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centuiy. Its enduring qualities render it valuable through the winter; for though the 
flowers are less brilliant than those of the exotic species, they are equally lasting, and 
retain their appearance for years. 
SPECIES VII.— GNAP HAL I UM DIOICUM. Linn. 
Plates DCCXLVII. DCCXLVIII. 
Antennaria dioica, Gdrtn. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 182. Hook. <fc Am. Brit. Fl. 
ed. viii. p. 246. Or. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 189. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. 
p. 269. 
Rootstock with procumbent barren shoots with obovate or 
oblanceolate blunt leaves. Flowering - stems erect, herbaceous, 
with rather few strapshaped or elliptical erect leaves, the upper- 
most ones at least acute. Anthodes few, shortly stalked, in a 
head-like nearly simple corymb. Pericline of the male plant 
depressed-globose ; phyllaries strapshaped, brown, the outer ones 
woolly, the inner ones glabrous, both with a large oblanceolate 
flattish white or rose-coloured lamina rounded at the apex ; florets 
all with abortive ovary and no style. Pericline of the female plant 
bellshaped, with the lamina of the phyllaries, especially of the 
inner ones, more elongated than in the male, shorter than the 
pappus; florets all without anthers. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Plate DCCXLVII. 
i:<irh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLI. Figs. 2, 3. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 44. 
Leaves glabrous above, woolly-white beneath. 
Var. /3, hypcrboreum. D. 0. 
Plate DCCXLVIII. 
G. hypcrboreum, Bon, Hort. Cant. ed. vii. p. 237. 
Antennaria hyperborea, _D. Don, Eng. Bot. Supp. No. 2640. 
Leaves woolly both above and beneath, broader than those of 
var. a. 
On heaths, sandy pastures, and alpine rocks. Common, and 
generally distributed in upland districts ; rare in the South of 
England. Var. in the Isle of Skyc. 
Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Hoot stock branched, producing numerous eaispitose barren 
sliuois pound the l>:isr of th(> ilowcring-stcin, which is 2 to 9 inches 
high, slender, unbranched up to the corymb. Anthodes £ inch 
