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GNAPHALIUM apiculatum. 
New Holland Everlastino. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. CorYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. I. Receptaculum 
nudum. Semen papposum. Flores flosculosi. | 
GNAPHALIUM. Recept. nudum. Pappus pilosus s. plumosus. 
Cal. imbricatus, squamis marginalibus rotundatis, scariosis, coloratis. 
Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1849. 
Suffrutices aut herbe ; folia alterna sæpè canescentia ; flores sep? termi- 
nales, glomerati, aut corymbosi ; calyx persistens. Species una dioica insigni 
exceptione. Juss. l. c. 179. 
Div. Herbacea Chrysocoma. 
С. apiculatum, herbaceum, folis subspathulatis tomentosis apice nudis 
membranaceis subulatisve, floribus paniculatis, squamis calycinis ciliatis. 
Labillard. nov. hall. 2. 43. t. 188. 
Gnaphalium apiculatum. Persoon syn. 2. 418. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 15. 
Herba tota gossypino-lanata, cana ; caulis erectus simplex о. paniculato- 
ramosus, sesqui-bipedalis v. ultra. Fol. sparsa, distantia, erecta, semiam- 
plexicaulia, spathulato-oblonga, aliquotiés longiora quàm lata, sensim in 
bracteas decrescentia, longiora fere 4-uncialia, abrupt? et late acuminata, 
apiculo subulato fulvescente glabro prefixa, nervo medio simplici. Flores 
aurei, plures, erecti, subcorymboso-fastigiantes, breviores pedunculis. Cal, 
hemisphericus г squame flave, lanceolato-lineares, ordine plurimo imbricatt, 
ungue tereti viridi villoso petioliformi, laminá scariosá lineari-lanceolatá, 
sæpè maculis sanguineis vage notatá, latere utroque suprà unguem pro brevi 
spatio (апа longá implexá munitá indeque invicém cum proximis continente, 
ultra lanam sericeo-ciliatá, superne nudå, nervo medio dorsali; squamarum 
intimarum ungues membranoso-marginali et laminis eroso-dentatis longiores. 
Discus planiusculus, amplus, aureus, subbrevior calyci: floseuli numero- 
sissimi, infundibuliformes, aurei, glabri : tubus filiformis, viridiusculus, 3-plo 
longior limbo: limbus aureo-micans campanulatus laciniis acutis recurvo- 
patentibus. Germ, 2-v. 3-plo-brevius flosculo, gracile: pappus ex radus 
pluribus (7-8?) plumosis, qualibus disco. Recept. nudum, punctatum. 
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А greenhouse perennial, native of Van Diemen's Island; 
introduced in 1804 by Colonel William Paterson. Now 
become very general in our collections, and deserves to be 
so, as it is of easy culture, brilliantly coloured, and in bloom 
for several months together. 
GwaprHaLIUM is distinguishable from Ericurysum and 
XERANTHEMUM, by having a rayless calyx. 
Stem and foliage covered over by a white cottony fleece, 
through which the green shines but faintly. Stem upright, 
