﻿Doiiglasiar.iC, N. O. Compositac 



TAB. LXXV. 



Argyroxiphium Sandwicense. 



Argyroxipliium Sandwicense. De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 668. 

 Argyrophyton Douglasii. Hook, in Dougl Ascent of Moivna 



Hoa. Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 2. 

 Hab. Ovvhyhee, Macrae. Summit of Mowna Roa, D. Douglas 



{n. 15). Mowna Kaali, on the same island, Rev. J. Diell. 



D. Douglas. 



This is doubtless, one of the most remarkable plants among 

 the Compositor, and one with which the late unfortunate Mr. 

 Douglas was much struck in his ascent of Mowna Roa and 

 Mowna Kaah. I should have been happy if it coukl have borne 

 his name, which I had given to it in the MS. for the present 

 ^vork, and in the Companion to the Bot. Magazine, before 1 

 received M. De Candolle's volume of the Composita;, where I find 

 it admirably characterized, and by a generic name, not very 

 dissimilar to my own, and which could not fail to suggest itself, 

 from the copious long, pure white and silvery hairs, which clothe 

 the plant, but which are deciduous on the flowering portion of it. 



Mr. Douglas describes it as 3-4 feet high, and almost the 

 last plant seen on the ascent of the mountains above-mentioned . 

 the dead stems were used for fuel by him and his party. 



Fig." 1. Floret of the ray, enveloped below by an inner scale 



r 1 . r 1^ / Q Fruit Ol tlO. VilUl 



of the involucre. / 2. St.gmas of do. /■ 3- l'^ gj^,„,„, ^f 



an imperfect pappus. / 5. Floret of the disc / 6 S^ 



^o, laid open. / 7. Apex of the ovaiy of do ^^ l^^ 



partially removed to show the epigynous fl^^l.^_ 



base of the style. / 8. Stigmas of do. / «• 



niagnijied. / 10. Small leaf; natural size. 



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