JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Royal Hoetioultural Society. 



Vol. XXVI. 1901. 

 Parts II. and III. 



NEW PLANT. 



Note by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S. 



Erig'eron neomexicanus. Asa Gray.*— We are indebted to Mr. 

 Heinrich Henkel, of Darmstadt, for a specimen of this plant which differs 

 considerably from most of the species in cultivation. It is a biishy 

 annual or perennial, 12-18 inches high, slightly hispidulous, with striate, 

 angular, much -branched stems. The lower leaves are on long stalks, 

 oblong, remotely pinnately lobed, the lobes obovate obtuse, nearly or quite 

 entire, the terminal lobe toothed. In the cauline leaves the lobes are 

 •deeper and narrower, almost linear. Flower-heads solitary at the ends 

 of the branches, nearly 3 cent, across. Bracts of the involucre linear, with 

 a purple midrib. Ray florets white, linear, spreading. Disc flattish, with 

 very numerous yellow tubular flow^ers ; pappus plumose. The plant is a 

 native of hill-sides in New Mexico and Arizona. It was collected for 

 Mr. Henkel by Dr. C. A. Purpus, at an elevation of about 7,000 feet, so 

 that it is likely to prove hardy.— if. T. M. 



* " Erigeron neomexicanus," Asa Gray, Proc. Amcr. Acad. xix. 2. " A foot or two 

 high from a biennial or winter annual root, leafy, panieulately branched, hispidulous 

 or hispid, with spreading bristly hairs; divisions of the cauline leaves 3 toi), linear or 

 linear spatulate obtuse, of the radical shorter and broader ; rays white oi' purplish 

 tinged, narrowly linear, 4 or 5 lines long." —A. Gray, Synoptical Flora, vol. i. part 2 

 <1884), p. 219. 



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