652 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Antennaria. 
and — towards the end in the male florets or in all.— Perennial herbs 
with a or branching base, the normal species more or less cottony- 
white. Se alternate, entire. Flowering-stems in the true species as- 
cending or erect, bearing a cluster or corymb of small flower-heads. In the 
Australian species the flower-head naar dials consis and solitary. 
The genus is ire over the northern hemisphere, chiefly in mountain regions, ex xtending 
into the Andes of South America. The only Australian species (doubtfully inserted in the 
genus) is sedi 
l. A. (?) uniceps, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 105, and in 
Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 161. A small densely- -tufted or shortly creeping per- 
almost sessile within the last leaves and shorter than them. Involucre ovoid, 
the inner bracts with slightly spreading tips, but without coloured lamin. 
E eeng numerous, all deen with an undivided style in the specimens 
Achenes abortive with a pappus of oars bristles in a single row, 
slightly serrulate but carey thickened upwar 
ie ctoria. Gravelly plains near springs, Mun du^ ng mountains, at an elevation of 5000 
to 6000 ft., F. Mu el I geg this for the present in the genus in which im ip 
pues for, until the fertile florets shall have been observ ed, “its true affinities ot be as- 
ned. The habit is not at all that of Antennaria. It will Ge BER pe ef bea 
80. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. 
(Leontopodium, R. Br.; Euchiton, Cass.) 
cate in severa rows, more or less scari out small sp ding 
tips. Receptacle without ficat Florets of the Bias ones female, fili- 
form, in 2 or more rows, often very numerous, those of the disk fewer, often 
very few, hermaphrodite, ab 5-toothed. Anthers with fine tails. Style- 
branches i in the disk-florets nearly terete, truncate. Achenes oblong or ob- 
ovate, not striate, glabrous or erue. Pappus of capillary bristles, in 3 
single row.—Herbs a annual or perennial, more or less cottony or woony: 
Leaves alternate, entire, usually soft. Flower-heads small, usually cluste 
either in a ke? axils or in terminal spikes, corymbs or compoun 
rarely soli 
A co Seiterter genus, distributed ly the whole globe, but as yet very! imperfectly 
` defined. Of the 8 Australian erii i iiy b 3 via rad s range i i n the ld World, and E 
of them also in America. Of the remaining 4, 1 is also in New Zealand, the other 8 are 
endemic. 
Clusters o or ff heads t. inal , leafless , solitary 
or several in an tier nicle ops : 
KS Fein a gege gea head, usually surrounded by a 
. . 2. G. japonicum: 
G. collinum. 
1. G. luteo-album- 
coc with a tufted or « ereepin rhizome. : 
Floral | eaves narrow, glabrous above - mie «plc PUR 
d heads, 
