288 LXXTiii. cOMPOSiTiE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Phagnalon. 



sometimes minutely tailed. Style-arms of 5 slender, obtuse, truncate or sub- 

 capitate. Achenes small, not ribbed ; pappus hairs 1- seriate, slender, rigid,, 

 persistent. — ^Disieib. About 14 species, Mediterranean and W. Asiatic. 



P. niveum, Edgew. in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xi. 68 ; branches and leave* 

 beneath snow-white with dense cottony wool, leaves from obovate to elliptic- 

 oblong or linear-oblong entire or sinuate-toothed, heads axillary. — P. denticu- 

 latum, Clarke Comp Ind. 113, and Berh. Ind. Or. H. f. Sf T., not of Done. 



Western Himaiata and Western Tibet; from Garwhal to Kashmir, alt. 

 6-8000 ft. 



Branches 4-10 in., short and leafy or slender with scattered foliage. Leaves 1-lJ 

 in., sometimes spathulate and much narrowed into the sessile base, glabrous or cottony 

 above. Heads ^-\ in. diam. ; peduncles 1-3 in., slender; invol. bracts subulate, 

 straight, gradually narrowed to an aeicular point, purplish, cottony and hoary. — ; 

 Elongated branches a good deal resemble P. acuminatum, Boiss. of Beluchistan, but 

 the invol. bracts are different. 



42. GNAFKAXiXTTIH, Linn. 



Hoary or woolly herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. Heads small, in 

 terminal or axUlary corymbs or fascicles, heterogamous, disciform ; flowers all 

 fertile, outer 2 , 2-oo -seriate, filiform, 3-4-toothed ; disk-fl. (^ , fewer, slender, 

 limb dilated 5-toothed. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; bracts oo -seriate, 

 aU scarious or with a white yellow or brown more or less scarious blade ; recep- 

 tacle naked or pitted. Anther-bases sagittate, cells with slender tails. Style^ 

 arms of 5 truncate or capitate. Achenes oblong or obovoid, not ribbed ; pappus- 

 hairs 1-seriate, slender or thickened at the tip, caducous, connate at the base or 

 not. — DiSTRiB. Cosmopolitan. About 100 species. 



This genus is hardly distinguishable from Helichrysum and from Anaphalis, of 

 which G. htteo-aVnim and hypoUuciim have entirely the habit. 



* Heads in corymbose leafless clvjsters. 



1. G-. luteo-album, Linn. ; Bois». Fl. Orient, iii. 224 ; wooUy, stem 

 corymbosely branched above, leaves woolly on both surfaces oblong-spathulate 

 obtuse upper lanceolate acute ^amplexicaul, heads whitish yellow or brown 

 shining, invol. bracts oblong obtuse, achenes tubercled or with minute curved 

 bristles. Clarke Comp. Ind. 114. G. orixense and G. albo-luteum, Roxh. FL 

 Ind. iii. 425. — Synaathera, Wall. Cat. 7415. 



Throughout India ; from Kashmir to Birma and southwards to Martaban, ascend- 

 ing to 10,000 ft. in Sikkim. — Disthib. Most hot and warm temperate counties. 



A very variable annual 4-12 in. high, with leaves 1-2 in. long, rarely more than 

 J in. broad, and leafless, dense corymbose clusters of glistening heads. The European 

 form with very pale heads does not occur east of Afghanistan ; the two following 

 extend eastwards to Japan. 



Var. 1. multiceps ; stems usually many from the root, heads golden-yellow. — G. 

 multiceps, Wall. Cat. 2949 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 222. G. ramigerum and confusum, 

 DC. I. e. G. afSne, Don Frodr. 173. G. martabanicum. Wall. Cat. 2950.— The 

 Himalaya and Khasia Mts., near the foot of the hills, rarer on the plains. Mar- 

 taban, Wallich. Mt. Aboo, King. 



VAr. 2. pallidum; heads pale brown.— G. pallidum. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2953. 

 Very common. 



2. G-. bypoleucum, BC. in Wight Contrib. 21 ; IVodr. vi. 222 ; stem 

 above and leaves beneath woolly, leaves sessile linear acuminate puberulous or 

 scaberuloua above, base dUated ^-amplexicaul, beads many in corymbose dense 



