bracts linear, 
hirsute, acute; rays 30-65, purplish, about 2” long; 
pappus a single series of capillary bristles. 
In moist soil, South Dakota to Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, 
Wyoming and Arizona. May-July. 
13. Erigeron 4nnuus (L.) Pers. Sweet Scabious. White-top. Fig. 4373. 
Aster annuus L. Sp. Pl. 875. 
Erigeron annuus Pers. Syn. 2: 431. 
1807. 
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Annual, sparingly pubescent with spreading hairs ; 
stem erect, corymbosely branched, 1°-4° high. Leaves 
thin, the lower and basal ones ovate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, mostly obtuse, petioled, usually coarsely 
dentate, 2’-6’ long, 1-3’ wide, the upper sessile or 
short-petioled, lanceolate, oblong, or linear-lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, mostly sharply dentate in 
the middle, those of the branches narrower and ~ 
often entire; heads rather numerous, 5’-7” broad, 
mostly short-peduncled; bracts of the hemispheric 
involucre somewhat hispid; rays 40-70, linear, 
white, or commonly tinged with purple, 2’-4” long; 
pappus double, the inner a series of slender fragile 
deciduous bristles, often wanting in the ray-flowers, 
the outer a persistent series of short, partly united, 
slender scales. 
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14. Erigeron ramésus (Walt.) B.S.P. 
Daisy Fleabane. Fig. 4374. 
Doronicum ramosum Walt. Fl. Car. 205. 1788. 
E. strigosus Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1956. 1804. 
te aes F, & M. Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 
5: 1838. 
Erigeron ramosus B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 27. 1888. 
Erigeron ramosus Beyrichii Smith & Pond, Bot. Surv. 
Neb. 2: 11. 1893. : 
Resembles the preceding species, but is usually 
lower and the pubescence more appressed. Stem 
leaves linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, nearly 
all of them entire; basal and lowest spatulate or 
oblong, usually serrate; bracts of the involucre 
glabrous or nearly so; pappus similar to that of 
the preceding; rays white, or sometimes purplish, 
occasionally minute or wanting. 
In fields, Nova Scotia to British Columbia, Florida, 
Louisiaha, Texas and California. Naturalized in 
Europe. White-top. May-Nov. 
