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pro florc perennante." Its- 



branches are very elastic, and have the appearance of frosted 

 silver, from a dense white nap that covers them. Within 

 the first year's growth, the stem is observed to put forth 

 numerous hoary oblong-spatulate and linear leaves, de- 



creasing? from an inch to scarcely 



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ones 



two lines in length. 



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are also borne bv one or two of the lower 



branches, but all disappear after or before the end of the 

 first year, none such being reproduced, nor indeed any of 

 any sort on the stem and principal branches. Each leaf of 

 the adult plant produces from its axil a short branch, simi- 

 lar to that on which itself was first produced, then falls 

 off, thus forming the most bushy shrub of the genus. An 

 entire flower of the preceding year is almost always found 

 faded, but not decayed, in the fork of the flowering; 

 branches of the present. Plukenet is the only author, who 



seems to have noticed the difference of the primary leaves 

 from that of the succeeding ones. The plant is peculiarly 

 subject to be destroyed by the damp of winter-fogs; and 

 should be kept in the most light and airy part of the green- 

 house that can be selected. It thrives best in black sandy 

 peat-mould. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it 

 is found on the tops of the mountains. Introduced by Mr, 

 Masson in 1789. 



Elichrysum at present consists of the shrubby species 



formerly included in Xeranthemum ; from the herbaceous 



ones of which it has been detached by Willdenow, as 



in character, by a receptacle not clothed with 



differing 



chaffy bractes; but naked, and 



a pappus not of chafly 



bristles ; but of simple or else feathered hairs. 



The drawing of the flowering branch was made at Messrs. 

 Col vi lie's nursery ; that of the separate leaf and branches, 

 in Air. C res well's conservatory, Battersea-Square. 









a A vertical section of the flower, b A female floret in its place, c An 

 inner leaflet of the ray of the calyx, d A male floret and smooth germen. 

 e The same magnified, f A female floret and hirsute germen crowned by 

 a more numerous pappus, g The same magnified, h One of the lowermost 

 primary stem-leaves, i A lower branch of the yearling plant. 



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