HELICHRYSUM MACRAN’THUN. 
oe HELICHRYSUM. 
EXOGENZ. DICOTYLEDONEZ. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant ct 
NATURAL — COMPOSITA, 
CALYCIFLORA, TA, 
F POLYGAMIa, 
OF LINNEUS, 
to whic 
this Plant belongs. 
Artificial divisions \ 
DECANDOLLE, 
No. 92. 
. 
"GENUS. HSLicemyYsuM. | VAILLANT. _CarituLum multifloram, nune homo- 
ce hetero 
ew 
ea qe: : ore Pec reer ee 
softs a 5 
. : “ct 
ora ™ 
Godse imbricaty 
bus. Recepracu.um Sat me ee ss nune nudum aut areolatum, nu: nune 
ZNIA erostri Tia, sess roy areola, terminali. _Paprus uniseri- 
E 
ura alterna. Invorvucra alba, purpurea e t flava. Coro. lutex au 
puree. Decanpotze: Prodromus, v. 6, p. 169. 
ECIES. HeticurysuM mMacrantHuM. Bewruam. HeErsacevm, erec- 
um, caule subsimplici vel parce ramoso, ramis scabris apice monocephalis, fo- 
= 28 a saat oe cbsasis bers ae peraiae anqneteis et amplexicauli- a8 
tati o albo — — 
san bted int lii li tis, ree 
‘Svutie “hitwute mucronula 
pappo scabro. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, HexicHrysum. Heap of flowers 
many-flowered, sometimes homogamous, with all. the florets tubular, 
hermaphrodite and five-toothed, sometimes heterogamous, the florets 
of the ray in one row, often but very few, slender and female. Invo- 
lucre imbricate, the scales scariose, the interior ones sometimes conni- 
vent, sometimes radiating. Recepracie flat without palex, either 
quite naked or with alveol or little hairs. Acnanium not beaked, 
sessile, with the point of attachment terminal. Hairs of the pappus 
in one row, rough but not feathered, sometimes free, sometimes con- 
nected equally at the base, or unequally joined or branched. 
Description oF THE Species HELICHRYSUM MACRANTHUM. 
Srem herbaceous, erect, or ascending and branched at the base, 
branches simple or trifid, rough but neither hairy nor cottony. LEavEs 
oblong-lanceolate, or the lower ones spathulate, obtuse, quite entire, 
contracted at the base into a short petiole which is dilated as it em- 
braces the stem, green and rough on both sides but not woolly. Hess 
