GXAPHALOJT. 
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rather numerous, and, though scattered or dispersed down the 
branches, rising subcorymbosely towards their ends 2-6 in. above 
the 1., 2-6 in. long very slender but stiffly erect and nearly or 
quite straight, cottony-floccose, a little thickened close beneath 
the heads but not so gradually or so much as in G. colycinum 
(Cav.) or G. rupestre (L.). Heads 3-5 lines long, 2-3 broad ; 
in fl. oblong a little swollen at the base, afterwards contracted 
upwards and oblong-ovate ; fejnale fl. of margin pale straw or 
lemon-y. in a broad outer- ring ; perfect fl. of disk pale dull 
ochre-v. ; the teeth of all acute quite smooth and naked or 
beardless. Scales of inv. quite smooth and shining light gr. 
with dark-brown scarious tips, closely and tightly adpressed, 
the outer with the tips only recurved spreading or reflexed, 
the inner narrower paler more acuminate and altogether com- 
pactly and adpressedly erect and as long as the outer ’female 
florets ; all mostly flat even and entire, but with the scarious 
edges upwards sometimes crisped or subundulate and some- 
times here and there toothed. Pappus nearly w. a little stif- 
fish simply scabrous sessile. Recept. naked papillary. Ach. 
hairy, frequently abortive. 
Barrelier’s t. 425 exactly represents the pi. as it very fre- 
quently occurs browsed down by goats &c. with smaller shorter 
aud broader leaves. 
In drying all the scales of the inv. become somewhat lax or 
loosely erecto-patent ; but in the live pi. they are always closely 
and tightly or compactly adpressed, with the brown tips only 
free and recurved. 
Gnaphalon ( Tva(f)a\ov ) is quite distinct enough from Gna- 
phalium to render entirely inexcusable and intolerable Cassini's 
puerile anagrammatic transformation of it into Phagnalon. 
2. G. rupestre (L.). 
Suffr. dwarfish sparingly branched, branches stout robust and 
mostly short and thickly leafy, closely and adpressedly snowy- 
tomentose; 1. sessile or lialf-amplexicaul not decurrent, the 
upper erect straight and stiflish thickly tomentose linear with 
strongly revolute entire margins, the lower lanceolate or elon- 
gato-spathulate much attenuated downwards, glabrescent above, 
often remotely repand-toothed, sometimes squarrose or re- 
flexed ; ped. geminate or ternate subcorymbose and terminal or 
nearly so, rarely solitary, 1-fld. slender "elongate ; heads in bud 
globose or hemispherical , in fl. and fr. shortly and broadly oblong 
or cylindnc large as broad as long ; scales “ adpressed,” loosely 
imbricate when dry, very unequal, quite smooth, wholly brown 
and stiffly scarious or even coriaceous , the middle and outer 
