278 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Antennaria , 



acute, beads 2-3-nate nestling amongst the leaves throughout the length of the 

 branches reddish, invol. bracts scarious aristate. I. cauliflora, Clarke Comp. 

 2nd. 99. I. spicata, Schultz-Bip. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 248. Trichogyne 

 cauliflora, DC. Prodr. vi. 266. Gnaphalium spicatuni, Vahl. G. anemophilum r 

 Wall. Cat. 2943. 



UPPER GANGETIC PLAINS, from Saharunpore westwards to the frontier. DISTRIB. 

 Westward to the Canaries. 



Woolly or glabrate. Branches 4-6 in. high, 1 in. diam. across the leaves^ 

 densely clothed with leaves and heads. Heads % in. long, glistening, glabrous; invol. 

 bracts and pappus red. 



37. ANTENNA HI A, Gaertn. 



Tufted perennial herbs, woolly or tomentose. Leaves spathulate, quite 

 entire, radical, often rosulate. Heads solitary or in terminal corymbs, discifomi, 

 dioecious; fl. $ all fertile, filiform, truncate or minutely toothed; g sterile, 

 tubular, limb campanulate 5- rarely 4-fid. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; 

 bracts oo -seriate, scarious, innermost woolly ; recept. convex or nearly flat, 

 pitted, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles connate caudate. Styles of 

 undivided or 2-fid., tips obtuse or truncate. Achencs of <j> small, oblong, terete 

 or sub-compressed, not ribbed ; pappus-hairs of copious, slender, connate at 

 the base ; of fl. $ fewer, crisped. DISTRIB. Species about 10, mountain plants 

 of various countries. 



The dioecious flowers are the only character that distinguishes this genus from 

 Anaphalis. 



1. A. nana, Hook. f. fy Thorns.-, Clarke Comp. Ind. 100; stemless, 

 leaves spreading \-\ in., heads subsessile solitary, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate 

 acute upper half and margins hyaline. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Nubra and Shayuk valleys, &c., alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson. 



A densely tufted woolly herb, 1-3 in. high. Leaves linear spathulate or oblanceo- 

 late, woolly on both surfaces. Heads small, sessile amongst the leaves or shortly 

 peduncled, \ in. diam., dioecious. Pappus copious, white, hairs slender, tips not dilated 

 or bearded. An anomalous Antennaria, the pappus of the $ not being bearded or 

 dilated at the tip. 



2. A. muscoides, Hook. f. $ Thorns.-, Clarke Comp. Ind. 100; leaves 

 minute densely imbricate, heads solitary sessile, invol. bracts linear-oblong 

 subacute almost wholly hyaline. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA in the interior ranges ; alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. D. H. 



There are two forms of this, one is quite moss-like, very compactly tufted, forming 

 great white cushions on the bare ground ; its leaves are about ~ in. long, closely im- 

 bricated with the rounded blade spreading starlike on the surface of the mass ; the 

 other grows more loosely, with spathulate spreading leaves ^ in. long. Pappus hairs 

 connate at the base, as are those of A. nana. 



38. LEONTOPODIU1VI, Br. 



Perennial tufted woolly herbs, with simple leafy flowering stems. Leaves- 

 quite entire. Heads small, sessile in involucrate clusters, disciforrn, unisexual 

 or 2-sexual with the $ flowers outermost ; fl. <j> fertile, filiform, truncate or 

 minutely toothed; fl. tubular, sterile, limb campanulate 5-fid. Involucre 

 campanulate, bracts oo -seriate, scarious, inner acute or with a spreading petaloid 

 limb, outer smaller, outermost woolly ; recept. convex, naked. Anth&'-bases 

 sagittate, auricles with slender tails. Styles of $ usually entire, obtuse or trun- 

 cate. Achenes of <j> small, oblong, subterete, not ribbed : pappus hairs slender, 



