438 
47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
bright purple or crimson upwards or at the tip, giving the heads 
a gayer appearance than in E. canadensis , gr. below. Fits, very 
small and slender filiform, female of margin mostly irregularly 
2-3-toothed not u lingulate or 5-toothed (as described inWB. 
1. c. 209) very numerous in a broad w. outer ring of many 
rows ; perfect of disk few sulphur-v. Pappus sessile dull w. 
sometimes pale brown or fawn-colour with a warm purplish tint. 
Ach. pale brown or straw-colour truncate at top. Recept. 
strongly alveolate, the angles of the cells raised toothed or 
shortly setifonn. 
5. Gnaphalox i. e. Phagxalon Cass. 
1. G. saxatile (L.). Isca in P t0 S t0 . 
Suffr. manv-branched from the base, branches lax diffuse or 
ascending closely and adpressedly snowv-tomentose dividing 
at top subproliferously into several short branclilets each end- 
ing in one or sometimes two slender naked 1-fld. ped. ; 1. ses- 
sile all squarrose loosely spreading or recurved narrow linear- 
lanceolate or linear acute naked glabrescent or thinly webbed 
above, densely snowy-tomentose beneath, the margins revolute 
and in the lower 1. irregularly and remotely repand-toothed 
or waved : ped. solitary scattered or dispersed and axillary to- 
wards the ends of the branches rarely truly terminal or gemi- 
nate, 1-fld. slender elongate ; heads in bud ovate, in fl. and fr. 
oblongo-campanulate or cylindric tli longer than broad ; scales 
compactly imbricate very unequal quite smooth and naked yel- 
lowish gr. and herbaceous with scarious brown tips linear-lanceo- 
late or linear , all nai'roiv and finely acute or acuminate mostly 
very plain or even and entire, closely and adpressedly erect with 
the tips only of the order spreading or recurved ; teeth of florets 
acute and smooth or naked. — Phaynalon saxatile DC. v. 396 ; 
WB. ii. 214 ; Gr. et Godr. ii. 95 ; RFG. xvi. t. 29. f. ii. ; Willk. 
et Lange Fl. Ilisp. ii. 57. Conyza saxatilis Linn.! Sp. 1206; 
Lam. Diet. ii. 87 ; Cavan, in Anales de Cienc. (Madr. Jun. 
1801) No. 10. p. 87. no. 133 (tom. iv.) ; Brot. i. 358 ; Pers. ii. 
428; Buch 194. no. 258; Barrel. Ic. t. 425, 426. — Suflr. per. 
Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc; PS. reg. 1-4, c; ND. c; GD. cc ; SD. 
ccc. On dry sunny rocks everywhere chiefly below 2000 ft, 
March-Dec. — A small inconspicuous wholly scentless shr. 6-18 
in. high with hard stiff woody brittle slender subelongate and 
spreading decumbent or ascending somewhat loose or strag- 
gling closely cottony snow-w. branches. L. 1-3 in. long, 1-3 
lines broad, entirely sessile or semiamplexicaul not decurrent, 
thickly crowded squarroselv recurved and persistent down- 
wards, drying on the pi., dark gr. and gdabrescent above, snow- 
w. and densely cottony beneath. Ped. .almost uniformly soli- 
tary and only sometimes geminate or forked when terminal, 
