392 BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OT H.M.S. HERALD. 
317. Artemisia tm/^am, Linn., De Cand. Prod. vol. vi. p. 112. n. 106. Hongkong (Hance!). 
Not noticed by De CandoUe as occurring in Chiuaj but by Loureiro in his ' Flora Cochinchinensis,' 
p. 600, as spontaneous and cultivated tlicrc. It quite agrees with our European form. 
318. Artemisia annua, Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 119. n. 148. Hongkong (Hance !). 
This species is noticed by Loureiro, 1. c. p. 599, as growing about Peking. Ilance also noticed it as 
spontaneous in Cliina, but De CandoUe does not. I cannot see the slightest difference between llance's 
Chinese specimens and those of my own herbarium, gathered about Karabagb and in Siberia. 
319. Gnaphalium multiceps, Wall., De Cand. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 322. n. 4. — G. confertum, Bth. 
in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 488, and in Hook. Joum. Bot. and Kew Misc. vol. iv. p. 235. n. 27. 
Common in riccficlds (Hinds, Champion, teste cl. Benth. ; Hance !) . 
Mr. Bentliam himself, that accurate and conscientious observer, reduced his own O. confertum in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. 1. c, and apparently with good reason, to this species. Hance's specimens agree well with those 
from Nepal and Silliet, compared in the Uoyal Herbarium of Berlin. 
320. Gnaphalium purpureum, Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 232. n. 65. — Var. spathula- 
turn, Lour, (non Thunb. nee Burm.). — G. Americanum, "Willd. (non Miller nee Swartz). — G. Penn- 
gylvanicum, Willd., De Cand. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 235. n. 80.— Annuum; foliis omnibus obovato-lan- 
ceolatis basi in pctiolum brevem scusim attenuatis, supra arancosis subtus cum caule floccoso-tomen- 
tosis, involucri squamis scariosis nitidis rufescentibus medio virescentibus acutis. Hongkong 
(Hance !) . 
This variety, having a somewhat peculiar habit, is not confined to America alone, but also found in 
Hongkong and Mauritius, whence I have seen an authentic specimen in the Eoyal Herbarium of Berlin, 
gathered by Commerson, communicated by Dr. Thouin, and named GnapJialium spathulatwn, Lamarck, 
Encyclop., evidently by an old botanist. This specimen throughout agrees with ours from Hongkong, and 
with numerous garden specimens, examined by me, in several herbaria, bearing the names of &. coarctafum, 
"Willd., G. Americanum, Willd., G. spicatum. Lour., G. Pennsylmnicum, Willd., O. oltusifolium, Hort., and 
wen G. imbricatwm, Linn., a true Seliclirysum. Indeed there is very great confusion, and the whole sub- 
division of ''spicate Gnaphalia," is so ill defined (as well remarked by Asa Gray in the 'Flora of North 
America') that it greatly needs a new and more accurate revision. 
We are better enabled to distinguish our variety from the common North American G. purpureum, 
Linn., by its peculiar habit, preserved mdeed by cultivation, than by any of its technical characters. The 
floccose pubescence Is more loose than in G. purpureum, the leaves in general are broader (sometimes 8-12 
lines towards the apes), the floral leaves more uniform with the cauline ones, and the involucral scales some- 
what narrower, and never tinged with red, but either quite rufescent, or tinged with shining green in their 
middle. Our variety certainly is always annual, and if the North American G. purpureum should be peren- 
mal, as stated by Miildenberg, Elliot, Darlington, and others, but doubted by Asa Gray, perhaps it might 
tomontose. Seemami's specimens, gathered in Hongkong, are in too yomig a state to be referred with 
certainty to the same species ; they have however the habit of it. 
Artemisia apiacea, Hance !-Wlprs. Ann. Bot. Syst. vol. ii. p. 895. n. 1. Shanghai (C F Ton- 
nerre!). ° ^ 
This beautiful species belongs apparently to De CandoUe's fourth section of the genus, viz. AhdntUum, 
and not, as remarked by Hance, to the first, Bracunculu., the disc-flowers being tndy hermaphrodite, and 
the very pyranndal elevated receptacle covered with very short hair. It has entirely the habit of the 
species of thia section. 
