COMPOSITE. 77 



SPECIES VI.-GNAPHALIUM MARGARITACEUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXLVI. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CiMLI. Fig. 1. 



Autennaria marijaritacea, R. Brown. Bab. Man. Brit. Bat. ed. v. p. 183. Hook. & Am. 

 Brit. Fl. ed. \iii. p. 24G. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 270. 



B/Ootstock not producing leafy barren sboots. Stems erect, 

 herbaceous, simple below, corymbosely branclied at the top. Leaves 

 numerous, all elliptical-strapsbaped, acute. Anthodes numerous, 

 in a compound corymb. Pericline of tlie male plant globose ; 

 pbyllaries strapshaped, brown ; the outer ones woolly and the inner 

 ones glabrous, both wdth a large oval concave plaited glabrous 

 pure-white appendage or lamina rounded at the apex ; florets all 

 with abortive ovaries and no styles. Pericline of the female plant 

 rouudish-bellshaped, with the lamina of the scales ovate-lanceolate, 

 equalling the pappus ; florets, except a few in the centre which 

 are perfect, without any anthers. 



In meadows, and by the banks of rivers. Naturalized in several 

 places, especially in the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and 

 Merioneth. In Scotland, abundant on Blair's Inch, Aberdeen ; 

 near Edinburgh ; and by the banks of the Yarrow, Selkirkshire. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Autumn. 



Rootstock shortly stoloniferous. Stem 1 to 3 feet high, thick, 

 very leafy. Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, densely cottony beneath, 

 at first floccose, but afterwards glabrous above, tapering at both 

 ends, the upper ones at least acute, the lower ones decayed by 

 the time of flowering. Anthodes f to ^ inch across, woolly at the 

 base, with the exposed part of the pbyllaries pure dim-white ; 

 florets yellow. Anthodes of the female plant larger and less 

 globular than in the male. Corolla yellowish, Achenes fusiform, 

 papillose. Hairs of the pappus very slender in the female plant, 

 while those of the short abortive ovary of the male plant are 

 distinctly enlarged upwards, and furnished with thick blunt denti- 

 culations pointing upwards. 



All the specimens collected in Britain which I have seen have 

 been male plants ; but the one figured in Eng. Bot., No. 2018, is a 

 female, to which plate, in the present edition, a portion of the 

 corymb of the male plant has been added. 



Fearly Everlasting. 



French, GnapIuUe Perlee. German, Perlkopfiges Eukrkraut. 



This pretty plant is frequently cultivated in the gardens both of England and the 

 Contiueut, and is said to have been introduced from America about the siiteenth 



