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linear, acuminate, sessile, narrower towards the base; capituli conglomerate, 
sessile, terminal; involucrum ovate, the scales yellowish, oval or oval-oblong, 
obtuse. 
Has. On the shores of the Pacific, at the estuary of the Oregon: rare. It has almost exactly 
the appearance of Helichrysum graveolens, is heavy-scented, and somewhat glandular beneath the 
copious pubescence. About twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves one to two inches long, one 
to two lines wide, acute or acuminate; scales of the capitulum pale yellow. (I have seen but two 
specimens in a young state: it may, probably, branch at a later period.) It possesses several rows 
of feminine florets, and is therefore a true Gnaphalium. 
Gnaphahum filaginoides, (HooxER and Arnot, Bot. Beechy.) A slender, 
often simple-stemmed species; radical leaves nearly smooth, or smoother, the 
rest whitely tomentose and apiculate. Stem simple. Flowers in sessile, sub- 
terminal clusters; capituli sharply ovate, yellowish, with the floral leaves 
broader, and more whitely and densely tomentose. 
Gnaphalium * microcephalum; suffruticose? densely and whitely lanuginous; 
stem erect, simple; leaves lanceolate, apiculate, sessile, narrower towards the 
base, nearly all similar; capituli conglomerate, 1 in a short spike, ovate; scales 
te, white. 
; . Diego, Upper California: rare. About a foot high, the stem rather woody beneath 
the dense BS tomentum. Leaves one to one and a half inches long, two to three lines wide, 
white on both sides, with a blackish apiculate point. Flowering clusters confluent in a short spike 
or mass about two inches in length, involucrum very floccose at base, white and silvery, herma- 
phrodite florets about five. Somewhat,allied, apparently, to G. lanugi but it strongly resem- 
bles some Of the species from the Cape of Good Hope. (I age seen but a ‘single ecimen. ) 
Gnaphalium spicatum. 
Has. St. Barbara, Upper California. The upper surface of the leaves green, but somewhat 
deciduously tomentose. 
: halium sylwaticum. 
ie In Labrador... (Herb. Schweinitz. ) The low form, with dark scales to the involucrum. 
Gnaphahum * ustulatum; 3, herbaceous, erect; stem simple, terete; the whole 
plant whitely tomentose; stem somewhat floccosely pubescent; leaves oblong- 
spathulate, obtuse, mucronulate, the upper ones narrower, sessile, (not decur- 
er leaves into a dense, 
continuous, short, oblong spike; scales of the involucrum neeolate and linear, 
acute, brownish towards the points. 
: Haz. On the plains of the Platte, towards the Rocky Mountains, and near St. Barbara in Upper 
- Galifornia. Nearly allied to G. spicatum, but without the decurrent leaves, which are whitely 
