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GNAPHALIUM congestum. 
Lamarck’ s Everlasting. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMI4 SUPERFLUA. 
| Nat. ord. CoRYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. 1. Receptaculum 
nudum. Semen papposum. Flores flosculosi. 
GNAPHALIUM. Supra fol. 240. 
дым, 
Div. Fruticosa Argyrocoma. 
G. congestum, fruticosum, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, superné rugoso-scabris, 
subtüs tomentosis, corymbo glomerato simplici. Lamarck encyc. 2. 792, 
Gnaphalium congestum. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1852. 
Gnaphalium tricostatum. Thunb. prod. 157. 
Frutex nunc 3-pedalis, nudiusculus, ramosus : rami teretes, laná araneosá 
albicantes. Fol. sparsa, semiamplexicaulia, patentissima, remotiuscula at plu- 
rimum longiora intervallis, uncialia о. ultra, lineari-lanceolata, angusta, cus» 
pidata, suprà obscuré viridia, rugosa, immerse 3-nervia, convexa margine 
deflexo, sublüs land densá araneosá candicantia. Flores terminales, nume- 
rosi, vix piso majores, paniculato-cymosi, pedunculo communi longo albo- 
lanato subaphyllo ò. distantissime folioso. Cal. albo-purpureus, scariosus $ 
foliolis ungue viridi extús lanato, laminá utrinque glabra nitentes exterioribus 
ovato-oblongis, obtusis, interioribus angustioribus, ungue longo, laminá parvá 
omnind albá, dorso lanatá : aliis paucis in disco vage irrepentibus et flos- 
culis ad instar palearum se commiscentibus, modoque omnino lanceolatis. 
Flosculi discoidei cylindracei, flavi, subquinquedentati. Germ. glabrum, 
3-plo brevius flosculo, peripheria flexum, centri rectum: pappus plumosus, 
multiradiatus, albus, @quans vel subsuperans flosculos : stig. non exserta. 
Pollen aureo-micans, grumosum, orificium flosculi cumulans. Recept. mem- 
branoso-denticulatum. 
оф 
Though we do not find this plant in either edition of е 
Hortus Kewensis, it is proved by a specimen in the Bank- 
sian Herbarium to have flowered at Kew in 1793; апа had 
been most probably introduced by Mr. Masson, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, where it is indigenous. The specific 
name has been suggested either by a dried sample, where 
the inflorescence has been compressed in preserving it, or 
from one that had been gathered in an early stage, for, ina 
later, the flowers are by no means disposed in a manner to 
answer to the epithet congestus (crowded). 
А branching and rather naked shrub, in the plants we 
have seen not exceeding three feet: branches round, arane- 
ously woolled, white. Leaves scattered in every direction, 
halfstemclasping, outspread, rather wideset but longer than 
