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sitisS' Probably some of our varieties of that and the pre- 

 ceding species may be found to answer to the G. stachydi- 

 folium. Lam. and DC, and G. Chamissonis, DC; the first a 

 native of Monte Video; the second of Chili. 



2001. (5.) G. alienum, (H. et A.); ramis sterilibus densis 

 brevibus ca?spitosis floralibus elongatis gracilibus simplicibus 

 foliisque albo-lanatis, foliis lineari-spathulatis superioribus 

 linearibus, capitulis in spicas terminales interruptas disposi- 

 tis basi densissime lanosis, involucri cylindracei basi attenuati 

 pulcherrime rosei squamis oblongis acutis erectis imbricatis. 

 — Chili. Cuming, [n. 64.) — This has altogether a very pecu- 

 liar aspect, something like that of our European Xeranthe- 

 mum, and quite unlike that of any American Gnaphalium. 

 Perhaps it should form a second species of Helichrysiim of 

 that country. The female florets are in several series in the 

 circumference ; the hermaphrodite, about six, in the centre; 

 the receptacle is small, naked ? The root is small, woody, 

 fusiform ; from its top spring many dense, short, leafy 

 branches, 1 — 2 inches long, and from among them, 4 — 6 

 flowering branches, 5 — 6 inches high, slender, and like the 

 whole plant, except the involucre, clothed with short, white, 

 compact wool; at the base of the involucre the wool is loose 

 and very copious, forming a dense white tomentose cup from 

 which the glossy deep rose-coloured scales of the involucre 

 arise. 



2002. (1.) Filago Gallica, L.—DC. Prodi: vi. p. 248.— 



Oglifa Gallica, Less Logfia subulata, Cass. — Gnaphalium 



Gallicum, L, — Valparaiso; Cuming, {n. 576); Bridges, (n. 

 228.) 



Subtrib.^IX. Senecione^. Less. 



2003. (1.) Balbisia Derterii, DC. Prodr. \[. p. W7. Deless. 

 ic. sel. iv. t. 62. — De Caisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. N. S. i. p. 29. 

 — Ingenhouzia thurifera, Bert. Mst, — Juan Fernandez; Ber- 

 tero, [n. 1467); Cuming, (?^. 1392. masc.) — The male plant 

 has not been seen by Berlero. In it we find as follows : — 

 Corolla ui in planta foeminea, at pappo longior. Antherse 

 lineares, coalitae, inclusae. Stylus inclusus, ramis erectis bre- 



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