GXAPHALIUM. 
485 
terminal shortly branched cyme , smooth and naked, loosety cot- 
tony quite at their base only ; scales adpressed subequal oblong 
obtuse smooth shining filmy-hyaline silvery -to. or pale straw- 
colour, the outer with a gr. nerve ; acli. minute naked finely 
punctulato-granulate. — Linn. Sp. ii. 1196; Lam. Diet. ii. 750; 
Desf. i. 266 ; Brot. i. 360 ; Pers. ii. 420 ; EB. t. 1002 ; Sm. E. FI. 
iii. 411 ; Buck 194. no. 257 ; DO. ! vi. 230 ; Koch 400 ; Seub. 32 ; 
WB. ii. 312; Bab. 179; Goss. etGerm. ii. 410; Gren. et Godr. 
ii. 187 ; ItFG. xvi. t. 57. f. i. ; Willk. et Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 61. 
— Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c ; PS. r eg. 2, rr ; GD. r eg. 1, rrr. 
On moist rocks walls and in beds of ravines in Mad. everywhere 
below 2000 ft. ; in PS. only in the Serra de Dentro ; , not ob- 
served in ND. or SD. At all seasons. — This well-known al- 
most cosmopolitan pi. occurs in the Cape V erdes as well as in 
the Can., Mad. and Azorian archipelagos. Whole pi. more or 
less snow-w. and tomentose-liaccid and quickly withering. 
St. 6-18 in. high somewhat slender erect, at first simple or with 
only a few short side branches downwards, presently, or when 
browsed down, with several ascending side branches from the 
base. L. flaccid undulate 14-24 in. long, 2-4 lines broad, the 
upper more or less acute or even acuminate. Cymes silvery- 
straw-colour or pure-w., shortly but distinctly branched, com- 
posed of several globose tufts of densely crowded always simply 
ovate or ovoidal heads. Florets rather numerous all fertile vary- 
ing from pale to dark y. or orange and often (especially the fe- 
male) tipped with pink, blood-red or crimson. Heads l|-2 lines 
long, 1 line broad, copiously woolly quite at the base, in H. 
simply ovoidal ; scales finally radiant. Ilecept. slightly convex 
papulose. Pappus pure w. very fine and deciduous, rough sim- 
ple. Ach. excessively minute not half a millim. long, light 
yellowish brown or fulvous, linear-oblong with straight sides, 
angular and rough with minute shining or pale points. 
tt2. G. spathulatum Lam. 
Herbaceous ann. thinly or loosely tomentose light-gr. ; st. at 
first single erect mostly short with several longer stout weakly 
procumbent or ascending side branches from the base or crown, 
all mostly simple or with short side branches, leafy ; 1. 1 -nerved 
entire greenish thinly tomentose or cobwebby and almost naked or 
glabrescent on the upper side, oblong-spathulate or obovate, at- 
tenuated downwards into rather long or distinct petioles , the lower 
obtuse, the upper mostly subacute, all distinctly mvcronulate ; 
heads small lageniform, in fr. shortly cylindrico-campanulate, 
sessile agglomerate in dense cottony axillary tufts forming an 
often interrupted or irregular leafy short thickish oblong obtuse 
or rounded crowded simple terminal spike, each head gr. and 
loosely but copiously tomentose halfway up, yellowish -brown 
naked and shining above ; scales gr. with pale yellowish or 
