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ovoid (not angular) flowers. Phyll. smooth at 

 top and brown, somewhat acute, a. Fields. 

 Badeuvilliers in Lorr." — DC. 



B. Outer Florets imbedded in the thickened 

 base of the phi/llaries ! 

 11. tenuifolia. " Stem erect, ramoso-di- 

 chotomoua at top. Branches divaricate. L. 

 narrow linear, acute : upper bract-like, re- 

 ciD'ved. Heads e-lO-flov/ered, sessile and ter- 

 minal, wooUy. Phyll. obtuse, a. 4, 5. Dry 

 sandy hills. Sic." — Pael. 



13. g^allica. Branched, dichotomous above. 

 L. linear, acute. Margin somewhat revolute, 

 much exceeding heads. Heads lax, of 3-5 py- 

 ramidal flowers, at the forks and terminal. 

 Outer PhyU. ovate, a. 5, 6. Dry fields. G. 

 occ. Pr. It. 



472. GNAPHA.LIUM. 



A. Flowers complete. Shafts of Crest fili- 

 form, or nearly so. 



1. luteo-album. Fl. in a crowded, leafless 

 corymb. L. oblong, cottony on both sides : 

 those on stem somewhat amplexicaul. PhyU. 

 scariose. Straw-coloured, a. 6. Barren 

 sandy, m. and s. Eur. 



2. uliginosum. Stem branched, diffuse. 

 Heads of PI. leafy. L. linear, attenuate. PhyU. 

 scariose, brown. Seeds smooth. a. 7-9. 

 Plashes. Koch considers G. nudum a var. of 

 this. DC. 'pitts it with G. pUlulare, a Lajdand 

 plant, with rmiriculate seeds. 



3. sylvaticum. Stem simple, ending in 

 a compound spike. L. lanceolate, very attenu- 

 ate, with a callous, nearly naked, obtuse mucro. 

 Outer PhyU. about one-third of length of flow- 

 ers, p. 7, 8. IFoods and heaths. The genuine 

 plant, according to Koch, has the L. on stem 

 gradually decreasing. 



j8. norvegicum. L. on middle of stalk as 

 long as those below, acuminato-mucro- 

 nate. 



7. hoppeanum. Differs from j3 in having L. 



simply acute. 

 All these characters differ very much in 

 degree. 



4. supinum. Shoots creeping, densely 

 cespitose. PI. few (1-8), in a capitate sjnke, 

 sometimes solitary. Outer PhyU. nearly as long 

 as flowers, p. 7, 8. Moist, stony, high moun- 

 tains. Bab. distinguishes supinum, in which 

 the stems are not cespitose, and the floioers 

 are in heads, from pusiUum, which is cespi- 



tose, and has scattered flowers. I do not find 

 these characters go together : pusiUum of Gau- 

 din has the stem shorter than L. 



B. Floivers complete. Shafts of Crests in 

 the disc club-shaped. 



5. Saeontopodiuna. Stem simple. Heads 

 in a crowded corymb, surrounded by a large 

 leafy involucrum, densely wooUy. p. 7, 8. 

 High pastures. Alps. Pyr. 



C. Flowers separate on different plants. 

 i. Shaft? club-shaped. 



6. dioicuiu. Plant with creeping runners. 

 L. obovato-spatulate, cottony beneath : those 

 on stem nearly aU equal. Phyll. of fertUe 

 flowers obtuse, coloured, p. 5, 6. Heaths and 

 dry hills. 



7. alpinum. Runners few or 0. L. obo- 

 vato-spatulate, cottony beneath : those of stem 

 nearly aU equal. PhyU. of fertUe flowers acu- 

 minate, somewhat serrate, lurido-fuscous. p. 

 Very high pastures. Dan. Pyr. 



8. carpathicum. No runners. Stem quite 

 simple. PL erect. L. lanceolate -. upper gra- 

 dually smaller. PhyU. sphacelate, scariose: 

 inner acuminate, p. 7, 8. High moist rocks. 

 Alps. 



ii. Shafts hardly clavate. 



9. mar^aritaceum. Branched, erect. L. 

 Uneari-lanceolate, cottony beneath. PI. in a 

 level-topped corjinb, yeUowish. PhyU. white, 

 obtuse, p. 8. 3Ioist meadows. Monmouth- 

 shire. 



473. HELICHRYSUM. 



A. Phyllaries white, obtuse, radiate. 



1. frigidum. Tufted, procumbent, hoary. 

 L. oblong, sessUe, tiled : those on the shoots 

 nearly in 4 rows. PI. soUtary, terminal. Seeds 

 very sUky. p. Vej-y high. Cors. 



B. Phyllaries yellow. Flowers in a corymb. 



2. scandens. " Shrubby. PI. ovate, at 

 last campanulate. L. Uneari-lanceolate, flat, at 

 last revolute, acute. Plant loosely tufted, 

 hanging from the rocks, w. 5, 6. Bocks 

 exposed to south. Cassaro and Perla in Sic." 

 — Guss. 



3. glutinosum. Shrubby. PI. globoso- 

 turbinate. L. Unear. Margin revolute. Corymb 

 flat at top, glutiuous. w. Sandy shores. 

 Viesti and Peschici in ApuUa. 



4. Stoechas. Shrubby. PI- globoso-tur- 



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