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8. GNAPHALIUM FRIGIDUM Wedd. 



Glandular-tomentose, from a woody, branching rhizome, cespitose. 

 Stems or branches short, decumbent or diffuse, and ascending, glomeru- 

 liferous at apex. Leaves oblong-spatulate or lanceolate, acute, not (?) 

 decurrent. Heads densely glomerate, glomerules solitary. Involucre 

 hemispherical, scales scarious, obtuse, sordid-whitish. Female flowers 

 very many; disk-flowers hermaphrodite, about 18, with pappus-setce 

 coarsely thickened. 



(Bolivia, etc., at snow-level) ; S. Patagon., by Hatcher in Cordilleras, 

 Feb. 1 6, 1897. 



A specimen in Gray Herbarium from Peruvian Andes at 14,000 feet 

 (4,200 meters) above sea-level, is marked "var.fo/us angustioribus" 



9. G. LUTEO-ALBUM Linn. 



White-woolly, annual herb, with erect, simple or diffusely branching 

 stem. Lowest leaves obovate or oblong-spatulate, obtuse ; cauline semi- 

 amplexicaul, oblong-linear or lanceolate, acute. Heads glomerate-cymose. 

 Involucral scales scarious-hyaline, stramineous, acuminate. 



(Cosmopolitan); N. Patagon., in sandy and damp places. 



10. G. LYCOPODIUM Pers. 



Stem woody, branching, the tops of the branches with thin, dense to- 

 mentum, forming a cross. ("Is it Lucilia or Oligandraf" DC.) 

 Magellan. 



II. G. MAGELLANICUM Sch. Bip. 



Stunted, 5 cm. high, with very short offsets. Leaves oblong-linear, the 

 lowest subspatulate ; villous-tomentose on both surfaces. Heads 5-6, 

 sessile, cymose. Involucre generally half as long as the pappus ; its scales 

 glabrous, weak, straw-brown, ovate, oblong, obtuse, striate, subincised above. 

 Achenes cylindraceous, sparsely hirt. The male plants unknown. 



Magellan ; at Punta Arenas by the seaside. 



12. G. MONTEVIDENSE Spreng. 



Stem herbaceous, ascending, simple, woolly. Leaves sparse, amplex- 

 icaul, spatulate-lanceolate, linear, acutish, plane, woolly. Heads sessile 

 in terminal glomerules ; involucres yellow. 



(Montevideo); Chubut, in rocky places. 



