1070 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II. 
Genus VI. 
a 
HELICHRY'SUM Lessing. Tut HeLicurysum, or EVERLASTING FLOWER. 
Lin. Syst. Syngenésia Supérflua, 
Identification. Less. Synops. Gen. Compos., p. 274 
Synonyme. Part of Gnaphalium Lin. Gen. PL, 1282., as adopted in Att. Hort. Kew., ed. 2. vol. 5. 
p. 10. 
Derivation. From hélios, the sun, and chrusos, gold; in reference to the blossoms. 
2 1. H. Sra@‘cuas D. Don. The Steechas Helichrysum, or common shrubby 
Everlasting Flower. 
Identification. D.Don; Loud. Hort. Brit. 
Synonymes. Gnaphalium Steechas Lin., Willd. Sp. Pl., 3. p. 1803., Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, vol. 5. p. 12. ; 
if Stoe‘chas citrina Dod. Pempt., 268. 
Engravings. Barrel. Icon., t. 410. ; Blackw., t. 438. ; Encyc. of Plants, p, 1699. f. 11756. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches twiggy. Leaves linear. Heads of flowers in a com- 
pound corymb. (Willd. Sp. Pl., as Gnaphalium Stce‘chas.) A native of 
Germany, France, and Spain. It was cultivated in Britain in 1629, where 
it grows to 2ft. or 3ft. high, and produces its yellow flowers from June to 
October. It is a low evergreen shrub, with long, slender, irregular branches, 
the lower ones having blunt leaves, 24 in. long, and an eighth of an inch broad 
at the end; those on the flower stalks are very narrow, and end in acute 
points; and the whole plant is very woolly. The flowers terminate in a 
compound corymb; the calyxes are at first silvery, but afterwards turn to 
a yellow sulphur colour. Ifthe flowers are gathered before they are much 
opened, the heads will continue in beauty many years if kept from air and 
dust. The plant is of easy culture in dry calcareous soils ; but it requires 
to be placed in a warm sheltered situation ; and, north of London, it will, in 
many places require a conservative wall. This species is now scarcely to be 
procured in any of the London nurseries, though some years ago there 
were plants of it in the Hammersmith collection. 
App. i. Half-hardy Species of the Helichrysum. 
H. friticans D. Don; Astélma friticans Bot. Reg., t.726.; Gnaphalium friticans Z.; G. grandi- 
flbrum Bot. Rep. ; and our fig. 840. ; is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, growing to the height 
of 3ft., and producing its yellow flowers from June to August, 

H. congéstum D. Don; Gnaphalium congéstum Lam., Bot. Fieg., t. 253. ; and our fig. 841.; is a 
native of the Cape of Good Hope, growing 3 ft. high, and producing its purplish flower heads in 
May and June. Various other species of this genus, and of closely allied genera, are suitable for 
the base of a conservative wall, or for conservative rockwork. 4H. apiculatwm, H. crassifolium, 
H. diversifdlium, H, ertcoides, and some other species, are in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. 
