Leontopodiwm.] Leem, composira. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 
l-seriate, shortly bearded, bases sub.connate.—DrsTRIs. Species 5, on the 
mountains of Europe and Asia. 
L. alpinum, Cass.; DC. Prodr. vi. 275; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 947 ; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 100. 1. himalayanum, DC. l.c. L. monocephalum, Edgew. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 73. Gnaphalium pulchellum, Wall. Cat. 2945. 
ArrrwE Hat Axa and TimkT, ascending from 10,000 to nearly 18,000 ft.—DISTRIB. 
Alps of Europe and Central Asia. 
This, the Edel-Weiss of the European Alps, is very variable in habit and in the 
length of foliage, amount of woolliness and size of the involucriform leaves; the 
rosulate lower leaves vary from obovate-oblong and i in. long, to linear and 1-13 in. 
long, equally woolly on both surfaces or less so or almost glabrate above; flowering 
stem 1-8 in., erect or ascending, slender or stout, sparingly or densely leafy or woolly ; 
cauline leaves sessile or J-amplexicaul, linear or linear-oblong, rarely obovate, obtuse 
or acute; involucriform leaves 1-1 in. long, linear or dilated upwards, spreading or 
recurved, almost always densely clothed with yellowish wool, always longer than the 
cluster of heads. Heads monecious, } in. long; invol. bracts erect, scarious, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, tipped with purple. Achenes papillose if fertile, smooth if 
sterile; pappus hairs of 9 filiform, of d thickened towards the tips. 
Var. Stracheyi; stem 12 in. filiform nearly glabrous, radical leaves 0, cauline lan- 
ceolate acuminate base aurieled cobwebby above, snow-white and woolly beneath.— 
Kumaon at Tola, alt. 11,500 ft., Str. d Winterb. Nipal, J. Scully. This appears to 
me to be a state of L. alpina, drawn up amongst rocks, but it is a very peculiar one, 
39. ANA PHA LIS, DC. 
Perennial, rarely annual, erect, cottony or woolly, rarely pubescent or glabrate 
herbs. Leaves alternate. Heads small, corymbose, heterogamous with the 9 
fl. outermost, or unisexual or subdicecious, disciform ; fl. 9 numerous, filiform, 
fertile, 2-4-toothed ; fl. usually sterile, tubular, limb subcampanulate 5-fid. 
Involucre campanulate turbinate or sub-globose; bracts co -seriate, scarious, 
inner with a petaloid limb, outer shorter, outermost woolly ; receptacle naked. 
Anther-bases sagittate ; auricles connate, tailed. Style of 9 filiform, obtuse, 
subcapitate or 2-cleft. Achenes very small, oblong; pappus hairs of 9 1-seriate, 
slender, scabrid, quite free and caducous, of Ẹ often thickened at the tips.— 
DrisrRIB. Species about 25, chiefly temperate and mountain plants of Asia and 
America. : í 
It is difficult to conceive a more troublesome assemblage of plants to discriminate 
and describe than this genus presents. ʻihe following arrangement of the Indian 
species is quite artificial. I have vainly sought good characters in the number of the 
flowers and of $ and 9 flowers in a head; these vary much in the same plant, and in 
different plants of the same species, and I suspect that the size of head which differs 
in very similar plants and which is relied on as a specific character in often only à 
sexual one. In some (as A. oblonga) the disk-flowers are all fertile, thus breaking 
down the character between this genus and Gnaphalium ; in fact the differences be- 
tween these genera and Helichrysum, Antennaria and Leontopodium are artificial and 
hardly sufficient for practical purposes. 
Serres I. Heads large, 3-3 in. diam, (except in A. rylorhiza and Royleana), 
more or less stellately spreading, acute or acuminate, white——All Himalayan 
and mostly Alpine. 
1. A. nubigena, DC. Prodr. vi. 272; dwarf, softly woolly or cottony, 
stems simple tufted 1-8 in., leaves elliptic or lanceolate or lowest obovate-spathu- 
late l-nerved acute or with a naked point or awn, base contracted, heads 1 or 
few 4-1 in. diam., invol. bracts lanceolate obtuse or subacute } to more than 4 
in. long. 
