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47. compositacej:. 
bracteate or leafy-involucrate densely woolly glomerules, ter- 
minal or sessile in tlie upper 2-3-cliotomies or forks of the st. 
upwards. Involucral br. distinct conspicuous numerous, i. e. 6-8 
or 10 leafy ligulate acute or mucronate short and scarcely rising 
above the glomerules, but forming a distinct complete suberect 
or erecto-patent many-leaved coroniform ruff- or frill-like in- 
volucre to them. Scales of anthodium lax erecto-patent nar- 
row linear-lanceolate carinate ; the nerve excurrent and more 
or less produced into a shining naked subulate prominent awn- 
like point prolonged considerably above or beyond the pappus 
or tomentum of the heads. In the dried spec, it is impossible 
to discern whether the heads were originally sharply and 
deeply angular or otherwise. 
This sp. differs strikingly from F. spathidata Presl and F. 
germanica L. in its much greater and looser woolliness, in its 
mostly bushy branchy habit and numerous ascending or de- 
cumbent st., in its smaller thickly and loosely woolly multi- 
bracteate or polyphyllous glomerules (reminding one a little 
of Lcontopodium ) with the aristate points only of the scales 
rising erectly out of the tomentum and surrounded with a con- 
spicuous frill or coronet of 6-8 or 10 leafy ligulate acute woolly 
involucral bracts. F. germanica L. has the heads more nu- 
merous and closely packed in much larger naked spheroidal 
glomerules and stellately prominent all round like the spikes 
of a caltlirop or Morgenstern and rising quite out of the to- 
mentum at their base. In F. spathulata Presl the heads are 
considerably larger and more distinctly prominent than in the 
present pi., rising also clear out of their tomentum. 
§ 2. Scales of inv. not cuspidate, all or at least the inner al- 
ternate in 3 or 4 rows, finally radiant. Kecept. short 
dilated and flattened at top. (Godr.) 
2. F. minima (Sm.). 
Closely adpressedly and densely snowy-tomentose ; st. often 
dwarfish stiff slender erect or ascending single or numerous, fork- 
branched upwards, leafy ; 1. erect imbricate fiat linear-lanceo- 
late or ligulate acute ; heads couoidal strongly 4-o-angular 
closely and adpressedly tomentose, aggregate 3-10 together in 
9 mall sessile leafy-involucrate stellately radiant tufts or glo- 
merules in the forks or at the ends of the branches, their leafy 
acute br. shorter than the tufts or glomerules themselves but 
numerous; outer scales of authod. 5 ovate-lanceolate gr. woolly 
