composure. 109 
On banks and dry pastures and sand-hills, llathcr common 
in England, but in Scotland only known to occur on the sands of 
Barrie and Arbroath Links, Forfarshire. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. 
Summer and Autumn. 
Stem erect, slender, reddish, 3 to 15 inches high, simple in small 
specimens, rather sparingly branched in large ones. Anthodes 
rather longer than broad. Pericline about J inch long. Phyllaries 
with very slender crimson points, the inner ones scarious ; all 
spreading-reflexed after the achenes fall. Florets of the ray very 
slender. Achenes slightly hairy, yellowish, shorter than the pappus, 
which is almost always tinged with rusty red, but sometimes it is 
marly white, when it is E. serotinus of Reichenbach. Plant dull- 
green, clothed with long hairs, those on the leaves with the base 
enlarged. 
Blue Fleabane. 
French, Vergerette Acre. German, Scharfe Diirrwurz. 
SPECIES III.— B RIGERON ALPINUS. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXXV. 
. Ic Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXIV. Figs. 1, 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 110. 
E alpinum et E. uniflorum, Sm. Eng. Bot. Nos. 464 and 2416. 
Perennial. Stem simple or with 2 or 3 branches towards the 
top. Hoot- and lower stem-leaves narrowly-ohlanceolate, entire, 
spiculate, sub-pet iolate ; middle and upper stem-leaves few, sessile, 
scarcely semi - amplexicaul, oblong - strapshaped ; the uppermost 
linear - strapshaped. Anthodes solitary at the extremity of the 
-trni and branches. Peduncles simple, hairy, not glandular. 
Pericline hemispherical; phyllaries with the upper portion spread- 
ing, hairy, not glandular, linear, very acute. Elorets of the disk 
yellow, tubular, shorter than the pappus, the central ones per- 
fect, the outer ones female ; those of the ray spreading or 
linear, ligulate, female, purple, much longer than the pericline 
and pappus. Pappus reddish-white. Plant generally very hairy. 
(h\ ledges of alpine rocks. Hare. On the Breadalbane moun- 
tains in Perthshire, and in Glendole and Canlochcn Glen, Forfar- 
shire. 
Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
Ptootstock shortly creeping, branched, somewhat woody. Stems 
in the British speeimens 3 to 8 inehes high, and in all that I have 
