PLATE CCCCLXXXIX. | & 
GNAPHALIUM GRANDIFLORUM. ~ 
Largeflowered Gnaphalium. | 
CLASS XIX. ORDER IL. -. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous 
Polygamy. x 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Recerracutum nudum. Pappus pilosus, vel Recerracre naked. Down hairy, or feathery. 
plumosus, Calyx imbricatus, radiatus, ra- Empalement imbricated, rayed, with the 
dio colorato, ray coloured. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
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GwaPuAtium grandiflorum : floribus panicula- GnaPHatium with large flowers: flowers grow 
tis, albis, lucidis : pedunculis albis, lana- in panicles, white, and shining: footstalks 
tis: foliis ovato-acutis, albA land tectis, white, and woolly : leaves are ovate-pointed, 
and covered with a white wool. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A scale of the empalement.. 
2. The same shown from the under side. 
3, A flower complete. 
4. The same magnified. 
5. The seed-bud} chives, and pointal magnified. 
6. Seed-bud and pointal, 
7. The same magnified. 
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Tuts Gnaphalium is at present the largest flowering species (the G. eximium excepted). Its flowers are © 
equally durable with those of any Xeranthemum, nor does it vary essentially in any particalar from 
genus (as a section of which it would have been much better understood). The genus Elychrisam 
we find, upon examination, to be built upon the same equivocal ground, and there is little doubt but 
at some future period those two superfluous genera will fall into the old Linnaan genus of LS a 
themum. Our figure was made from a fine plant in the Clapham collection, about a foot and a balf 
high. We have seen it grow much taller, but it is not then so handsome. It is certainly not aneW — 
plant, but has not been as yet figured in any modern publication. The whiteness so prevalent if it 
flowers and leaves (by way of contrast to the green foliage of most other plants) would rend 
~ deserving a place in every collection, even if its. long-lived shining flowers were not 4 sufficient °° 
commendation, : 
