146 SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. 
berous, as large as a Potatoe. Leaves lanceolate, bubden- 
ticulate, decurrent on the stem, beneath tomentose; flow- 
ersina subsessile, cylindric, dense spike; florets all fertile, 
feminine few; seed pubescem; tube of anthers exserted. 
Flowers whitish, all the others are pale purple; none of 
them appear to be congeners with C. sguarrosa. 
This extensive genus of near 80 species is principally 
indigenous to India and its islands, with a few species in 
Africa, America, and Europe. . 
556. GNAPHALIUM. L, (Cud-weed, Ever- 
lasting.) 
_ Calix imbricated, marginal scales rounded, 
scariose, shining and coloured. Radii none; 
feminine florets marginal, entire, mostly nu- 
merous, Receplacle naked. Pappus pilose, or 
scabrous. — 
Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves alternate, mostly to- 
mentose and canescent; fowers commonly terminal, glo- 
merate or corymbose; calix persistent, scales yellow, red- 
thsh, or white. Flowers in many species all hermaphro- 
dite; in 2dioicous. A genus scarcely distinguishable from 
the preceding, exeept by habit. 
_ Srecres. 1.G. margaritaceum. 2. Heraaphroaier Rowers 3. pur- 
ENOSU: yt germanicum. 
enu: of 120 species, most of which are indigenous 
tay od ‘Good Hope, there are also a few species in 
India, and in South as well as North America. 
8 radiate, or with the florets of the mar- 
gin ligulate. 
557. ERIGERON, L. (Flea-bane.) 
Calix imbricated, subhemispherical, in fruit 
often reflected. Rays of the corona. linear, ve- 
ge “narrow, and numerous. Recepta one, 
is few rays, a2 to 252) = is 
Herbaceous; Seer Gok oe ine Soe 
_ tary, axillary and terminal, subcorymbose or fastigiately 
- ‘paniculate; radii white, or purplish, rarely destitute of 
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