932 SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Erigeron. 
species, observing that the former sometimes bears a panicle of white 
flowers, and the calyxes smooth. Blossom purple and yellow. ( Calyx 
slightly hairy, not woolly as in E. uniflorum. Seeds bristly. FI. Brit. E.) 
(Alpine Flea-bane. E.) Found by Mr. Dickson on wet rocks on Ben 
Lawers; (but first discovered in this Island by the Rev. Mr. Stuart of 
Luss, on Ben Lawers, and on Shuc and Lochain. Mr. Brown. 
P. July. E.) 
(The real E. uniflorum of Linnaeus is reported to have been found also on Ben 
Lawers, and on rocks by the river Almond, near Lindoch, seven miles from 
Perth, by Mr. Don, but these two species still appear to be involved in 
ambiguity. Vid. Linn. Tr. x. 346. and E. Bot. 2416. We have now be¬ 
fore us Ben Lawers specimens from Mr. Brown, and a note by that 
learned Botanist to the following effect. “ I am nearly convinced that 
E. alpinum of Linn, as he himself suspected, is merely a variety of E. uni - 
Jlorum. Our plant, which does not perfectly correspond with the account 
he gives of either, may possibly be an intermediate var. The corollulce 
of the radius always purple ; the stem most frequently with only one 
flower, more rarely with two : the pappus never cc rufo-ferrugineus ,” but 
greyish, though this is probably a variable circumstance. One specimen 
gathered in Ireland had the pappus of a very dilute ferruginous colour. 
FI. Dan. 292. is certainly this plant, though the specimen there figured 
exceeds in size our native ones very considerably.” Respecting E. alpinum 
and uniflorum , Prof. Hooker observes, (( Smith gives to E. uniflorum the 
character of c florets of the ray erect,’ so they are frequently in E. alpi¬ 
num ; and as I can see no other mark either in Smith’s figure or in the 
specimens that I have received from the discoverer Mr. G. Don, I feel 
little hesitation in uniting the two.” E.) 
£. a'cre. (Stem racemose: peduncles mostly single-flowered: leaves 
lanceolate-tongue-shaped : sessile. E.) 
Curt. — {E. Bot. 1158. E.)— J. B. ii. 1043. 2 —Dod. 641. 4— Ger. Em. 484. 
10 —Park. 126. 6— Pet. 16. 4— Col. Ecphr. ii. 26. 2— H. Ox. vii. 20. 25. 
Stems six to eighteen inches high, somewhat angular, hairy, often purple. 
Leaves , the lower oval, tapering down into a leaf-stalk ; the upper spear- 
shaped, the uppermost strap-shaped, hairy on both sides, but mostly at 
the edge, very entire, often waved at the edge. Calyx scales unequal, 
awl-shaped, hairy. Florets of the circumference purple, a little longer 
than those of the centre ; florets of the centre yellow. Down sessile, sim¬ 
ple, yellow, as long as the florets. Woodw. Fruit-stalks supporting from 
one to three flowers. {Seeds rough. E.) 
Blue Flea-bane. (Welsh: Ammrhydllwyd rhuddlas. E.) Dry meadows 
and pastures in a calcareous soil. Narford, Norfolk; (and on old walls at 
Ely; E.) Mr. Woodward. St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol. Lime Rocks, 
Dudley. Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire. (Between Llanerch Bridge and 
the village of Dymerchion, Flintshire ; and about Denbigh Castle, in which 
stations it was pointed out to the Editor by Mr. Griffith.—In a copse a lit¬ 
tle to the east of Bradbury; in Langton Copse, near Blandford. Pulteney. 
On Newborough Common, Anglesey. Welsh. Bot. Ballast hills of 
Tyne and Wear; Hartlepool, Durham; Ryegate Hill, Surry. Mr. 
Winch. On a wall at Hords Park, and by the side of the turnpike road 
opposite to Faintree House, near Bridgnorth; At Allesley and Me¬ 
riden, Warwickshire. Bree, in Purton. Kingsgate, near Ramsgate. 
Mr. W. Christy. Spoonbed Hill, Painswick. Mr. Oade Roberts. On 
