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century. Its enduring qualities render it valuable through the winter ; for though the 

 flowers are less brilliant than those of the exotic species, they are equally lasting, and 

 retain their appearance for years. 



SPECIES VII.— GNAPHALIUM DIOICUM. Linn. 



Plates DCCXLVII. DCCXLVIII. 



Antennaria dioica, Gdrtn. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 182. Hook. & Arn. Brit. FI. 

 ed. viii. p. 246. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 189. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. 

 p. 269. 



Rootstock with procumbent barren shoots with obovate or 

 oblaneeolate blunt leaves. ^lowering - stems erect, herbaceous, 

 with rather few strapshaped or elliptical erect leaves, the upper- 

 most ones at least acute. Anthodes few, shortly stalked, in a 

 head-like nearly simple corymb. Pericline of the male plant 

 depressed-globose ; phyllaries strapshaped, brown, the outer ones 

 woolly, the inner ones glabrous, both with a large oblaneeolate 

 flattish white or rose-coloured lamina rounded at the apex ; florets 

 all with abortive ovary and no style. Pericline of the female plant 

 bellshaped, with the lamina of the phyllaries, especially of the 

 inner ones, more elongated than in the male, shorter than the 

 pappus ; florets all without anthers. 



Var. a, genuinum. 



Plate DCCXLVII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLI. Figs. 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 44. 



Leaves glabrous above, woolly-white beneath. 



Var. 3, liyperhoreum. D. C. 



Plate DCCXLVIII. 



G. hyperboreum, Don, Hort. Cant. ed. vii. p. 237. 

 Antennaria hyperborea, D. Don, Eng, Bot. Supp. No. 2640. 



Leaves woolly both above and beneath, broader than those of 

 var. a. 



On heaths, sandy pastures, and alpine rocks. Common, and 

 generally distributed in upland districts ; rare in the South of 

 England. Var. 3 in the Isle of Skye. 



Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Pootstock branched, producing numerous caespitose barren 

 shoots round the base of the flowering-stem, which is 2 to 9 inches 

 high, slender, unbranched up to the corymb. Anthodes \ inch 



