﻿COMPOSITE. GliAPHALIDM. 



id Chili), Nuttall! /?. Sweet 

 .ucn.u..panmga- axuea ^ ULig,nosum "~® varying from an 



8. G.^ gossypinum^ (Nutt.) : white and floccosely woolly ; stem nearly 



glomeraie, seli^ef "eTiIiSrscales orthrovafelnvducre yelTow£tvaTor 

 oval-oblong, obtuse. Nutt. in trans. Amer. phil. soc. 1. c. p. 404. 



PlantJallSiriches^ 



^ 9. G. micrMephalmn {Nutt.^ sufFruticoseJ^ white _ and densely woolly ^ 



Anier. ^il. soc. I. c. p. 404. ' ^ silvery, acute. JSutt. in 



Involucre very floccose at the base : perfect flowers about 5.— Allied appar- 

 Cap^e of GooTHopr" resembling some species from the 



* • * L'.aves not dccurrent: scales of the involucre never yellow: heads racemose- 



10. G. purpureum (Linn.) : stems mostly simple or branched from the 



spec. 2. p. 854 (ex syn. Gronm.f\' mi^^EUh^L^^^^ 

 — Ell. sTc. 2. f. 325; Darlingt. .' ft. Cest. p. 492; DC! prodr. 6. i 



G. spatt 



, miid. \ 



ALfphu'so^'l''^'''^^'^"' (iam.Z.c?) DC! I.e. in part; Nutt. in trans 

 (3. ? falcatam: leaves nearly eriually woolly on both sides, narrowly ob- 

 anceolate ; the upper nearly linear.-G. falcatura. Lam. 1. c. 7 DC l c- 



, Hook. : 



Sandy or gravelly soil, from the coast of New Hampshire ! to Louisian£ 

 j^nd C^alif^^^^^^^ Texas ! ^ ^b'-^^^P'- 



. , o une. oot apparent yannu^a^,a^^e^^^^ 



All the species of th 



rect, canescently tomen- 



t described as perennial ly Muhlenberg, Elliott, DaT' 

 1 appears to be the case in some southern forms of this 

 Stem 6-20 inches high, slender. All the species of this 



oblong, aggregated in the^ 



