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This plant is found in warm and low temperate latitudes all over the world, and occurs in the South of Eng- 
land, though perhaps introduced there. It may readily be recognized by its being covered with soft white wool.— 
Stems a span to 2 feet high, branching below, simple above, leafy throughout. Leaves, radical and cauline similar 
to one another, linear-lanceolate or spathulate, uniformly woolly on both sides, blunt, often with a point. 
Corymbs woolly, of many heads, clustered into six or eight globose masses, which have no bractese or leaves mixed 
with them. Involuere broadly campanulate, 4 inch long; scales numerous, linear-oblong, hyaline, shining, pale 
yellow-brown; the inner narrower. lorets very numerous. Receptacle broad, convex, papillose. Achenia oblong- 
obovate, smooth, grooved when dry. 
7. Gnaphalium ¢nvolucratum, Forst.; caule simplici v. e basi ramosissimo, ramis strictis erectis folia- 
tis simplicibus v. proliferis divisisgue cano-tomentosis lanatisve, foliis radicalibus paucis omnibus anguste 
lineari-ligulatis lanceolatis spathulatisve acuminatis mucronatisve planis v. crispatis marginibus integerrimis 
seepe recurvis supremis angustioribus subtus niveo-tomentosis superne glabratis, capitulis terminalibus v. 
ramulis brevissimis axillaribus densissime in glomerulos congestis foliis lineari-elongatis bracteatis, involucri 
pauciflori anguste oblongi squamis lineari-subulatis nitidis brunneis pallidisve conniventibus. Forst. Prodr. 
4. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. etc. G. spheericum, Hort. (Herb. Hook.) G.lanatum, Forst. 
et G. Cunninghamii, DC. fid. Herb. Mus. Brit., Howard, et DC. Prodr. 
Has. Throughout the Islands; very abundant, Banks and Solander. (Cultivated in England.) 
A very common and variable plant, easily recognized in its ordinary state by the dense round balls of capitula, 
surrounded at the base by spreading or deflexed, linear, leafy bracteze. Stems woody and generally much branched 
below, annual; branches erect, 1-2 feet high, simple, divided, or proliferous, bearing short leafy ramuli in the axils 
of the leaves, always more or less woolly. Zeaves numerous, radical and on the stem, uniform throughout the plant, 
but the upper narrower, all petiolate, narrow, linear, linear-lanceolate or spathulate, 1—4 inches long, sharp; the 
margins plane or recurved, and often crisped, beneath white with appressed tomentum, smooth above. Capitula 
crowded into globose masses $-1i inch in diameter, which are terminal on leafless short or elongated tops of the 
branches, or sessile amongst the leaves. Involucres very numerous, narrow; scales conniving, linear, very narrow, 
scarious, the outer shorter, broader, all usually brown towards the tips, rarely pale yellow-brown throughout, never 
spreading after the florets have fallen away so as to expose the receptacle, which is very narrow. florets few, about 
twelve; achenia papillose or pubescent.—This fine plant is also abundant in Australia and Tasmania. 
8. Gnaphalium virgatum, Banks et Sol.; caule e basi ramoso, ramis strictis erectis gracilibus simplici- 
bus proliferis ramosisve ubique cano-tomentosis, foliis anguste lineari-elongatis lanceolatisve acuminatis 
superne glabratis subtus dense appresse niveo-tomentosis, capitulis in glomerulos bracteatos sessiles axil- 
lares terminalesque densissime congestis, involucri pauciflori anguste oblongi squamis linearibus brunneis 
conniventibus. Banks et Sol. MSS. G. involucratum, 8. ramosum? DC. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island. East coast, Banks and Solander. Bay of Islands, at Wycari mission station, 
Je D. H. 
Very closely allied to the former, but distinguished by Banks and Solander and also by Sieber, in whose New 
Holland collection it is (no. 343). It chiefly differs from @. involucratum in the smaller size and slender habit, 
very narrow leaves, smaller, more numerous globose heads of capitula, which are axillary on the branches as well 
as terminal, and have shorter, narrower bractee. Though I have no variety of G. involucratum from Australia or 
New Zealand quite like this, I expect these two species will eventually prove varieties of one another. 
9. Gnaphalium collinum, Lab.; caule e basi ramoso v. simplici, ramis simplicibus erectis gracilibus 
molliter lanatis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis obovato-spathulatis oblongo-lanceolatisve obtusis apiculatis 
acutisve superne glaberrimis araneosisve subtus dense niveo-tomentosis lanatisve caulinis angustioribus 
