[ GNAPHALIUM AND XERANTHEMUM. 561 
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1 the rays of which are spreading. In the second place, the 
female involucra, on the contrary, are longer, cylindrical, 
j with elongated, adpressed, mostly pointed, scales, the inner- 
I most series ccnnivent, and shorter than the pappus, which 
! is closely pressed together, and has a striking resemblance 
I to a camel-hair-pencil. The circumstance of the scales of 
i the female involucrum being uniformly longer, and gene- 
rally pointed, has given rise to frequent mistakes in charac- 
terising the species. In the common Antennaria dioica 
the scales of the male involucrum are broad and rounded, 
while those of the female are lanceolate and pointed. The 
same will be found to be the case with the Antennaria 
alpina, the female of which has always been described. 
There are specimens both of the male and female of this 
plant in the herbarium of the late Earl of Bute, now in 
Mr Lambert's possession. They were collected on the Swiss 
Alps by M. Garcin. The pappus appears to me to aflPord 
the most satisfactory specific characters. 
Leontopodium, Brown. 
Antennaria sp. Gcertn, 
Gnaphalii sp. Linn. 
Involucrum hemisphsericum, imbricatum, lanosura, trun- 
catum : squamis apice sphacelatis. Receptacuhwi planum, 
favosum. i^Zo^a^Zi polygami ; wa^a^Zi tubulosi, 5-dentati ; 
foeminei filiformes: Umbo obliquo, 3-denato. Anther ce. 
basi setis 2, tenuissimis nudis instructse. Stigma foemineis 
bipartitum exsertum : laciniis linearibus, obtusis. Pappus 
difformis, basi connexis ; masculus densissimus radiis apice 
peniculatis, involucro aequalibus, quasi truncatis ; Jwmineus 
papillaris, denticulatus, involucro vix longior. 
Herbae perennes, dense 7iiveo-Ianata, c^ESpitos^e. Folia 
xlterna, integerrima ; radicalibus maocimis. Flores termi- 
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