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GNAPHALIUM. 
ftrdng refemblance to N® 9, but it differs in having a 
regular umbel, larger flowers, and tlie fcales of the 
calyx a beautiful red, in which latl circumftance it re- 
fembles a Xeranthemum. 
33. Gnaphalium hifpidum, or hifpid everlatting: 
leaves linear, femicylindrlc, grooved, hifpid, patulous; 
heads terminating, limple. This fpecies is eadly known 
by the ftiff bridles on its acerofe leaves, and by its ag¬ 
gregate flowers. Thefe nine fpecies, except the 19th, 
are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 
III. Herbaceous, with yellow flowers. 24. Gnapha¬ 
lium cylindricum, or cylindrical everlafting: leaves 
feflile, oblong, tomentofe ; corymbs unequal; calyxes 
imooth, cylindric, feflile. Herb branched, diffufed, a 
fpan in length, tomentofe all over; calyxes very long. 
Imbricate, with equal, ovate, bluntifli, fcales. Native 
of the Cape. 
25. Gnaphalium orientale, or eaflern everlading : of 
winch there are two kinds; the broad-leaved, and the 
narrow-leaved : leaves linear-lanceolate, feffile ; corymb 
compound ; peduncles elongate. Stem feldom riling 
more than three or four inches high, and' putting out 
many heads ; leaves narrow, woolly on both fides, and 
coming out witiiout order; flower-items eight or ten 
inches high, with narrow lioary leaves all the way, ter¬ 
minated by a compound corymb of bright yellow flowers 
in large heads, coming out in May, and continuing in 
fucceilion mod part of the fummer. It has been long 
in Portugal, where in the wdnter feafon they ornament 
the churches with the flowers. This is improperly 
called Gn. orientale, and Eadern everlading, for it is 
luppofed to be a native of Africa. Parkinlon, who 
calls it golden flowergentle, cultivated it in 1629. 
/3. The Ihnibby or narrow-leaved fort grows naturally 
attire Cape of Good Hope. This differs from the oilier 
in riling with dalks four or five feet high, dividing into 
many branches, having long narrow leaves placed alter¬ 
nately ; the corymb is loole, with the flowers on long 
pedicels ; whereas thofe of the other are compaft. 
26. Gnaphalium arenarium, fandy everlading, or 
broad-leaved goldilocks : leaves lanceolate, the lower 
ones obtufe ; corymb compound ; dalks quite limple. 
This is an annual hoary plant, with an oblong root ; 
dem upright, a foot or more in height, white with down ; 
leaves alternate, an inch long, and three or four lines 
wide, half-dem-clafping, quite entire, white with dowm 
on both fides, blunt and frequently recurved a little at 
the tip, the edges rolled back ; the Ihining yellow' heads 
of flowers are two lines in length and breadth ; the ca- 
lycine fcales are ovate, blunt, and lemon-coloured, as 
are alio the corollets. Native of Scania, Denmark, and 
Germany, in dry fandy padures and hills ; flowering 
from July to September. Alfo in Japan, where it is 
ufed for moxa, and as tobacco, by vvay-lides and in 
ditches; flowering from December to April. It was 
formerly much recommended in dy-fenteries, &c. but is 
now difufed. It is luppofed to preferve woollen clothes 
from the moth. 
27. Gnaphalium rutilans, or Ihining-flowered ever¬ 
lading; leaves lanceolate ; corymb decompound ; dalk 
branched at the bottom. Stem llender, fending out 
many lateral branches below, with very narrow leaves, 
lioary on their under fide ; the flowers are produced in 
a compound corymb at the ends of the branches; at 
their fird appearance they are of a pale red, but after¬ 
wards change to a gold colour. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. It flowers from the end of June to the 
beginning of Augud. 
2S. Gnaphalium milleflorum, or many-flowered ever¬ 
lading : flowers corymbed, fadigiate, reddilh-white; 
calyxes fubcylindric. Stalk a foot high, tomentofe; 
corymb terminating, with above fifty flowers in it ; ca¬ 
lyxes Imooth and even, pale, with the lower fcales pur- 
plilh ; corollas yellow. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, where it was found by Thunberg. 
