326 COMPOSITZ. [Gnaphalium. 
This plant has apparently not been collected since its original discovery 
nearly fifty years ago. Not having seen specimens, I have reproduced Hooker’s 
description. 
8. G. luteo-album, Zinn. Sp. Plant. 851.—Annual or rarely 
biennial, clothed in all its parts with soft white woolly tomentum. 
Stems erect, ascending or decumbent, simple or branched at tlie 
base, 3-18in. high. Lower leaves often petiolate, 1-3 in. long, 
linear or linear-spathulate to obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute; 
upper smaller. sessile, linear or lanceolate, acute. Heads +in. 
diam., pale-yellow or brownish-yellow, glistening, in dense ebrac- 
teate clusters arranged in a corymbose manner at the ends of the 
branches. Involucre almost globose; bracts erect, oblong, obtuse, 
scarious, tips incurved. Female florets exceedingly numerous; 
hermaphrodite ones: few. Achene minutely papillose.—d. Rich. 
Fil. Now. Zel. 236; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 450; Raoul, Choim, 45; 
Hook. f. Fi. Nov. Zel. 188; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 154; Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 298. 
KermapEec Is~tanps, NortH and SoutH IsbLANDs, STEWART ISLAND, 
CHATHAM IsnANDs, AUCKLAND IsLANDs: Abundant tnroughout from sea-level to 
fully 3000 ft. November—March. 
A common plant in almost all warm and many temperate countries. 
9.G. japonicum, Thunb. Fil. Jap. 311.— Annual, erect, 
6-20in. high. Stems often woody at the base, branched, more or 
less white and cottony. leaves scattered, 1-4in. long, oblong- 
spathulate or linear-spathulate to linear-lanceolate, the lower often 
petiolate, acute, glabrous above or nearly so, cottony-white beneath. 
Heads small, 44+ in. long, compacted into dense globose clusters or 
compound heads 4-1 in. diain., which either terminate the branches 
or are axillary, and are surrounded by 3-6 linear spreading floral 
leaves. Involucral bracts scarious, hyaline, erect, obtuse or the 
inner acute. Female florets very numerous; hermaphrodite ones 
few, sometimes solitary. Achene slightly compressed, glabrous. 
Pappus-hairs very slender, hardly connate at the base.—Benth. Fl. 
Austral. i. 653; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 300. G. involucratum, Forst. 
Prodr. n. 291; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 241; A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 453; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 189; Handb. 
N.4. Fl. 155. G. virgatum, Banks and Sol. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel, 1. 1389. G. lanatum, Forst. Prodr. n. 290; A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 452. G. Cunninghamii, D.C. Prodr. vi. 235. 
KermapEec Is~anps, NortH and SoutH Isntanps, STEWART ISLAND, 
CuHatHAM Is~taAnDs: Abundant throughout from sea-level to 2500 ft. No- 
vember—January. 
Found also in Norfolk Island, Lord Howe’s Island, Australia and Tasmania) 
and northwards to the Malay Archipelago, China, and Japan. 
