Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org
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TAB. 6530.<br />
ERIGERON MULTIRADIATUS.<br />
Native of the Himalaya Mountains.<br />
Nat. Ord. COHPOSHVE.•Tribe ASTEROIDEN.<br />
Genus ERIGERON, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 279.)<br />
ERIGERON (Phenactis) multiradiatus; pubescens v. hirsutus, caule simpliri v.<br />
• parce ramoso gracili v. robusto ssepius monocephalo, foliis radicalibus nullis v.<br />
longe petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis v. oblanceolatis obtusis acntisve in petiolum<br />
decnrrentibus integris v. paucidentatis, caulinis brevibus p&tentibna basi lata<br />
»mnlpxirauli sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis v. acnminatis, capitulis maguía<br />
2~2h poll. diam.,involucrilatecampanulati bracteislineari-lanceolatisacuminatis<br />
pubescentibas et ciliatis, floribus glabris, lignlis numerosissimis 2-3 serialibus<br />
involucro duplo longioribus angostas purpureis, acheniis oblongis subsericeis,<br />
pappi setis paucis scabridis externis brevissimis.<br />
E. inultiradiatus, Benth. in Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 280 (sub Sect. Phenactis) ; Clarke<br />
Compos. Ind. 56.<br />
Aster multiradiatus, Wall. Cat. 2969.<br />
A. inuloides, Don Prodr. Fl. Nip. p. 178.<br />
Diplopappua Iloylei, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 276?<br />
Stenactis multiradiatus, Lindl. in DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 299.<br />
One of the most beautiful of the alpine Himalayan Com-<br />
posite, but very variable and difficult to distinguish from<br />
form of neighbouring species, especially of E. alpinus, to<br />
which small states of it approach very closely. E. multi-<br />
radiatus is, however, in its normal state a much larger and<br />
handsomer plant, with the heads usually at least two inches<br />
in diameter, and of a fine bright purple colour. In rich<br />
moist soil old plants grow two feet high and branch wry<br />
considerably, and the radical leaves disappear early, giving<br />
the plant a very different appearance from that of its younger<br />
state, in which the habit is scapigerous, and the radical<br />
leaves copious.<br />
E. multiradiatus is a native of grassy wet pastures along<br />
the whole length of the Hi mal ay an range, from Kashmir, where<br />
it inhabits elevations of 7000 to 9000 feet, to Sikkim, where<br />
DECEJIBEB lsr, 1880.
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