278 Lxxvur composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) [Antennaria. 
acute, heads 2-3-nate nestling amongst the leaves throughout the length of the 
branches reddish, invol. bracts scarious aristate. I. cauliflora, Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 99. I. spicata, Schultz-Bip.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 248.  Trichogyne 
cauliflora, DC. Prodr. vi. 266. Gnaphalium spicatum, Vahl. G. anemophilum, 
Wall. Cat. 2945, 
Upprr Gancertic PLAINS, from Saharunpore westwards to the frontier.—Disrrip, 
Westward to the Canaries. 
Woolly or glabrate. Branches 4-6 in. high, 1 in. diam. across the leaves, 
densely clothed with leaves and heads. Heads à in. long, glistening, glabrous; invol. 
bracts and pappus red, 
37. ANTENNARIA, Gaertn. 
Tufted perennial herbs, woolly or tomentose. Leaves spathulate, quite 
entire, radical, often rosulate. Heads solitary or in terminal corymbs, disciform, 
diœcious; fl. 9 all fertile, filiform, truncate or minutely toothed; & sterile, 
tubular, limb campanulate 5- rarely 4-fid. Involuere ovoid or campanulate ; 
bracts oo-seriate, scarious, innermost woolly ; recept. convex or nearly flat, 
pitted, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles connate caudate. Styles of 
undivided or 2-fid., tips obtuse or truncate. Achenes of 9 small, oblong, terete 
or sub-compressed, not ribbed ; pappus-hairs of 9 copious, slender, connate at 
the base; of fl. Y fewer, crisped.—DrsrRrs. Species about 10, mountain plants 
of various countries. 
The dicecious flowers are the only character that distinguishes this genus from 
Anaphalis. 
l. A. nana, Hook. f. § Thoms.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 100; stemless, 
leaves spreading }~1 in., heads subsessile solitary, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate 
acute upper half and margins hyaline. . 
Western TrsgT ; Nubra and Shayuk valleys, &c., alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson. 
A densely tufted woolly herb, 1-3 in. high. Leaves linear spathulate or oblanceo- 
late, woolly on both surfaces. Heads small, sessile amongst the leaves or shortly 
peduneled, j in. diam., diecious. Pappus copious, white, hairs slender, tips not dilated 
or bearded.—An anomalous Antennaria, the pappus of the 9 not being bearded or 
dilated at the tip. 
2. A. muscoides, Hook. f. $ Thoms.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 100; leaves 
minute densely imbricate, heads solitary sessile, invol. bracts linear-oblong 
subacute almost wholly hyaline. 
SixkiM Hımaraya in the interior ranges ; alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. D. H. 
There are two forms of this, one is quite moss-like, very compactly tufted, forming 
great white cushions on the bare ground ; its leaves are about Jj. in. long, closely im- 
bricated with the rounded blade spreading starlike on the surface of the mass ; the 
other grows more loosely, with spathulate spreading leaves 4 in. long. Pappus hairs 
connate at the base, as are those of A. nana. 
98. LEON TOPODIUM, D 
Perennial tufted woolly herbs, with simple leafy flowering stems. Leaves 
quite entire. Heads small, sessile in involucrate clusters, disciform, unisexual 
or 2-sexual with the 9 flowers outermost; fl. 9 fertile, filiform, truncate or 
minutely toothed; fl. 5 tubular, sterile, limb campanulate 5-fid. Involucre 
campanulate, bracts  -seriate, scarious, inner acute or with a spreading petaloid 
limb, outer smaller, outermost woolly ; recept. convex, naked. Anther-bases 
sagittate, auricles with slender tails. Styles of D usually entire, obtuse or trun- 
cate. -Achenes of small, oblong, subterete, not ribbed; pappus hairs slender, 
