200 COMPOSITAE. [Gnaphalium. 
membranous with obsolete veins, hispid. Flower-heads 5 to 10, in terminal 
shortly projecting corymbs on often branching hispid peduncles of '/2—1', 
3—4” in diam. Invol. 2—3” high, pale, its scales broad lanceolate, thin. 
Disk-fl. 6 to 8, all fertile, their corollae pale, 2“, the limbs. ampliate. 
ret 30 to 35, in several series, 2'/2“ long, the ligules as long as their 
Achenes hispid, with faces strongly 1-nerved. Pappus of 20 to 
7. bites, sy white as long as the disk-flowers. 
Mau ula awaii! Waimea and Central Plateau. 
B var. dentata. — Leaves with 1 or 2 ay of cuspidate teeth on each 
side, as in 7’, "Nig tiresate but much short 
Maui! Hamakua 
ey seviaides. Gray, 1. ¢. (Vittadinia). — Erect, 2—3 ft. high, much 
laenecad hispid-villous, ae ultimate branches herbaceous. Leaves ob- 
lanceolate, 1—3’ « 2 ‘, acuminate, mucronate, entire, contracting into 
a distinct petiole, a 3-nerved, hoary with a fine and soft pube- 
scence, Corymb many-flowered (30—60 Aes ge een Bia the leaves, 
the pelinuies repeatedly branching. Heads small, in diam. Inyol. 
scales few, linear, almost equalling the disk. "Disk. fl, ak 1 or 2, fertile. 
Ray-fl. 16—30, the outermost sterile, with very short, mostly erect ligules, 
which do not protrude beyond the pappus. fatere hispid, flat, obovate, 
small, 1/2, the faces faintly l-nerved, the nerve often visible only at the 
base. Pappus white, rather io equaling fee isk 
Maui! ~ the isthmus and in Kula; Ha i! Central Plateau; Lanai! (Mann). M. 
ai 
& B.’s no. as larger and remo tely poste leaves. — The ast two species have the 
habit of an hgous of the Coenotus group, and approach the same also in structure. 
Tripe IV. INULOIDEAE. 
Heads heterogamous, discoid or radiate, or by defect of the ray homo- 
gamous. Anther-cells setiform or caudate at the base. Style-branches 
linear-obtuse, or the style of the sterile flowers often undivided. Leaves 
generally alternate 
9. GNAPHALIUM, 
Heads heterogamous, but all flowers fertile. Involucral bracts imbricate, 
Scarious and colored. Receptacle flat, without scales. Florets of the 
hermaphrodite, 5-toothed. Achenes oblong, nearly cylindrical, often 
papillose. Pappus of a single series of capillary bristles. — Herbs, more 
or less — or woolly. Leayes alternate, mostly soft, narrow, 
entire. Heads y clustered, either in the upper axils or in terminal 
spikes or corymbs. 
A large genus, distributed over the whole globe.’ 
Heads in terminal clusters or corymbs; bristles of pappus free . : =: luteo-album. 
Heads in spikes; bristles of pappus united at the base i G@. purpureum. 
