350 ; COMPOSIT A ANAPHALIS 
. GNAPHALIUM 
30 ANAPHALIS DC. Prodr. vi, 241. 
White-tomentose woolly perrenial herbs with leafy erect stems 
entire leaves and numerous small discoid heads of yellow disk 
flowers. Heads dicecious but usually with a few hermaphrodite 
flowers in the centre of the pistillate heads. Bristles of the pap- 
pus of the staminate flowers but little if at all thickened at the 
apex; of the pistillate flowers not united at base but falling sep- 
- arately. 
A. margaritacea B. & H. Gen. ii, 303. Stems stout, 1-2 feet higb, 
tufted, very leafy, the white floccose wool rarely becoming tawny: leayes 
from rather broadly to linear lanceolate, 2-6 inches long. white-woolly be- 
neath, soon glabrate and green above, the broader ones indistinctly 3- 
nerved: heads numerous, corymbosely cymose: involucre globnlar, its 
numerous bracts almost wholly pearly-whi:e: achenes oblong. Common 
on dry ridges in forests, Alaska to California and across the continent. 
80 GNAPHALIUM L. Gen. n. 945. Cupweep. 
Floccose-woolly herbs with sessile, and sometimes decurrent 
leaves and commonly numerous heads of s mall flowers in cym- 
ose clusters or glomerules, Heads heterogamous, discoid, fertile 
throughout, of few or many series of pistillate flowers surround- 
ing a smaller number of hermaphrodite ones. Involucre pluri- 
serial, imbricated, the scarious and commonly partly woolly 
bracts with or without colored papery tips or appendages. Style 
of hermaphrodite flowers 2-cleft. Pappus of numerous merely 
scabrous capillary bristles in a single series. Achenes terete cr 
flattish, mostly nearly nerveless. 
§ 1 EucnapHatium DC. Prodr. vi, 122. Bristles of the pap- 
pus not at all united at base, falling separately. 
* Involucre woolly only at base, mainly scarious: heads paniculately 
or corymbosely cymose, or glomerate at the su mmit of the leafy sem 
and branches. 
G. microcephalum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii, 404 Densely 
white-woolly throughout: stems slender, 1-2 feet high, from a biennial or 
more enduring root: leaves linear or the lower spatulate-lanceolate, with 
slenderly decurrent base, persistently white-woolly, 1-2 inches long: heads 
small, in small panicnlate glomerules: inyolucre from turbinate to cam- 
panulate, 1-2 lines high, woolly at base, its ovate-lanceolate bracts mostly 
unequal, acute, pearly-white. On dry bars and bluffs along water-courses, 
Brit. Columbia to California. : 
G. Sprengelii H.&A. Bot. Beech. 150. Stems stout and strict, 1-3 feet 
high from a biennial root: leaves lanceolate or linear or the lowest narrow- 
ly spatulate, densely white-woolly or sometimes more thinly floccose, the 
short decurrent base or adnate auricles rather broad: heads numerous, in 
single to numerous glomerules, terminating the stem or few branches: in- 
volucre hemispherical, 3 lines high, white or yellowish, becoming slightly 
rusty in age, its bracts thin, oval and oblong, obtuse. Common on moist 
river-banks, Brit Columbia to California. 
G. decurrens Ives Am. Journ, Sci. i, 380, t.1. Stems strict, 2-3 feet 
high, corymbosely branched at the top and bearing cymulosely disposed 
