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pollicares, simplices s. ram-osi. Folia sparsa, membranacea, 

 sessilia, argenteo - tomentosa, oblongo - elliptica , acominata, 

 2 — 5"' circiter longa, vix nnquam linea latiora, summa ra- 

 mis tota adpressa, inferiora ma^s minusve divcrgenlia apicc- 

 que recurva. Capitula multiflora, aeque magna ac in scsa- 

 moide, cernua, solitaria, ramos usque ad apicem summum 

 dense foliatos terminant. Involucrum longe radians, tur- 

 binatum, imbricatum, foliolis nitidis, planis, scariosis, acumi- 

 natis, ex semilanceolatis, fuscescentibus , in linearia circiler 

 9 /y/ longa, superne virescentia, basi virescentia. Rhachis 

 ex Thbrg. nuda. Pappus setaceo-capillaris, ramosus, uni- 

 serialis, corollae lutescenti, gracili aequalis, penicillatus. 

 Achaenia haud suppetunt. 



Species involucro turbinato, pappo ramoso tomentoque 

 argenteo insignis. 



26. Helickrysum stolonifcrum (Thbrg. cap. 6621 

 XeraritJicmum stohn/ifcrum L. suppl. 367. Argyrocoma rc- 

 torta Cass. Dict. XXXIV. 39 excl. synon.) 



Fruticulus argenteo- tomcntosus ramis usque * 

 ad apicem summum dense foliatis; involucris basi 

 obtusis, pairum radiantibus; capitulis solitariis; 

 pappo ramoso. 



Radix lignosa, profunde descendens, perpendicularis, 

 fusiformis apice protrudit caules multos, ramosos ramosque 

 alternos saepeque secundos, graciles, lignosos, humifusos, ta- 

 tos dense foliatos, quorum multi steriles, abbreviati cespitem 

 sistunt. Folia sparsa, confertissima, membranacea, argen- 

 teo-tomentosa, elliptica, acuta, sessilia, obsolete i^nervia, 2 

 — ?) >li longa, 1'" lata, erecto-patentia apiceque recurva, in- 

 feriora pl. divergentia. Capitula multillora, homoganiu, 

 cifeiter 5 /y/ alta, solitaria et terminalia in ramis saepe bre- 

 vis%imis (fl. 2 paucis in ambitu Cass. 1. c. ) Involucriun 

 campanulatum, vix parum radians, mulliserialc, basi obtusum, 

 scario&um, nitidum , ioliolis planis, acnminatis, ex rotundo- 

 ovatis, parvis, pallide fuscescentibus in obovato-linearia, au- 

 gusta, circiter Ai'" longa, superne rosea. Rhachis plana, 

 nudissima, diametro vix {'" longo. Pappus uniserialis, ra- 

 mosissimns, cor»llae aequalis, neque clavatus neque plumosus. 

 Ovaria scabra. (v. sp. 3 in hrb. Thbrg.) 



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