424 SYNGENESIA SUPFRFLUA. Gnaphaliun. 
Root simple. Stems several, branchy, pressing on the earth ; 
all are somewhat woolly. Leaves numerous, sessile, wedge- 
shaped, deeply dentate, villous, lowers axillary or in the 
divisions of the branches, solitary, sessile, sub-globular. Her- 
maphrodite florets from ten to twelve in the centre, with their 
border four-toothed, coloured, and expanding; the female 
ones very numerous in the circumference, most thinute, with 
the border seemingly three-toothed, and the toothlets meurv- 
ed. Receptacle naked. 
It differs from A. minima in having sessile, downy leaves, 
and numerous flosculi in each flower. The minute sceds are 
used as a sternutatory by the Hindoos. I have often used 
them successfully myself. 
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_ GNAPHALIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1282. 
_ Reps naked. Pappus feathery (or simple.) Calyx 
i marginal scales rounded, scariose, coloured. 
1. G, strictum, Roxb. 
Stem straight, annual. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, 
wedge-shaped, downy. Spikes compound, Aa EET 
Florets yellow, with white woolly calyx, 
__. A small, annual species, growing in dry shady places 
during - _ eee where water has. wiiteta: uring the 
Stem snthigbt i ina sTansirabla soil, eincty+ round, covered 
with soft, whitish down, about a foot long. Leaves sessile, 
linear, wedge-formed, or lanceolate, downy ; size very vari- 
ous. Spikes glomerate, terminal, and from the superior axills. 
Flowers very small, the florets yellow, surrounded with the 
white, woolly, en acute e seales of the calyx." gene 
concave, © dif 4g 
