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GNAPHALIUM. ' 299 
9. Abortive flower from the axil of one of the inner scales. 
Pappus well developed. Corolla badly so, dentate at 
apex, and enclosing within it an obscurely emarginate 
style. 
9a. Imaginary section of do. not carried through the ovary. 
10. Male flower. 11. Section of do. not carried through 
ovary. Pappus chiefly removed. "The ovula of both 
such flowers, (9 and 10) are abortive, or rather come to 
nothing. 
ll. Anther back view of. Filaments evascular! 105. Pap- 
pus portion of. 
12. Fruits. 12a. Same, corolla and Style lapsed, the 
branches of the style and their corresponding stigmatic 
surface appear to enlarge or elongate at least after im- 
pregnation, 
12. Shews the structure of the coats of the akenuim, a ge- 
Ruine one in this instance although the inner coat is 
Separable, a calycine coat, 5 embryonary sacculate, so 
that the ovarial coat, the testa, and nucleary coat have 
disappeared. 
13, Section of fruit, a ovarial coat, 6 that derived from the 
embryonary sac, c embryo. 
M. Portion of arachnoid threads. 
Candahar : May, 1839. 
AB. Candahar Affzanisthan, see Itin. Notes p. 272, no. 
632. A tendency in Gnaphalium to have radiate ramification, 
- This is an interesting plant, in asmuch as it points out 
"à tendency in the female flowers to be external, their ten- 
ia to be provided with bractes, to have no pappus, and 
: development of the corolla, and total abortion of 
"us Organs, It shews, that in such instances there js 
of sradual change of development towards the interior 
ae Capitulus, those flowers which are provided with 
78 and situated interiorly, being abortive and having 
he but still without a trace of male organs. It 
WS that in some cases the’ male flowers are more 
