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terete, papillose or smooth. Pappus of one series of very slender, slightly roughened hairs, of equal length. — 
A large and not very natural genus as at present constituted, species of which are found all over the world; some of 
these having also very wide ranges; indeed, few latitudes, climates, or elevations are without the genus. It differs 
from Helichrysum only in the numerous female flowers of the disc, otherwise these are undistinguishable as genera; 
and indeed. some species of each are very closely allied to one another. The radiate section should probably form 
another genus, but if so, the radiate Helichrysa must also be made into a genus or be combined with these, disre- 
garding the number of female florets as of generic importance. (Name from yvapaXov, wool.) 
$a. Conopiscus. Heads solitary. Young receptacle conical. Inner involucral scales forming a broad, 
conspicuous white ray. 
1. Gnaphalium prostratum, Hook. fil.; caule prostrato ramosissimo, ramulis foliosis lanatis ascenden- 
tibus apice monocephalis, foliis parvis obovato-oblongis spathulatisve obtusis mucronatis superne incanis v. 
glabratis subtus pube laxe v. arcte appressa sericeis, capitulis subsessilibus v. breve pedunculatis, involucri 
squamis extimis brevibus lanatis acuminatis intimis 2-3-seriatis longe radiantibus subacutis, flosculis radii 
paucis foemineis 2-3-seriatis, receptaculo lato convexo primum conico. FZ. Antarct. p. 30. t. 21. 
Has. Northern Island. Mount Egmont, at 4000 feet elev., Dieffenbach; top of Titiokura, Colenso. 
Whole plant silvery, with white wool and shining appressed tomentum on the foliage. Stems prostrate, slender, 
rather woody at the very base, 6 inches to 2 feet long, with ascending, leafy, woolly branches, terminated by an 
almost sessile head ; the stem not being elongated beyond the cauline leaves into a bracteate peduncle as in the 
following species. Leaves numerous, spreading or recurved, oblong-obovate or oblong-spathulate, 1-8 inch long, 
blunt, with a sharp mucro; the upper surface hoary or downy, rarely glabrous, the under densely woolly. Heads 
large, 3-3 inch across. Outer involueral scales short, woolly, acuminate; inner very long, narrow, radiating, white, 
sharp-pointed, sometimes brown at the back. Floreis much shorter than the involucre; female small, few, in 
several series. —The involucral rays of this pretty plant expand long before the florets are fully formed, and I was 
(in the * Flora Antarctica") deceived as to the appearance of the latter, all of which I supposed to be hermaphrodite. 
At that time I was acquainted with the following very closely allied species, only through indifferent original speci- 
mens of Forster, which, from their incomplete state, I could not distinguish specifically from this. I accordingly 
recorded them as the same in Flora Antarctica Supplement. 
2. Gnaphalium bellidioides, Hook. fil. ; caulibus breviter prostratis ascendentibus divisis v. parce ra- 
mosis, ramis foliosis apice in pedunculos lanatos bracteatos monocephalos abeuntibus, foliis lineari-obovatis 
obovato-spathulatisve mueronatis superne lanatis glabratisve subtus dense argenteo-lanatis, pedunculis 
elongatis laxe bracteatis, capitulis ut in priore. Xeranthemum bellidioides, Forst. Banks et Sol. MSS. 
et Ic. 
Has. Northern and Middle Island. Hast coast, Banks and Solander, Colenso; Cook's Straits, Forster, 
D Urville; Otago, Lyall. 
Very similar indeed to the preceding species, but not so prostrate and less branched, with the branches termi- 
nating in long (3-6 inches), bracteated, woolly peduncles, bearing heads of flowers quite like those of G. prostratum. 
$ b. Heads corymbose. Receptacle plane or conven, rather broad. Inner involucral scales forming a broad, 
conspicuous white ray. 
3. Gnaphalium Lyall, Hook. fil.; caule robusto basi decumbente ramoso, ramis ascendentibus seri- 
ceis sulcatis foliosis, foliis (3-4 unc.) patulis anguste lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve acuminatis 1-3-nerviis 
supra glabratis subtus dense niveo-tomentosis, corymbis polycephalis, capitulis subcongestis, involucri squa- 
mis interioribus pluriseriatis longe radiantibus, flosculis foemineis multiseriatis, receptaculo lato convexo. 
Haz. Middle Island. Massacre Bay, Lyall. 
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