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. ERIGERON glaucum. 7 
- Fordyce’s Erigeron. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
ERIGERON. . (Recept. nudum. Sem. papposum. Flores radiati.) 
2 ‘ores radiati ligulis linearibus numerosis. Cad. oblongus imbricatus 
Mequalis. —Pappus pilosus. Ligue in aliis albide v. purpurascentes, 
wlew wn aliis quarum insuper anthere nonnunquam basi 2-fetose INULAS, 
wmdicant, Jussieu. gen. 180. R Wold! 
E, glaucum, foliis ciliatis, glaucis, viscosis ; radicalibus alato-petiolatis, 
Paucidentatis ; caulinis sessilibus integris. Sie 
erba perennis. Rhizoma carnoso-caudescens 3 caules superné ambientes, 
Plurés, ascendlentes, villosi, striato-teretes, pedales v. ultra ; pedunculi erecti, 
Pauct, inferné positi, axillares, distantes,  foliati, wniflori. Folia tenerdy 
Pruind cand & exsudato visco obducta, graveolentia, 3-nervia, venosa ; radicalia 
Purina, A-uncialia, spathulata, quasi in rosam approximata feré ac in BRAS- - 
ees amina obovatd, unciam lata, laxé 2 lateribus serrata, latum petiolum 
versis attenuatd; caulina decrescentia, angusté oblongata v. lanceobieay dis~ 
tantia, Flores erecti, solitarii, transverse. subbiunciales. Cal. -herbaceusy 
fo ne plurali polyphyllus, cequalis, patentissimus, confertus, disco isometer s 
oliola linearia, acuta, carinato dorso pilosa. Discus amplus, converus, flavus = 
Sc. villosi, extis toti papilloso-punctati, laciniis erectis: anth. flave, parti 
Emicantes : stig. 2, oblonga, crassiora, erectiora. Radius lilacinus, numerosus 
fosculis tot quot calyx foliolis?), explanatus, \integerrimus, 8-linearis 7] 
‘800 bis altior, inferne extis villosus, ligulis angusteé lanceolatis: stig. 2, capil. 
acea, replicata, in stylo productiori. Germ. utrique simillimum, verticale, 
compressum, sericeum, striatum: pappus sessilis, capillaris, obsolete denticulatus, 
bis longior. Recept. pulvinatum, nudum, scrobiculato-punctatum. — ire 
At first sight our plant appeared to resemble so closely 
Several both american and european species, with which 
We Were already acquainted, that we hardly expected. 
to ind it, as we did’upon a more attentive inspection, keep 
Specifically aloof from all which had been recorded in an 
Work known to us; and that it had not found its way into — 
the extensive Herbariums at Sir Joseph Banks’s or Mr. Lam- 
ert's. Not to rely upon ourselves, we had recourse to more 
than one learned botanist, who liberally communicated the 
Tesult of their researches, which agreed with our own. It 
"St appeared amongst us about three or four years ago, in 
© collection of the Comtesse de Vandes, whose expe- 
Menced and industrious gardener (after whom we have 
Called it in the english name) had raised it from seed, which 
© 18 almost sure came from South America, and he suspects 
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