Gnaphalium.| LXII. COMPOSITA. 653 
nig — oblong, spreading, cottony on both sides. ek 
almost moneecious . - + « A G. alpigenum. 
Clusters of flawercheads axillary or forming a terminal 4 spike 
Flower-heads about 2 lines long . avr : G. a 
Big heads about 1 line long 48. € 
Flower-heads in little leafy ion - Bra ranching annual of 1 to 3 in. z. G. idee. 
Flower-heads solitary on Te eafy sc of 4 to 
Involuere dag 2 lines long, emgeet [^ Saaft floral leaves . 3. G. collinum, var. 
Involuere at least 3 lines long, without floral — besides er 
short woolly outer bracts 8. G. Traversiz. 
1. G. luteo-album, Li»z.; DC. Prod. vi.230. An annual or perhaps 
biennial, densely woolly-white, "with ascending or erect stems of 1 to 14 ft. 
when full 
rown. Lower leaves petiolate obovate or oblong-spathulate, ob- 
tuse; upper ones sessile = or egen posts all usually soft and re- 
taining the wool on bot es. Flower-heads in loose terminal nearly glo- 
bose clusters or dense corymbs; without floral ra either solitary and 
terminal or several of the clusters in the forks or on the branches of an irre- 
gular co orymbose panicle. Involucres about 2 lines Caen, nearly globose, 
the bracts scarious, pale brown or straw-colour, with obtuse scarious tips not 
spreading. Female florets exceedingly numerous with a GE hermaphrodites 
in the centre.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 216; Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 478. 
ueensland. Cape rcgni Barnard Isles, Port Curtis, M‘Gillivray ; Suttor river, 
Bowinan ; e Bay, Thoze 
N. S. Wal es. Port jus son to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; northward 
— river, Beckler ; southward to Gabo island, Maplestone ; Lord Howe’ Weg 
Vict Murray river, Station Peak, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy ; Skipton, 
Whan ; KEE Allitt 
Tasmania. Adest in rocky places and wet or dry pastures, J. D. Hoo 
S. tralia. Mount Gambier, Lofty Range, Kangaroo Island, F. eaten Burra . 
Burra, Zi 
W. A 
tralia. King George’s noA det Ls née districts, esu Preiss, 
n. 33, 34 ; Mer to [xoi Bay, Mi ; Murchison river, Oldfield. 
The species is common in almost all Cat? warm gi temperate regions of the a 
G. japonicum, Thunb. Fi. Jap. 311. An erect annual, usually 
Tot 1 ft., but when luxuriant 14 ft. high, more or less cottony-white, the 
base of the stem often hard and almost woody. Leaves from oblong-spathu- 
late and narrowed into a long petiole to linear and sessile, becoming glabrous 
above, cottony-white underneath. Flower-heads sm tall, in dense globose 
clusters or compound heads, surrounded by a few floral leaves, either terminal 
and 2 to 2 in. diameter or axillary and smaller. Involucres oblong, imbedded | 
— -Miq. Pro : Ede ; i 
` Forst. Prod. 55; DC. Prod. vi. 235; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 216; Steetz in 
Pl. Preiss, i. 478 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2582; Huchiton Forsteri and E. pulchellus, 
Cass. (DC.) 
