978 Compositae. 
557. (17.) Gnaphalinm Linn. 
Capitula heterogamous, discoid, outer flowers female 2—co-seriate, 
disk-flowers fewer 1—15 bisexual. Involucre campanulate or ovoid 
of 2—3-multiseriate more or less scarious imbricate white yellowish 
or brown bracts, outer usually shorter. Receptacle naked or minu- 
tely fimbrilliferous. Female flowers filiform. Anther-base sagittate, 
finely tailed. Achenes subterete or slightly compressed, pappus 
uniseriate setaceous. — Herbaceous (or frutescent) woolly or tomen- 
tose, with alternate entire leaves, and clustered or variously cymose, 
rarely solitary, capitula. 
A large widely dispersed genus, including some almost cosmopolitan species. 
A. Leaves all sessile and more or less amplexicaul 1. G. luteo-album. 
B. Leaves attenuate at the base into the short petiole, 
or unly the upper ones sessile. 
I. Capitula in subglobose clusters. 
a) Achenes scabridulous 
b) Achenes smooth . 
Il. Capitula in spike-like clusters . 
1344. (1.) Gnaphalium luteo-album L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1196. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 224. — Ic. Flor. Dan., tab. 1763. 
— DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 230. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
p- 88 no. 536. — Herbaceous, sometimes woody at the base, erect 
ascending or decumbent, simple or branched, 15—70 em high. 
Stem and branches cottony, striate, subterete. Leaves spathulate, 
obtuse, or linear and sometimes acute, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, 
cottony on both sides, especially beneath, sometimes glabrate above, 
entire or vaguely crenulate, 2—6 cm long by 2—9 mm wide; upper 
smaller. Capitula campanulate, many-flowered, 4 mm long, sessile 
or subsessile, many together without intervening leaves, in crowded 
clusters at the ends of the stem and branches and from the upper 
axils, in corymbose or somewhat elongate cymes. Seales of the 
involucre pauciseriate, straw-coloured; innermost linear obtuse or 
subacute; intermediate ovate-lanceolate, obtuse; outer ovate, obtuse, 
woolly at base. Receptacle naked, flat, closely tubereled, 1 mm 
diam., bisexual flowers 4—9. Achenes oblong, subterete or slightly 
compressed, minutely papillose, otherwise glabrous. — Flow. February 
to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D. i. D. a. sept. Everywhere 
common, especially in moist sandy and waste places. 
Local name: rari? (Schweinfurth); sabiimafrit (Ascherson); 
lubain (Ascherson). 
A cosmopolitan weed. 
bo 
G. pulvinatum. 
G. erispatulum, 
G. indicum. 
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