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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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the length of the petioles; flowers from the end of the tender 

 twigs, on peduncles ; the fruit a berried drupe, the size of 

 jujubes, black and smooth; the shell bony, thick at top, 

 with two small lateral lobes, remarkably acuminate at 

 bottom. 



Gnaplialium; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia Superflua. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: common 

 rounded, imbricate, with the marginal scales rounded, scariose, 

 coloured. Corolla: compound; corollets hermaphrodite, tu- 

 bular, with apetalous fernales sometimes intermixed ; herma- 

 phrodites funnel-form, with a five-cleft reflex border. Sta- 

 mina: in the hermaphrodites ; filamenta five, capillary, very 

 ehort; anthera cylindric, tubulous. Pistil: germen ovate; 

 style filiform, the length of the stamina ; stigma bifid ; in the 

 females reflex. Pericarp : none ; the calix permanent, shin- 

 ing. Seeds: solitary, oblong, small, crowned with a capillary 

 or feathered down. Receptacle: naked. ESSENTIAL CHA- 

 RACTER. Calix: imbricate, with the marginal scales rounded, 

 scariose, coloured. Down: feathered* or simple. Receptacle: 

 naked. The numerous species of this genus are either under- 

 shrubsor herbs; the leaves are placed alternately, and are for 

 the most part hoary : the flowers usually terminate the stem and 

 branches in globes or corymbs : the calix is permanent, with 

 yellow or white scales. The first twelve species, and most, 

 of the others, may be increased by slipping .off the heads, or 

 by cuttings, during any of the summer months ; they should 

 be planted in a bed of light earth, or in pots in a gentle hot- 

 bed, and covered with hand-glasses, or shaded with mats, ob- 

 serving to refresh them frequently with water in small quan- 

 tities ; these cuttings will put out roots in six or eight weeks, 

 and must then be planted in pots filled with light earth, and 

 placed in a shady situation till they have taken new root, 

 when they may be removed to an open one, and placed 

 among other hardy exotics, till the middle or end of Octo- 

 ber ; at which time they should be placed under a common 

 frame, where they may be protected from frost, but in mild 



weather they should be exposed to the open air. The 



species are, 



* Shrubby, with white Flowers. 



1. Gnaphalium Eximium; Choice Gnaplialium. Leaves 

 sessile, ovate, crowded, upright, tomentose ; corymb sessile. 

 Stem the thickness of a finger, and tomentose ; flowers glo- 

 bular, with the calices as large as the outer joint of a finger, 

 consisting of imbricate, roundish, scariose, concave, obtuse, 

 smooth, purplish scales. Native of the Cape. 



2. Gnaphalium Arboreum; Tree* Everlasting. Leaves ses- 

 sile, linear, smooth on the upper surface, rolled back along 

 the edge; flowers in a kind of head, on elongate peduncles. 

 This is a shrub the height of a man, determinately branched ; 

 the leaves resemble those of Rosemary, crowded ; corymb 

 very much crowded. It flowers during most part of the 

 year. Native of the Gape. 



3. Gnaphalium Grandiflorum; Great-lowered Everlast- 

 ing. Leaves stem-clasping, ovate, three-nerved, lanuginous 

 on both sides. Branches round, simple, tomentose; flowers 

 large, roundish, snow-white, in roundish, heaped, solitary 

 cymes, on long tomentose scaly peduncles. Native of the 

 Cape. 



\. Gnaphalium Fruticans; Fruiting Gnaphaliurq. Leaves 



ovate, stem-clasping ; stem rigid ; cyme sessile. Stem the 



ncknessof a finger, determinately branched, villo.se; flowers 



terminating, and heaped into a sessile head; calix yellow on 



the outside, but white within. Native of the Cape. 



i. Gnaphalium Crispum; Crisped Gnaphalium. Leaves 

 omentose underneath, scabrous above; root-leaves petioled, 

 oblong; stem-leaves embracing, waved. Peduncle elongated, 

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tomentose, terminated by a compound many-flowered cyme ; 

 flowers small; outer calices red, inner yellow. Native of the 

 Cape. 



