ERIGERON MINOR (Hook).
E. glabratzts var. minor Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 18. 1834.
E. armcriaefolms Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 648. In part. 1870. Not Turcz.
Gray includes in E. al menaefolills two distinct American plants. Neither agrees with the original description. One of these is Hooker's E. glabratus minor, the other his E. lonchophylhts, A duplicate of the type of the former is in the Columbia herbarium. There are also the following specimens of the same plant : Oregon : T. J. Howell, no. 3884. 1884.
Montana : J. H. Flodman, no. 839, 1896 ; P. A. Rydberg, no.
2824. 1895.
Northwest Toritoly : John Macoun. 1879.
South Dakota (Black Hills): P. A. Rydberg, no. 786. 1892. Colorado : M. E. Jones, no. 471. 1878.
All these specimens differ from those cited under the following species in the following respects : The stem is low, 1-2 dm. high, very leafy ; basal leaves numerous, the lowest spatulate; stem leaves linear, without petioles, ciliate at the base; inflorescence ra cemose, with heads on very short pedicels.