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46. COM POSIT.®. 
Section 1. ASTERE.^. Heads never dioecious, mostly ra- 
diant. Anth. without ajipendages. L. alternate. 
4. (8.) Aster Linn. 
1. A. TripoUum (la.) ; st. glabrous corymbose, 1. linear-lan- 
ceolate fleshy smooth, involucre imbricate : scales obtuse mem- 
branous the inner. ones longer. — E. B. 87. Tripolium vulgare 
DC. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, erect, hollow, leafy, many-flowered. 
Heads large w ith a yellow disk and bright blue rays ; rays often 
wanting. — Muddy salt marshes. P. VHI. IX. 
5. (9.) Erigeron Linn. 
*1. E. canadensis (L.); st. much branched hairy panicled 
many-flowered, 1. linear-lanceolate ciliated. — E. B. 2019. — St. 
erect, 1 — 2 feet high. Heads numerous, small, yellowish. In- 
volucres cylindrical, scarcely shorter than the florets of the ray, 
finally spreading. — Waste ground, rai-e. A. VHI. IX. E. 
2. E. acris {L.)‘, st. corymbose, branches alternate bearing 
single heads, 1. linear-lanceolate entire spreading, lower 1. nar- 
rowed below, ray erect scarcely longer than the disk, inner female 
florets filiform numerous. — E. B. 1158. — St. erect, 6 — 18 in. 
high, simjile below, brandling in a corymbose manner above. 
FI. yellow, the ray pale blue. — Dry gravelly places. B. VII. 
VIII. Fleabane. 
3. E. alpinus (L.) ; st. mostly with a single head, 1. lanceolate, 
lower 1. narrow'ed below, ray spreading twice as long as the disk, 
“inner female florets tubular-filiform numerous. — E. B. 464. 
St. 38. II. — St. 4 — 8 in. high, usually terminating in a solitary 
head with a yellow disk and light purjile ray. Involucre hairy. 
— SI uniflorus; “involucre w'oolly, female florets all ligulate.” 
E. uniflorus Sm., E. B. 2416. — Highland mountains. P. VII. 
VIII. S. 
6. (16.) Bellis Linn. 
1. B. perennis (h.) •, 1. obovate-spathulate single-ribbed cre- 
nate-dentate. — E. B. 424. — St. a short procumbent rhizoma pro- 
ducing 1. only at its extremity. Flowerstalks simjfle, each bear- 
ing a single head. Sometimes all the florets are ligulate, rarely 
all are tubular. — Banks and jiastures. P. HI. — X. Daisy. 
7. (10.) SoLiDAGO ZiVm. 
1. S. Virgaurea (L.); st. erect slightly angular, 1. lanceolate 
narrowed at both ends, low’er 1. elliptical stalked serrated, raceme 
erect simple or compound, involucral scales lanceolate acute, fr. 
downy. — E. B. 301. St. 9. — St. usually I — 3 feet high, leafy, 
nearly simple, terminating in a long cluster of yellow heads. — 
S. angustifolia (Koch); 1. aU lanceolate. — y. cambrica (Sm.); 
