236 COMPOSITE. Gnaphalium. 



lucral bracts ivith brownish or somewhat whitish tips, obtuse. — Pacif. II. Kep. iv. 110; Eothr. 

 in Wheeler Rep. vi. 157. — Eastern Rocky Mountain region, from Wyoming to Now Mexico, 

 and to Mount Agassiz, Arizona ; first collected by Fremont. 



* * * Involucre of the few and naked heads nearly glabrous, brown : female flowers compai'a- 

 tively few, only twice or thrice the number of the hermaphrodite: aiienes broader and flatter: 

 small and low alpine perennial. — Oinalutheca, Cass., DC. 



G. SUpinum, Vill. Cespitose : leaves white-woolly, mainly in radical tufts, linear, less 

 "" than inch long, 2 or 4 on the (inch to span high) simple slender flowering stems, which bear 

 2 to 7 spicately disposed heads. — Delph. iii. 192; Engl. Bot. t. 1193; Hook. I'l. i. 329; 

 Torr. c& Gray, 1. c. G. pusillum, Hajnke; Schkuhr, Handb. t. 267. Omalotheca suplna,'i)C. 

 Prodr. vi. 245. — Alpine region of the White Mountains, N. Hampshire, and Labrador. 

 (Greenland, Eu., Asia.) 



§ 2. GamochJ;ta. Bristles of the pappus united in a ring at base and decid- 

 uous together from the akene : heads spicately or sometimes capitately glomerate, 

 the lower glomerules leafy bracteate : involucre brownish, purplish, or sordid. — 

 Gamocka-ta, "Wedd. Chlor. And. i. 151. 



* Northern (also European) species, perennials: stems strict and simple: akenes fusiform, Inspidu- 

 lous-pubescent. 



~G. Norvegicum, Gcnnee. A span or two higli, silvery-woolly throughout : leaves spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, acute ; the radical often 6 inches long and half-inch wide ; cauline sparse : 

 heads in the upper axils and in an oblong spike : involucre 3 lines long, dark brown or the 

 bracts with a lighter centre. — Fl. Norvcg. 105 (Fl. Dan. t. 254); Syme, Engl. Bot. t. 744. 

 G. si/haticum, Smith (not L.) ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 429. G. sylvatlcam, var. fusccdum, 

 Wahl. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 232. G./usc«2n, Lam. Diet., not Scop. — Labrador; Mount Albert, 

 Lower Canada, Allen. (Greenland, Eu.) 



»G. sylvaticum, L. A span to a foot or more high, more leafy : leaves linear or the lowest 

 linear-oblanceolate, glabrous or glabrate above : heads numerous in an elongated and leafy 

 virgate-spiciform inflorescence: involucre light-colored; the bracts usually only brownish- 

 tipped or with a brown spot below the hyaline-scarious tip. — Spec. ii. 856 ; Fl. Dan. t. 1229 ; 

 Syme, 1. c, t. 743. G. rectum. Smith, Engl. Bot. — Xew Brunswick, roadsides and muddy 

 shores of the Bay of Chaleurs, Fowler, Macoun. Perhaps introduced. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



* * More southern, and wholly American, annuals or biennials, chiefly of the sea-coast or near it. 

 G. purpiireum, L. Canescent with a silvery dense and close coating of white wool, some- 

 times becoming flocculent, simple or branched from the base : stems erect or ascending, 6 to 

 20 inches high : leaves spatulate, obtuse, usually becoming glabrate and green above : heads 

 in a cylindraceous or oblong or in a more elongated spiciforra inflorescence: involucre 

 (2 lines long) brownish, often tinged with purple : akenes sparsely scabrous. — Spec. ii. S54 

 (pL Gronov. & DiU. Elth.) ; Michx. Fl. ii. 127; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 428; Klatt in Linn. 

 xUi. 140. G. spicaium, spathulatum, stachijdifhlium, &falcatum (narrow-leaved form). Lam. 

 Diet. ii. 757, &c. G. Amerlcannm (MiU. Diet.?), Willd. Spec. iii. 1887. G. Pennsi/lviinicmn, 

 WiUd. Enum. 867. G. hi/emale, Walt. Car. 203. G. Chmnlssonh, DC. Prodr. vi. 233. 

 G. ustulatum, Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1. c, ex char. And many other extra-Xorth- 

 American synonyms: polymorphous. — Coast of Mass. to Texas, and interior of Arkansas; 

 also Washington Terr, to S. California and Arizona, in saline soil. (Mex., S. Amer.) 



62. INULA, L. (Old Latin name of Elecamptine.) — A large and varied 

 Old World genus, chiefly of perennial yellow-flowered herbs, with alternate sim- 

 ple leaves, sometimes tomentosc, but not floccose-woolly. SiM'tion Couvisaetia 

 {Jldeniuin, Adans., not L., Corvisar/fn, Merat A; Cass.) consists mainly of 

 .1. HELfeniM, L. (Elecampane, i. e. Eniihi nunp.mii of the liorbnlists.) A coarse and tall 

 herl., m tufts from large perennial (bitter-niucilai;inons) mots: lea\es large, espc-ciallv the 

 petioled ovate radical ones, denticulate, tomento.sc licucath; cauline sc,-;sil,C partly clasping: 

 , )l(^■uls very large, solitary or few terminating the stem or flowering brandies : outer bracts 

 of the involucre ovate and foliaceous ; inner smaller, ol.ovatc and spatulate, obtuse : rays very 



