Raculia.) LXII. COMPOSITAE. 651 
R. Planchoni, Hook.f. A dwarf perennial, forming broad. dense 
tufts, the branches concealed by the remains of oldleaves. Leaves imbricate, 
obovate, 3 to 4 lines long, thick and densely villous with rust-coloured woolly 
i i old. in. 
a 
the outer ones slightly woolly. Female florets few, in a single row ; disk- 
florets numerous, mostly fertile. Achenes slightly hirsute. Pappus-bristles 
numerous, free, not thickened upwards.— Gnaphalium Planchoni, Hook. f. 
Fl. Tasm. i. 217. t. 62 C. 
Tasmania. Table mountain, Derwent river, R. Brown ; summit of Mount Olympus, 
Gunn. 
and thickened towards the end, especia y in the hermaphrodite florets, very 
. taducous.—Gnaphalium Catipes, DC. . Vi. 236; Antennaria nubigena, F. 
Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 45, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 161. 
Pl. Vict. t. 45. | 
Victoria. Cobberas mountains, at an elevation of 6000 ft,, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Bare rocks on the summits of the highest mountains, Gunn. 
SusTRIBE II]. EuGNAPHALIEX.— Flower-heads distinct or in dense 
. clusters or compound heads, usually small. Female filiform florets nume- 
. Tous, in several rows or in separate heads. 
79. ANTENNARIA, Gertn. 
. Involuere ovoid campanulate or hemispherical, the bracts imbricate in se- 
. Yeral rows, more or less scarious, with or without spreading coloured laminze. 
Receptacle without scales, Flower-heads diccious; florets in the female in- 
dividuals all filiform, 2- or 3-toothed, those in the male individuals quy 
hermaphrodite but sterile, tubular, 4- or 5-toothed. Anthers with fine tails. 
Style m the males undivided. Achenes oblong, terete or compound, vA 
beaked, abortive in the males. Pappus of capillary bristles, usually thicken 
