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plant is hoary ; brandies scarcely a span long, and round ; 

 flowers at the ends of the branchlets few, small, shining, in 

 oblong heads. Native of the Cape. 



16. Gnaphalium Serratum; Serrated Everlasting. Leaves 

 stem-clasping, lanceolate, serrate, naked on the upper sur- 

 face. This is an elegant plant, suifruticose, soft and silky, 

 yellow, much branched, with procumbent, simple, pubescent 

 runners; flowers terminating, very manv, in a close compact 

 head, each on short pedicels. Native of the Cape. 



17. Gnaphalium Patulum; Spreading Everlasting. Leaves 

 stem-clasping, spatulate ; corymbs aggregate ; branches 

 spreading. Branches filiform, a foot or more in length, 

 round, white, tomentose, patulous, somewhat branched ; 

 cymes terminating, loose, on long peduncles, tomentose, 

 leafless; flowers large, pecluncled. It flowers from August 

 to January. Native of the Cape. 



18.- Gnaphalium Petiolatum; Petioled Everlasting. Leaves 

 ovate, quite entire, petioled ; flowers crowded, terminating. 

 Nearly related to the foregoing species. Native of the Cape. 



19. Gnaphalium Crassifolium ; Thick-leaved Everlasting. 

 Leaves broad-lanceolate, subpetioled, leathery, tomentose;* 

 corymb compound; stalk proliferous. Stem a foot high, pro- 

 liferous, branched, perennial, except the proliferous branch ; 

 flowers numerous ; calices pale yellow ; corollas of a deep 

 purple. The florets before they open appear white. It 

 flowers from July to September. Native of Majorca and 

 Minorca. 



20. Gnaphalium Maritimum ; Sea Everlasting. Very 

 much branched; leaves lanceolate? sessile, sharpish; inmost 

 calicine scales gold-coloured. This shrub is four feet high, 

 with pubescent branches : corymbs terminating, close, round- 

 ish, on very short peduncles; flowers gold-coloured. -.-Native 

 of the Cape. 



21. Gnaphalium Repens ; Creeping Everlasting. Leaves 

 linear; stem creeping, straight; branches upright, very sira- 



)le. The stem is perennial, perfectly simple, filiform, angu- 

 ar, four feet high ; branches alternate, two inches in length, 

 bearing both leaves and flowers ; flowers yellowish, the size 

 of hemp seed, Native of the Cape. 



22. Gnaphalium Umbellatum ; Umbellated Everlasting. 

 Leaves in bunches, subulate, twisted ; umbels simple, termi- 

 nating, sessile. The herb of this plant bears a strong, re'sem- 

 blance to the ninth species, but it differs in having a regular 

 umbel, larger flowers, and the scales of the calix are of a 

 beautiful red, in which last circumstance it resembles a Xer- 

 anthemum. Native of the Cape. 



23. Gnaphalium Hispidum ; Hispid Everlasting. Leaves 

 linear, semicylindric, grooved, hispid, patulous; heads termi- 

 nating, simple. -This species is easily known by the stiff 

 bristles on its acerose leaves, and by its aggregate flowers. 

 --Native of the Cape. 



*** Herbaceous, with yellow Flowers. 



24. Gnaphalium Cylindricum ; Cylindrical Everlasting. 

 Leaves sessile, oblong, tomentose ; corymbs unequal ; calices 

 smooth, cylindric, sessile. Herb branched, diffuse, a span 

 in length, tomentose all over; calices very long, imbricated 

 with equal, ovate, bluntish scales. Native of the Cape. " 



25. Goaphalium Orientale ; Eastern Everlasting. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, sessile; corymb compound; peduncles elon- 

 gated. Stem seldom rising more than three or four inches 

 high, and putting out many heads; flower-stems eight or ten 

 inches high, with narrow hoary leaves all the way, terminated 

 by a compound corymb of bright yellow flowers in large 

 heads, coming out in May, and continuing in succession 

 most part of the summer. It has been long in Portugal, 

 where, in the winter season, they ornament the churches with 



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the flowers. Of this species there are two kinds, the Broad- 

 leaved, and the Narrow-leaved. The shrubby or narrow- 

 leaved variety grows naturally tit the Cape : it differs from 

 the other in rising with stalks four or five feet high, dividing 

 into many branches, having long narrow leaves placed alter- 

 nately ; the corymbs loose, and the flowers on long pedicels. 



