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Hebbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Flowers Minute in Heads. 



Flowers all Tubular. 



Anaphalis contorta, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 284. 



Himalaya, 7—10,000 



ft. Simla (Collett). 



Kashmir. 



Phagnafon niveum, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 288. 



Himalaya, 6-8,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



small to medium size, branches often prostrate; 

 leaves -|-1 by ^ in., linear, heads ^ in. diam. in 

 dense terminal flat-topped clusters, outer bracts of 

 the heads often purple ; for other characters see 

 the last species. 



small, annual, snow-white with dense cottony 

 wool, branches short and leafy or slender and less 

 leafy ; leaves 1-]^ in., ovate with a broad tip to 

 oblong with rounded ends or linear-oblong some- 

 times toothed ; flowers minute, yellow and tubular 

 in axillary solitary or clustered heads ^-^ in., 

 diam. on slender stalks, 1-3 in., bracts of the heads 

 awl-shaped, straight ending in a needle-like point, 

 purplish, outer smaller, grey cottony, pappus hairs 

 slender rigid, corollas, inner 5-fid, outer 2-3-tooth- 

 ed, anther bases forked or entire ; achenes small, 

 not ribbed. 



small, annual, very variable, woolly, much branch- 

 ed ; leaves 1-2 by I in., oblong with blunt tips, 

 base often ^ steam-clasping, both surfaces woolly, 

 upper leaves lanceolate short-pointed ; flowers 

 minute whitish, yellowish or brownish in heads, 

 ^ in., diam. in leafless dense glistening flat-topped 

 clusters, bracts of the heads oblong, blunt, trans- 

 parent, yellowish glistening, pappus hairs scanty, 

 short, outer corollas 3-4-toothed, inner larger 

 6-toothed, anther bases forked, cells with slender 

 tails ; achenes oblong, slender, rough with tuber- 

 cles or minute curved bristles. 

 Gnaphalium hypoleucum, very like the last species, but taller and stouter, 

 OoMPOSiTiE. leaves longer, long-pointed only woolly beneath and 



F. B. I. iii. 288. often with widely projecting bases. 



Himalaya, 3-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Gnaphalium indicum, annual, slender, more or less covered with white 



CoMPOSiTJE. wool, stems many, leafy branches slender ; leaves 



F. B. I. iii. 289. ^-^^ iii-t linear-ovate with broad tips or oblong, 



The Plains to 1,000 ft. narrowed to the base with rounded tips and an 

 abrupt point, woolly on both surfaces, lower leaves 

 shortly stalked, heads | in., diam. in simple or 

 branched leafy spikes or in ovoid clusters, bracts of 

 the heads linear-oblong, short-pointed, pale red- 

 dish-brown or yiillow, inner nearly smooth, achenes 

 minutely rough ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



Gnaphalium iuteo-album, 



Jersey cudweed, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. J. iii. 288. 



The Plains to 10, 000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



