( 1802 ) 



Gnaphalium fruticans. Shrubby 

 Everlasting. 



C/ass «ra*i Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus pilosus s. plumosus. Ca/. im- 

 bricatus, squamis marginalibus rotundatis, scariosis, coloratis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Gnaphalium fruticans ; (fruticosum argyricomum) foliis am- 

 plexicaulibus ovatis trinerviis mucronulatis subtus lanu- 

 ginoso-tomentosis, cyma laxiuscula, bracteis oblongis 

 undulatis. 



Gnaphalium fruticans ; fruticosum, foliis ovatis amplexicau- 

 libus, caule rigente, cyma sessili. Mant. alt. 282. 



Gnaphalium grandiflorum. Bot. Repos. 489. Willd. Sp. PL 

 3. p. 185 J. exclusis synonymis. 



There seems to us to be the greatest confusion imaginable 

 respecting* Gnaphalium grandiflorum and fruticans. Will- 

 denow evidently considered our plant as grandiflorum, 

 though he has continued the synonym of Burmann, which we 

 take to be the true grandiflorum of LiNNiEus ; but which is 

 certainly not our plant. Mr. Andrews has, in the Botanist's 

 Repository, given a figure of fruticans under the name of 

 grandiflorum, for which it is quoted in Hortus Kewensis. 



The description of fruticans in the Mantissa, we must 

 allow, does not correspond altogether with our plant, and it is 

 from the authority of the specimen in the Banksian Herbarium, 

 marked as having been compared with that in the Linnean, 

 that we have ventured to consider this as the fruticans of 



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