Linnaus, Hatter, and some other authors quote the 
Leontopodium, sive Pes Leonis, of Losex (Icon 484, f. 1.) 
as variety 8 of this species ; but it does not appear that there 
is any authority whatever for the existence of such a plant, 
except the above-mentioned figure, which is suspected by 
Joun Bauuin, Ray, and Hatter himself, to have been 
very faultily represented by Logex’s draughtsman, and after- 
wards copied by Tapern&zmontanus, GerArp, and Parxin- 
son ; we have, therefore, omitted it altogether. 
VaILLAnT first separated the Fitaco acaulis of Linnzus 
from the other Gnaphalia, chiefly on account of the seeds 
being altogether destitute of a pappus, and Linnaus added 
several other species.to the genus; but it has been since 
found, that the seeds of all the others are crowned witha 
pappus, or at least that a part of them is so crowned; for 
Sir James Smitu has observed, that some of the exterior 
seeds are destitute of pappus, in several species. The pre- 
gence or absence of pappus being thus found too uncertain a 
character, botanists have now generally agreed to arrange 
these plants under Gnaphalium, in a distinct section, called 
Filaginoidea, a section framed by Lixnzus, even while he 
retained the genus Filago. : : 
_ This remarkable plant is a native of the Swiss, Pyrenean, 
and Austrian Alps. Ray gathered it on one of the highest 
peaks of Mount Jura. 
_ It is rare, and, like many other alpine plants, difficult to 
cultivate: for these natives of very elevated regions will seldom 
bear being kept in a confined air. In their natural situation 
they are protected from frost by a deep covering of snow; 
perhaps, this might be successfully imitated, by covering — 
them, as soon as the winter sets in, with saw-dust, to the 
thickness of twelve or eighteen inches, piled up in a steep 
ridge to throw off the rain. Care should at the same time 
be taken that no wet stagnate about their roots... The most — 
suitable soil for most alpine plants is a very sandy peat. 
Gwnapuatium Leontopodium is an herbaceous perennial. ’ 
Flowers inJune. Our drawing was taken, above three years 
ago, from a plant comniunicated by the late Mr. Prixere, of 
the Sydenham Nursery. | 5%, 
