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 Gnaphalium Eximium. Giant Cudweed. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamic Superflua. 

 Generic CharaEler. 

 Recept. nudum. Pappus plumofus vel capillaris. Cal. imbricatus, 

 fquamis marginalibus rotundatis, fcariofis, coloratis. 

 Specif c Character and Synonyms. 

 GNAPHALIUM eximium foliis fefiilibus ovatis confertis 

 ere&is tomentofis, corymbo feflili. Linn. 

 Mant. PI. p. 573. Syji. Nat. ed. 13. Gmel. 

 ELYCHRYSUM africanum foliis lanceolatis integris tomen- 

 tofis decurrentibus, capitulis congeftis ex 

 rubello aureis. Edw. Av. t. 183. 



In the fuinmer of 1794, towards the end of July, the Gna- 

 phalium here figured, the moft magnificent and fhewyof all 

 the fpecies hitherto introduced to this country, flowered in 

 great perfeclion at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammer- 

 fmith : Mr. Lee informs me, that he raifed it from feeds 

 given him by Capt. William Paterson, author of a Nar- 

 rative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and 

 CafTraria, and who has moft laudably exerted himfelf in intro- 

 ducing many new and interefting plants to this country ; this 

 gentleman aflured Mr. Lee, that the plant was found in a 

 wild (late, five hundred miles from the Cape, on the borders 

 of the Caffre country, from whence the natives bring bundles 

 of the dried plant to the Cape as prefents; in this ftate the 

 plant has long fince been imported from that fertile coaft : » 

 we miftake not, a fpecimen of this fort is figured in Petive*' 5 

 "works, and a coloured rcprefentation is given of it in Edwards's 

 Hiftory of Birds, taken from a dried plant, brought from the 

 Cape, by Capt. Isaac Worth, in 1749. 



The plants we faw were about a foot and a half high, the 

 ftalks fhrubby, and but little branched j the foliage and 

 flowers as reprefented on the plate. 



Several of the Gnaphaliums it is well known are liable to be 

 killed by moiuure, efpecially in the winter feafon ; during 

 that time, this plant in particular, mould be kept as dry a s 

 poffiblc, and, if convenient, on a fhelf, feparate from the other 

 plants of the greenhoufe ; when it is neceflary to give it water, 

 it mould never come in contact with the foliage or flowers^ 

 with thefe precautions it may be kept very well in a good 

 gieenhoiife, in which it mould remain, even during fummer. 



It may be raifed from feeds, and alfo from cuttings. 