29. Gnaphalium imbricatum, or imbricated everlad¬ 
ing : leaves lanceolate, tomentofe ; calj'oine fcales re¬ 
flex-; dalk branched. Stem aflucoloured, tomentofe, 
diffufed, erect, fcarcely a foot high.. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
30. Gnaphalium cymofum, or branching everlading: 
leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, fmooth on the upper 
furface; raceme terminating; dalk branched at the 
bottom.. The flowers are entirely of a gold colour, 
and fmooth, with blunt fcales; perennial, about eigh¬ 
teen inches in height; dalks w'oody, cylindric; flowers 
very numerous, fmall, oblong. Thefe and the leaves, 
when rubbed, emit an odour like that of fouthernwood. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope ; and flowers from 
April to Augud. 
31. Gnaphalium nudifolium, or naked-leaVed ever¬ 
lading : leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, naked, with 
netted veins. Root-leaves lanceolate-ovate, by no means 
tomentofe, fcabrous about the edge ; dalk limple, a 
foot high, having fmaller leaves of a more lanceolate 
diape at the bottom, and naked at the top : flowers 
golden, ‘in a compound corymb. Gaertner feparates 
this and fome other Gnaphaliums under the name of 
Anaxeton, on account of the receptacle being villofe 
or chaffy only towards the circumference; and the down 
being limple or capillary. Native of the Cape, and pe¬ 
rennial. 
32. Gnaplialium luteo-album, Jerfey everlading, or 
cudweed ; leaves half-dem-clafping, fword-lliaped, re- 
pand, obtufe, pubefeent on both lides ; flowers conglo¬ 
merate. This is an annual plant, and very woolly ; 
Ifalks many, upright, a foot or eighteen inches in height. 
Native of the South of France, Spain, Portugal, Swif- 
ferland, Germany, the illa.nd of Jerfey, the fea-coads 
of Wales, of the wed of England, and near Bognor 
rocks in Sulfex ; in fandy grounds, and on dry banks 
and walls ; alfo of New Caledonia. It flowers from 
July to September. 
There is a variety of this with narrower leaves, not 
quite fo woolly ; the dalks rife higher, and are more 
branched ; the flowers grow in clofe bunches on the 
top of the dalks, and are of a pale yellow colour. 
33. Gnaphalium albefcens, or whitilh everlading : 
fnowy-tomentofe; leaves linear-lanceolate; dalk up¬ 
right, undivided at the bottom ; branches terminating, 
fadigiate; flowers crowded, conical. Shrubby. Na¬ 
tive of Jamaica. 
34. Gnaphalium pedunculare, or pedunculated ever¬ 
lading : leaves fpatulate, fomewhat dem-clafping, to¬ 
mentofe underneath ; calycine fcales lliarpilli. Stalk 
herbaceous, a foot and half in height, branched, dif¬ 
fufed with elongated branches. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
35. Gnaphaliumodoratiffimum, orfweet-fcented ever¬ 
lading : leaves decurrent, mucronate, tomentofe on 
both fides, flat. Stems about three feet high, dividing 
into many irregular branches, on which are oblong- 
blunt leaves, hoary on their under fide, but of a dark 
green above, decurrent ; Items terminated by a com¬ 
pound corymb of flowers, clolely joined together, of a 
bright gold-colour, but fmall, and changing to a darker 
colour as they fade. Native of the Cape. 
IV. Herbaceous, with white flowers. 36. Gnapha¬ 
lium fanguineum, or bloody .gnaphalium : leaves de¬ 
current, lanceolate, tomentofe, flat, v/ith a little naked 
point at the end. Stems about lix inches high, with 
lanceolate acute leaves, woolly, terminated by a large 
corymb of flowers fitting very clofe, and of a fine red 
colour. Native of Egypt and Paledine. 
37. Gnaphalium feetidum, or drong-feented ever¬ 
lading ; leaves dem-clalping, quite entire, acute, to¬ 
mentofe underneath ; dalk branched. This is an an¬ 
nual plant, lending out many oblong blunt leaves near 
the root ; dems a foot and half high ; leaves alternate, 
when handled emitting a very rank odour; dems ter. 
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