Plate 32. 
GNAPHALIUM PUEPUKEUM. 
Family, Composite :— Petals united. Corolla bearing the stamens. 
Florets in heads. Anthers united in a ring round the style. Ovarv 
1-celled. Fruit 1-seeded. ^ 
Genus, Gnaphalium {Cud-weed) :— Herbs, with woolly alternate leaves. 
Inflorescences, or heads of tubular pistillate and perfect flowers, 
clustered in terminal or axillary bunches. Involucral bracts in 
series, adpressed, coloured. Anthers tailed. Pappus one row of 
silky hairs. 
Gnaphalium purpureum, L. Plant about 4-12 in. high. 
Stem erect, not branched, uniformly leafy throughout its length.' 
Leaves narrowly spoon-shaped, hairy below, upper ones more 
oblong and not stalked, lower sometimes with a stalk. In- 
florescences not stalked, in axils of upper leaves. Involucral 
bracts bronze-coloured or purplish, woolly at base, narrowly 
oblong. Pappus hairs united at base. 
Dry ground near sea. Fairly common. 
East and West Falklands. 
Description of plate :— 1, whole plant ; 2, flower head ; 3, female or 
outer flower ; 4, hermaphrodite or inner flower ; 5, stamens and pistil : 
6, stigma ; 7, fruit. All except 1 enlarged. 
