Gartner, but which, as he has pi-oposed it, consists of three 

 tribes of plants sufficiently dissimilar in habit and structure 

 to justify a further subdivision ; and, what is remarkable, 

 none of them entirely agreeing with his generic character." 



" The first tribe consists of herbaceous plants, natives Of 

 Europe and North America, having the staminiferous florets 

 and the pistilliferous florets in distinct mvolucra, and on 

 diff*erent individuals. To this genus the name Antennaria* 

 may remain, though descriptive of the pappus of the stami- 

 nifei-ous flower only. Its species are Gnaphalium dioicum 

 Linn., alpinum L., carpaticum Wahlenberg, jplantetgrneum 

 L., and margaritaceum L.** 



" The second tribe consisting of Gnaphalium Leontopo- 

 dimn and leontopodimdes, which may be called Leontopo- 

 DiUM, is in affinity between Antennaria and Gnaphalium as 

 here limited, but has sufficient characters to distinguish it 

 from both." 



" The third tribe has been found only in South Africa, 

 and consists of shrubs with rig^d heath-like leaves, of which 

 the margins are incurved, the upper surface tomentose, and 

 the under convex and nearly smooth ; but by a remarkable 

 twisting they are in most of the species resupinate ; a cha- 

 racter which seems to have been overlooked in all the 

 described species ; namely, Gnaphalium muricafum, mucro- 

 natuniy and seripkioides. In this tribe, or genus, which 

 may be named Metalasia, the involucrum is generally cy- 

 lindrical, and in most species has a short radius (ray) 

 formed by the spreading coloured laminae of the inner scales 

 (leaflets) ; the JhscuH are few in number, and all both stamen 

 and pistil-bearing; and the radii of the pappus, which fall off 

 separately, are either thickened or more strongly toothed at 

 top." Brown on the Composites in trans, lin. soc, 



AsTELMA is now first detached from Gnaphalium by the 

 above able hand; and founded upon the present species, 

 characterized as a genus by a naked receptacle of theJUmer 

 (neither chaffy nor honeycombed) ; a sessile feathered seed- 

 croum, the radii of which are connected at the base; 

 ao imbricated calyx, composed of scariose leaflets, the 



* Fully defined by Mr. Brown io a note in the page 

 extracting. 



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