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47. COMPOSITACEiE. 
woody downwards striate cottony 2-4 or 5 ft. high thickly 
clothed all the way up with short auriculato-acuminate stem- 
clasping 1. ; root-1. 5-6 in. long, 1-1 \ broad, acute, all soft thin 
green and glabrescent above, whitish and thickly cottony be- 
neath, the upper surface somewhat rough or minutely pustulate 
and furry; the whole pi. clammy and when touched or handled 
intolerably and nauseously fetid with a pungent most unplea- 
sant smell like that of Ballota nigra L. Cyme terminal co- 
rymbose branched of numerous large close-crowded or con- 
gested handsome lemon-y. fl. ; the branches tomentose and 
sometimes sprinkled with short red or purple horizontal dis- 
tinct hairs or glands. . Heads 8 or 9 lines in diam. of which 
the large flat velvety cushion-like dusky-3'ellowisk disk is 
4-6 ; compactly globose in bud ; scales shining satiny of a per- 
manent fine bright lemon-y. approaching to golden, radiately 
spreading, the outer shortly and broadly ovate subacute, the 
inner lanceolate acute slightly attenuate downwards not stipi- 
tate. Florets very small numerous and crowded forming a flat 
even velvety disk, the female in several rows. Recept. flat 
finely and equably alveolate altogether naked in the spec. 
Pappus very deciduous y. simple minutely rough or pubescent, 
the length of the florets. Ach. dark brown subquadrangular 4- 
or 5-ribbed covered with minute raised dots or points. 
Gn. fcetidum Sims. BM. t. 1987, quoted by DC., has scarcely 
any resemblance to the Mad. pi., representing something in 
an early stage of inflorescence with pale gr. involucral scales, 
solitary separate not congested fl. and branches of panicle very 
stout short and robust copiously and conspicuously sprinkled 
with red glands. 
Helichr. orientate (L.) DC. vi. 183, the common herbaceous “Ever- 
lasting” of -garlands &c. {Immortelle Fr., Perpetua Port.) with 
y. or lemon-y. heads, included by Von Bucli in his Mad. List 
p. 194. no. 256, is only now occasionally cultivated in pots or 
boxes about houses or in gardens. 
25. GNAniALiuM L. 
1. G. LUTEO-ALBUM L. 
Herbaceous annual thickly snowy -tomentose or greyish-tc. ; st. 
single loosely erect with several shorter ascending side shoots 
from the base or crown, all straight simple or shortly branched 
upwards, leafy; 1. 1 -nerved waved entire not spinulose at the 
edges, the lower oblong spathulate obtuse, upper semiamplcxi- 
caul ligulate or linear-oblong and more or less acute ; heads 
ovoidal or cylindrico-campanulate sessile agglomerate in close 
compact crowded balls or tufts forming a lobed conglobate leafless 
