242 'GOMPOSITAE. 
velopment of the outer scales and their flowers; the want of 
female flowers to the innermost ones, their verticillation and 
distance from the female scales, and relations to the male 
flowers, and the small development of pappus of these. 
From no. (1) 682, it differs subgenerically at least in the 
above points except perhaps the first, 
As the scales, which appear always to be 5, around the 
male flowers, although similar structure to those containing 
the female flowérs are always empty, it is a point of enquiry 
whether the male flowers are developed in their axillze or not. 
This I have been unable to do owing to the age and withering 
of the single specimen I have found. But as in (1) 632 there 
is an evident tendency in the innermost scales to have abortive 
female flowers, there is no reason why that tendency should 
not be complete in this instance, 
The spicate inflorescence of the female, and the capitulate do. 
of the male, is well shewn in this plant, and judging from 
this we should not be surprised at finding a Composita with 
obviously spicate female Lo and more or less distant, 
(perhaps involucrate) capitulum of males. 
Is not the tendency to have the axis of inflorescence ter- 
minated by male flowers universal in the order. Are not the 
males of the really terminal capitulus more numerous than 
the lateral ones? 
The vascularity of this plant is small, the marginal 
veins of the lacinee of the corolla being obsolete, at least 
under a lens } focal distance, the vessels of the fruit are very 
indistinct, Mud. none? exist in the stamina. The stigmatose 
branches of the style are well developed in the male flowers 
and it would appear that in most such instances these 
bf&nches are more papillose than the true ones. 
3. Gnaphali sp. 
Herba erecta ramosa lana parum conspicue vestita; 14 pê- 
dalis. fol. sessilia linearia, sinuato-repanda, mucrona sphace 
lato-acutata. 
