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florets long exserted bifid, of the disk undivided obtuse : 

 achaenia glabrous, obcompressed, sessile, erostrate : pappus 

 1 -series uniform, bristles rough not clavate. Herbaceous or 

 suffruticose woolly or tomentose plants : stems sometimes 

 1-cephalous, oftener polycephalous, corymbose : scales of the 

 involucrum niveo-scariose lanceolate several series, the middle 

 ones with a brownish claw : receptacle convex, alveolate. 

 [This genus, judging from specimens named by D. C, ought 

 never to have been separated from Gnaphalium, as there is 

 not a single distinguishing mark of the least value or constancy 

 between them, and several species I have carefully examined 

 may be placed in either or neither genus, as agreeing with 

 neither, but too closely allied to both to form a separate genus ; 

 the two genera reunited, would give good characters, but 

 divided, they neutralize each other and become of no value.] 



65. Leontopodium, (Brown D. C. 6-275). Capitula 

 heterogamous, ray flowers female : 1 or several series : 3 4 

 denticulate, disk bisexual-sterile infundibuliform 5-toothed, 

 the style clavate at the apex : achaenia cylindrico- compressed : 

 pappus of the female barbellate, of the sterile flowers usually 

 clavate. Perennial mountain herbs, woolly-tomentose ; leaves 

 oblong or the- lower one obovata; capitula terminal, umbellato- 

 corymbose, middle capitulum of the central corymb sessile, 

 the female flowers 1 -series ebractiolate earlier; the lateral 

 ones short pedicelled, females many series, furnished with 

 a woolly foliaceous bractea, therefore a glomerulate, bound 

 by radiating floral leaves : scales of the involucrum adpressed 

 woolly receptacle, convex foviolate, [apparently scarcely dis- 

 tinct from the preceding.] 



66. Carpesium, (Lin. D. C. 6-281). Capitula heteroga- 

 mous discoid, marginal flowers female several series, disk 

 hermaphrodite : anthers caudate : branches of the style terete, 



obtuse, subglabrous : achaenia oblong, compressed rostrate 



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