The stem, in both plants, is shrubby and covered with a 

 white wool, and is very similar in growth. But in grandi- 

 fiorum the leaves are obtuse and covered with a thick white 

 tomentum on both sides, not unlike white woollen cloth ; in . 

 fruticans the tomentum on the upper surface of the leaves is 

 green, and frequently disappears when they are old, they are 

 also terminated with a small callous mucro, which is wanting 

 in the other. The branches in both terminate in a long 

 peduncle, bearing small leaves or bractes, more numerous, 

 narrower, and even at the margin, in grandiflora ; wider, 

 more distant, and more patent, with the margin undulated, 

 in fruticans. In the former, the flow'ers are smaller and 

 crowded into a close capitulum, which in the latter is more 

 lax, being rather a cyme than capitulum ; and the peduncle 

 being more rigid, it is probable that Linnaeus considered it 

 as stem, not as a peduncle, and therefore called the cyme 

 sessile. Without understanding it in this way, it is difficult 

 to conceive how a plant answering to his description of 

 fruticans, can be nearly related to grandijlorum, which he 

 expressly states that it is*. 



The young leaves being covered with a thick tomentum, 

 the nerves are scarcely visible, but in the older leaves become 

 very apparent. 



A greenhouse shrub. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. 

 Flowers from June to August. 



* Since the above was in the press, we have been kindly informed by our 

 friend, Sir James Edward Smith, that upon comparing our figure with the 

 specimen of Gnaphalium fruticans, in the Linnean Herbarium, he finds it 

 to be certainly the same species* 