6. Gnaphalium Appendicnlatum ; Appendiculated Gnapha- 

 lium. Leaves sessile, imbricate, lanceolate, woolly, appen- 

 dicled at the tip with a scariose membrane. Stem clothed 

 with leaves up to the cyme. It is remarkable for a little, 

 lanceolate, scariose membrane, terminating the leaf. Na- 

 tive of the Cape. 



7. Gnaphalium Coronatum; Crowned Gnaphalium. Leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate; corymbs compound, sessile; peduncles 

 leafless; calices crowned. Stems woody, with villose branches. 

 Native of the Cape. 



8. Gnaphalium Discolorum ; Coloured Gnaphalium. Leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate; calices white; lower scales flesh-coloured. 

 Steins under-shrubby ; common peduncles elongated, Na- 

 tive of the Cape. 



9. Gnaphalium Muricatum; Prickly Gnaphalium. Leaves 

 subulate, mucronate ; umbel compound ; calices cylindric, 

 containing about three flowers. Stem erect, round, pubes- 



'cent; branches patulous, simple, alternate, or somewhat 

 heaped, lightly tomentose. This varies with leaves sharp 

 or prickly, like those of juniper. Native of the Cape. 



10. Gnaphalium Encoides; Heath-leaved Everlasting. 

 Leaves sessile, linear; outer calices rude, inner flesh-coloured. 

 The branches are wand-like, rigid, unequal. Native of the 

 Cape. 



11. Gnaphalium Teretifolium; Crowded Everlasting. Leaves 

 crowded, almost columnar; corymbs branched ; calices ferru- 

 ginous on the outside. Stem ash-coloured, round, subto- 

 mentose; branches leafy, white, tomentose; branchlets deter- 

 minate^umbelled, erect, each loaded in the middle with other 

 short aggregate branchlets. Native of the Cape. 



** Shrubby, with yellow Flowers. 



12. Gnaphalium Mucronatum; Pointed Everlasting . Leaves 

 subulate, mucronate ; calicine scales roundish. Branches a 

 span long, erect, simple, round, slightly tomentose, ash- 

 coloured ; flowers six, large, in panicles, terminating, con- 

 tracted, on one-flowered tomentose peduncles. Native of the 

 Cape. 



13. Gnaphalium Stoechas ; Common Shrubby Everlasting. 

 Leaifes^ linear; corymb compound; branches wand-like. 

 Stem about three feet high, with long slender irregular 

 branches, the lower ones having blunt leaves two inches and 

 a half long, and an eighth of an inch broad at the end ; those 

 on the flower-stalks are very narrow, and end in acute points. 

 The 'whole plant is very woolly ; flowers terminating in a 

 compound corymb; calices at first silvery, but turning to a 

 yellow sulphur. If gathered before the flowers are much 

 opened, the heads will continue in beauty many years, if 

 kept from air and dust, The flowers are androgynous ; and 

 have been formerly recommended as attenuants, discutients, 

 and diaphoretics, but are not used in common practice. 

 Native of Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. This, toge- 

 ther with the thirteenth, fourteenth, twenty-fifth, and thirty- 

 sixtli species, is so hardy, as, in very mild winters, to live 

 abroad in warm borders near walls, with little shelter. 



14. Gnaphalium Ignescens; Red-flowered Everlasting. 

 Leaves sublanceolate, tomentose, sessile; corymbs alternate, 

 conglobate ; flowers globular. Stem and leaves woolly ; the 

 former a foot high, sending out a few side-branches, termi- 

 nated by a compound corymb, the heads of which are small, 

 of a gold colour, changing to a red as they fade. Native 

 place unknown. 



15. Gnaphalium Dentatum; Toothed Everlasting. Leaves 

 wedge-shaped, toothed, sessile ; corymb simple. The whole 



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