The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
43 
This is a white woody plant of /Ethiopia: the Stem is thick, 
and brown : the young Shoots are of a filvery grey : the Leaves are 
alfo of a filvery colour : the Flowers are of a delicate yellow. 
18. GOLDEN CUDWEED. 
Plate 105. Fig. 18. 
Chara£lerof the Species. Gnaphalium orientals. 
The Leaves are numerous, the flowers form a great jjglo- 
bular head. 
This is a Perennial, woody plant, native of Africa : the Stem 
is brown, the young Shoots are filvery and white : the largeft Leaves 
grow toward the bafe of the (hoots, and are a little folded, and of a 
filvery colour : the Flowers are of a very glorious yellow. Cups 
and all. 
r 9 . CRIMSON CUDWEED. 
Plate 106. Fig. 19. 
Character of the Species. Gnaphalium rutilans^ 
The Leaves are lanced, the Stalk branches from the 
bottom : the Flowers grow in recompound cluflers. 
Fig. 19. a b.. 
This is a Perennial, native of Africa ; a foot and a half high : 
the Stem is firm, whitifh, and downy : the Leaves are of a pale 
green : the Flowers are crimfon at firft, but become yellow as they 
open fully. 
20. FIERY CUDWEED. 
Plate 106. Fig. 20. 
Chara&er of the Species. Gnaphalium ignefcens. 
The Leaves are linear and woolly : the Flowers are red, 
and ftand in alternate cluflers along the Stalk. 
Fig. 20. a l. 
This is a Perennial, native of Africa. The Stalk is tough and 
firm : the Leaves are of a downy afpedt, and white : the Cups are 
filvery and (hining j but the Florets themfelves are of a fiery red. 
21. RE- 
