424 SYNGENESiA suPERFLiTA. Gnciphalinm. 



Root simple. Stems several, branchy, pressing on the earth ; 

 all are somewhat woolly. Leaves numerous, sessile, wedge- 

 shapeil, deeply dentate, villous. Flowers axillary or in the 

 divisions of the branches, solitary, sessile, sub-globular. Her- 

 maphrodite florets from ten to twelve in the centre, widi their 

 border four-toiilbed, coloured, and expanding; i\\e female 

 ones very numerous in the circumference, most minute, with 

 the border seemingly three-toothed, and the toothlets incurv- 

 ed. Receptacle naked. 



It differs from A. minima in having sessile, downy leaves, 

 and numerous tlosculi in each flower. The minute seeds are 

 used as a sternutatory by the Hindoos. 1 have often used 

 them successfully myself. 



GNAPHALIUM. Schrch. gen. N. 1282. 

 Receptacle naked. Pappus feathery (or simple.) Cah/x 

 imbricated, marginal scales rounded, scariose, coloured. 



1. G. strictum. Roxh. 



Stem straight, annual. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, 

 wedge-shaped, downy. Spikes compound, sub-panicled. 

 Florets yellow, with Avhite woolly calyx. 



A small, annual species, growing in dry shady places 

 durino- (he cold season, where water has stood durino- the 

 rains. 



Stem straight, in a favourable soil, branchy, round, covered 

 with soft, whitish down, about a foot long. Leaves sessile, 

 linear, Avedge-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, linear, acute scales of the calyx. Receptacle 

 concave. 