2G. Gnaphalium Arenarium; Sandy Everlasting. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, the lower ones obtuse ; corymb compound ; stalks quite 

 simple. This is an annual hoary plant, with an oblong root; 

 stem upright, a foot or more in height, white with down. The 

 shining yellow heads of flowers are two lines in length and 

 breadth; the calicine scales are ovate, blunt, and lemon-colour- 

 ed, as are also the corollets. It is supposed to preserve woollen 

 clothes from the moth; and was formerly much recommended 

 in dysenteries, but is now disused. Native of Scania, Den- 

 mark, and Germany, where it is found in dry sandy pastures 

 and hills, flowering from July to September; also of Japan, 

 where it is used for moxa, and as tobacco, and is found by 

 way-sides, and in ditches, flowering from December to April. 

 This, with the rest of the European sorts, if the seeds are 

 permitted to scatter, will come up with greater certainty than 

 if they were sown;, but they are rather regarded as weeds, 

 than as garden plants. 



. 27. Gnaphalium Rutilans; Shining-flowered Everlasting. 

 Leaves lanceolate ; corymb decompound ; stalk branched at 

 bottom. Stem slender, sending out many lateral branches 

 below, with narrow leaves, hoary on their under side. The 

 flowers are produced in a compound corymb at the ends of 

 the branches; at their first appearance they are of a pale red, 

 but afterwards change to a gold colour; the calices are small 

 and dry, like the ether species of Everlasting. Native of tin; 

 Cape; flowering from the end of June till August. 



28. Gnaphalium Milleflorum ; Many-flowertd Everla.- 

 Flowers corymbed, fastigiate, reddish-white ; culices cubcy- 

 lindric. Stalk a foot high, tomentose ; corymb terminating, 

 with above fifty flowers in it; corollas yellow. Native of the 

 Cape. 



29. Gnaphalium Imbricatum ; Imbricated Everlasting. Leaves 

 lanceolate, tomentose; calicine scales reflex; stalk branched. 

 Stem ash-coloured, tomentose, diffused, erect, scarcely afoot 

 high; branches alternate, wand-like, simple, tomentose, erect. 

 Native of the Cape. 



Gnaphalium Cymosum ; Branching Everlasting. Leaves 

 lanceolate, three-nerved, smooth on the upper surface ; la- 

 ceme terminating; stalk, branched at bottom. Perennial; 

 about eighteen inches high ; stalks woody, cylindric. The 

 flowers are entirely of a gold colour, and smooth, with blunt 

 scales ; they are very numerous, small, and oblong, and, like 

 the leaves, emit, when rubbed, an odour like that of southern- 

 wood. It flowers from April to August, and is a native of 

 the Cape. 



81. Gnaphalium Nudifolium ; Naked-leaved Everlasting. 

 Leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, naked, with netted \< 

 root -leaves lanceolate-ovate, by no means tomentose, sca- 

 brous about the edges. Stalk 'simple, a foot high, L; 

 smaller leaves of a more lanceolate shape at be 

 naked at top; flowers golden, in a compound corymb. Per- 

 ennial. Native of the Cape. 



32. Gnaphalium Luteo-album; Jersey Ever lasting, or Cud- 

 weed. Leaves halt stem-clasping, sword-shaped, repand, ob- 

 tuse, pubescent on both sides ; flowers conglomerate. This 

 is an annual plant, and .very woolly ; stalks many, upright, 

 a foot or eighteen inches in height. It flowers from July till 

 September. There is a variety with narrow leaves, hi. 

 and more branched stalks ; the flowers in close bunches on 

 the tops of the Stalks, of a pale yellow colour. Native of the 



