216 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composite. 
or hemispherical, with no ray. Involucral scales imbricating, as long as the flowers, erect or slightly patent, often 
scarious. Receptacle flat, naked. Mowers very numerous, all slender and tubular ; the outer female, filiform, in 
several series. Pappus of one series of slender, scaberulous setse. Achenia small, oblong, terete, often papillose. 
(Name from <yva(f>a\ov, wool.) 
1. Gnaphalium luteo-album (Linn. Sp.Pl. 1196) ; erectum, herbaceum, dense lanatum, caule sim- 
plici v. basi ramoso, ramis simplicibus laxe Miosis, foliis lineari-oblongis v. spathulatis linearibusve lineari- 
lanceolatisve utrinque lanatis, capitulis subcapitatim corymbosis, involucri hemisphaeriei squamis nitidis 
fuscis v. flavescentibus.— DC. Prodr. vi. 230; Engl. Bot. t. 1002; Fl. N. Zeal. i. 139. G. moschatum, 
A. Cunn. MSS. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 236. {Gimn, 41, 409.) 
Hab. Abundant in rocky places, and wet or dry pasture-land.— (El. Oct.-Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. Throughout Australia, from north to south, and in all parts of the world, tropical and tem- 
perate, except the colder temperate and polar regions. (A native of England.) 
An extremely common and variable plant, so variable, indeed, that it is difficult to define it.— Mow or less 
densely covered with soft, white, appressed tomentum. Stems 6 inches to 1| foot high, ascending or erect, stout 
or slender, simple or branched (sometimes prohferously m the axils of the leaves). Capitula hemispherical, shining, 
about i inch long, corymbose or almost capitate, sometimes corymbose above and collected in heads along the 
lower parts of the stem or branches. Involucral scales golden-yellow or fuscous, shining. 
2. Gnaphalium involucratum (Forst. Prodr. 291) ; caule simplici v. e basi ramosissimo, ramis 
strictis erectis foliatis simplicibus v. proliferis divisisque cano-tomentosis lanatisve, foliis radicalibus paucis 
omnibus anguste lmeari-ligulatis lanceolatis spathulatisve acuminata mucronatisve planis v. crispatis mar- 
gmibus mtegerrimis ssepe recurvis supremis angustioribus subtus niveo-tomentosis superne glabratis, capi- 
tulis terminalibus v. ramulis brevissimis axillaribus densissime in glomerulos congestis foliis lineari-elongatis 
bracteatis, involucri pauciflori anguste oblongi squamis lineari-subulatis nitidis brunneis paUidisve conni- 
ventibus.— DC. Prodr. vi. 235 ; Fl. K Zeal. i. 139 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2582. G. lanatum, Font. Prodr. 
290. G. Cunninghamii, DC. Prodr. vi. 235. Euchiton Forsteri et pulchellus, Qua. Diet. lvi. 216. 
Hab. Common in many parts of the Island, Gunn, etc.— {Fl. Oct.-Dec.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-east and South-west Australia, New Zealand. 
A very common and variable plant, easily recognized in its ordinary state by the dense round balls of capitula, 
surrounded at the base by spreading or deflexed, linear, leafy bracts.-^ms woody, and generally much branched 
below, annual; branches erect, 1-2 feet high, simple, divided or proliferous, bearing short, leafy ramuli in the axils 
of the leaves, always more or less woolly. Leaves numerous, radical, and on the stem, uniform throughout the 
plant, but the upper narrower, all petiolate, narrow, linear, linear-lanceolate or spathulate, 1-4 inches long, sharp; 
the margins plane or recurved, often crisped; beneath white with appressed tomentum, smooth above. Capitula 
crowded into globose masses, f-1* inch in diameter, which are terminal on leafless, short or elongated tops of the 
branches, or sessile amongst the leaves. Involucres very numerous, narrow ; scales conniving, linear, very narrow, 
scarious; the outer shorter, broader, all usually brown towards the tips, rarely pale yellow-brown throughout, never 
spreading after the florets have fallen away, so as to expose the receptacle, which is very narrow. Florets few, 
about twelve. Achenia papillose or pubescent. 
(Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 44. t. 189); caule e basi ramoso v. simplici, ramis 
simplicibus erectis gracilibus molliter lanatis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis obovato-spathulatis oblongo-lan- 
ceo latisve obtusis apiculatis acutisve superne glaberrimis araneosisve subtus dense niveo-tomentosis lanatisve 
cauhnis angustioribus acutis marginibus revolutis, capitulis in glomerulos dense congestis terminalibus v. 
ramuhs brevibus axillaribus vix bracteolatis, involucri campanula* squamis lineari-oblongis pallidis hyalinis, 
flonbus numerosis.-£a Prodr. vi. 235; FL N. Zeal. i. 139. Euchiton coilinus, Cass. Diet. lvi. 216. 
