18 Rhodora [JANUARY 
long-ciliate— NEWFOUNDLAND: dry exposed ledges and shingle on 
the limestone tableland, altitude 200-300 m., Table Mountain, Port 
3 Port Bay, July 16 & 17, 1914, Fernald & St. John, no. 10,866 
(TyPE in Gray Herb.). 
A very extreme variant of the common little Erigeron hyssopifolius 
of slaty and calcareous gravels and damp ledges in the Canadian and 
Hudsonian districts. Ordinarily (and in Michaux’s type material) 
the taller branching and densely tufted stems and the pedicels are 
glabrous or only sparingly pilose and the otherwise glabrous leaves are 
at most sparingly short-ciliolate on the margin and midrib. 
longis cum glandulis stipitatis minutis mixtis; foliis imis lanceolatis vel 
callous-dentate: cauline leaves 1 or 2 pairs; the lower lanceolate, 
2-4.5 em. long, glandular and villous, with a blunt callous Up; 
upper much reduced, linear or lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, often with a 
linear-attenuate scarious appendage at tip: heads solitary, very 
handsome, 4.5 cm. broad; involucre about 1.5 cm. high, densely 
villous at base, glandular and loosely villous above ; bracts 8-10, 
i 5 m ing the middle to 4 
- the oblong- 
ovate blade 1.3-1.5 em. long, 7-8 mm. broad, conspicuously 7-9- 
nerved, strigose on the back, the apex sharply 3—4-toothed, the ee 
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