GOMPOSELS. 77 
SPECIES VL-GNAPHALIUM MARGARITACEUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCXLVI. 
Smeh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et llelv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLI. Fig. 1. 
Antennaria margaritacea, A'. Brown. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 183. Ifuok. ic Am. 
Brit. Fl. o,l. viii. j>. 24& i>. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 270. 
Rootstock riot producing leafy barren shoots. Stems erect, 
herbaceous, simple below, corymbosely branched at the top. Leaves 
numerous, all elliptical-strapshaped, acute. Anthodes numerous, 
in a compound corymb. Pericline of the male plant globose ; 
pin llaries strapshaped, brown ; the outer ones woolly and the inner 
ones glabrous, both with a large oval concave plaited glabrous 
pure-white appendage or lamina rounded at the apex ; florets all 
with abortive ovaries and no styles. Pericline of the female plant 
roundish-bellshaped, witli the lamina of the scales ovate-lanceolate, 
npialling the pappus ; florets, except a few in the centre which 
are perfect, without any anthers. 
In meadows, and by the banks of rivers. Naturalized in several 
places, especially in the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and 
.Merioneth. In Scotland, abundant on Blair's Inch, Aberdeen; 
near Edinburgh ; and by the banks of the Yarrow, Selkirkshire. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Autumn. 
Rootstock shortly stoloniferous. Stem 1 to 3 feet high, thick, 
very leafy. Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, densely cottony beneath, 
rst tloccose, but afterwards glabrous above, tapering at both 
ends, the upper ones at least acute, the lower ones decayed by 
the time of flowering. Anthodes f to \ inch across, woolly at the 
base, with the exposed part of the phyllaries pure dim-white ; 
florets yellow. Anthodes of the female plant larger and less 
globular than in the male. Corolla yellowish. Achenes fusiform, 
papillose. Hairs of the pappus very slender in the female plant, 
while those of the short abortive ovary of the male plant arc 
distinctly enlarged upwards, and furnished with thick blunt denti- 
cuhitions pointing upwards. 
All the specimens collected in Britain which I have seen have 
been male plants ; but the one figured in Eng. Bot., No. 2018, is a 
female, to which plate, in the present edition, a portion of the 
corymb of the male plant has been added. 
Pearly Everlasting. 
French, Gnaphale I'trlce. German, Perlkopfiges Rulwhraut. 
This pretty plant is frequently cultivated in the gardens both of England and the 
iuent, and is said to have been introduced from America about the sixteenth 
