258 Compostte—Frelichrysume. 
The involucral bracts are scarious, but not silvery or semi-trans- 
parent, and the angular achenes are not beaked, and the pappus 
is rough or pilose. Taken in its widest sense the genus com- 
prehends nearly 300 species, mostly of an ornamental character ; 
but we must confine ourselves to the two or three species in 
general cultivation. The name is from fos, the sun, and 
xpucos, gold, in allusion to the flower-heads. 
1. H. bractedtum (fig. 144).—This is the large-flowered 
species, of which there are white, yellow, pink, crimson, and 
other varieties in cultivation. H. acuminttum, macrocépha- 
lum and chrysdnthum are considered as simple forms of this 
species. Australia. 
2. HH. upiculatum, syn. Chrysocéphalum helochrysovdes, 
Graphalium flavissemum, ete.—This is of rather dwarfer 
stature than the foregoing and covered with a silvery tomen- 
tum. But the great distinction lies in the small clustered 
yellow heads. Australia. 
IT, Stéchas is a South European shrubby species, and H. 
petiolatin, syn. Guiphelium lanitum, is the trailing species 
with woolly leaves commonly used for edging beds. 
32. HELIPTERUM. 
This genus differs from Helichrysuin in having a. soft 
feathery pappus. The species are numerous, inhabiting the 
southern and western parts of Australia and South Africa. H. 
eximium is a beautiful Cape species with thick woolly leaves 
and crimson globular flower-heads. H. spectosissimwm, from 
the same country, has white and orange flower-heads. There 
are three or four annual species, natives of Australia, in culti- 
vation. 
1. H. incanum, syn. H. brachyrhinchum.-—A dwarf tufted 
branching plant covered with a silvery down. Leaves linear, 
crowded at the base of the stem. Flower-heads large, on leaf- 
less peduncles. Involucral bracts yellow, pink, or white. 
2. H. Sanfordii, syn. H. Humboldtiiittin this species the 
flower-heads are small and numerous, in dense clusters, bright 
yellow changing to a mineral green when dry. 
Lanwrencélla rosea, sometimes referred to Helichrysum, is an 
annual about 1 foot high, with linear nearly glabrous leaves and 
pink or white flower-heads on long peduncles. And Schania 
oppositifolia is separated from the neighbouring genera on 
