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SPECIES VI.-GNAPHALIUM MARGARITACEUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXLVI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XYI. Tab. CMLI. Fig. 1. 



Antennaria margaritacea, R. Brown. Bah. Man. Brit. But. ed. v. p. 183. Hook. & Am. 

 Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 246. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 270. 



E>ootstock not producing leafy barren shoots. Stems erect, 

 herbaceous, simple below, corymbosely branched at the top. Leaves 

 numerous, all elliptical-strapshaped, acute. Anthodes numerous, 

 in a compound corymb. Pericline of the male plant globose ; 

 phyllaries strapshaped, brown ; the outer ones woolly and the inner 

 ones glabrous, both with a large oval concave plaited glabrous 

 pure-white appendage or lamina rounded at the apex ; florets all 

 with abortive ovaries and no styles. Pericline of the female plant 

 roundish-bellshaped, with the lamina of the scales ovate-lanceolate, 

 equalling the pappus ; florets, except a few in the centre which 

 are perfect, without any anthers. 



In meadows, and by the banks of rivers. Naturalized in several 

 places, especially in the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and 

 Merioneth. In Scotland, abundant on Blair's Inch, Aberdeen ; 

 near Edinburgh ; and by the banks of the Yarrow, Selkirkshire. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Autumn. 



Rootstock shortly stoloniferous. Stem 1 to 3 feet high, thick, 

 very leafy. Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, densely cottony beneath, 

 at first floccose, but afterwards glabrous above, tapering at both 

 ends, the upper ones at least acute, the lower ones decayed by 

 the time of flowering. Anthodes | to J inch across, woolly at the 

 base, with the exposed part of the phyllaries pure dim-white ; 

 florets yellow. Anthodes of the female plant larger and less 

 globular than iu the male. Corolla yellowish. Achenes fusiform, 

 papillose. Hairs of the pappus very slender in the female plant, 

 while those of the short abortive ovary of the male plant arc 

 distinctly enlarged upwards, and furnished with thick blunt denti- 

 culations pointing upwards. 



All the specimens collected in Britain which I have seen have 

 been male plants ; but the one figured in Eng. Bot., No. 2018, is a 

 female, to which plate, in the present edition, a i)ortion of the 

 corymb of the male plant has been added. 



Pearly Everlasting. 



French, Gnaphale Perlee. German, Perlkopjiges RuhrJcraut. 



This pretty plant is frequently cultivated in the gardens both of England and the 

 Continent, and is said to have been introduced from America about the sixteenth 



