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ELICHRYSUM proliferum. 
Sprouting Elichrysum. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUd. 
ELICHRYSUM. Flores tubulosi, marginales -pauciores foeminei. 
Cal. imbricatus inequalis, squamis scariosis, interioribus disco longioribus. 
membranaceis nitidis, radium coloratum constituentibus. Recept. nudum. 
Pappus plumosus y. pilosus. Suffrutices; folia alterna, sepé tomentosa ; 
Jlores terminales; calyx persistens ; squama@ radiales colore varie; ha- 
bitus. GNAPHALI. Jussieu. gen. 179 ; sub XERANTHEMO, suppressis 
Exicuryso alienis. 
E. proliferum, caule ramosissimo, argenteo-tomentoso, ramo omni ra- 
musculis crebris foliatura obesd minuta loricatis obsito. 
Elichrysum proliferum. . Willd. sp. pl. 3.1905. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5... 
22. ‘ 
Xeranthemum proliferum. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1202. Berg. cap. 272. 
Houtt. nat. hist. der pl. 6. 72. t. 51. f. 2. Thunb. prod. 152. An- - 
drews’s reposit. 374. 
X. afric., imis Gnaphalii foliis, supernis verd cupressinis teretifoliis, fl. 
maximo Persice colore. Pluk. am. 213. t. 442. f. 4. 
Elichrysum Abrotani foemine foliis. Breyn. ic. 28. t. 17. f. 1. 
Frutex prolifer, erectus, divaricaté ramosissimus, elastico-rigens ; caulis 8° 
tami <teretes, candicantes, subaphylli, ramulis numerosis curtis imbricato- 
JSoliolosis undique velut veprecula spinis consiti. Folia plante adult ramea* 
sola, vix lineam excedentia, coriaceo-crassa, subconica, obtusa, 4 dorso viridia, 
nitida nudiuscula, a supino pubescentia, imbricato-appressa, omnium singulum 
emisso sub axilld patil deciduum : plant anno junioris alia diversa caulina’ 
mollia numerosa patentia spathulato-oblonga, tomentoso-albicantia, uncialia,’ 
sensim decrescentia, itidem in axilld ramifera; obtinent quoque similia im 
uno aut et altero ramo inferiori, nec ultra. Flores in ramis ultimis termi- 
nales, solitarii, ampli, purpurei. Cal. infra hemisphericus, tomentoso-squar- 
rosus, supra glabrato-radiatus, foliolis interioribus lineari-lanceolatis. Flo 
discoideus, plantusculus, griseus. Flosc. cylindrict, purpureo-fusci, 5-dentati. 
Masc. stigmate 0; germine glabro. Fem. similes, peripherici ; stigmate ex- 
serto, bifido; germine hirsuto. Pappus utrique similis, flosculis aqualis, & 
pilis capitato- dries in feminis coptosior. ecept. depresso-convexum, nus 
dum puncticulatum. Polygamie necessarice planta. pea 
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Throughout this genus, the beauty of. the inflorescence: ~’ 
is in the calyx. ‘This being of a scariose substance, and 
enduring for years with little change, has been the cause 
that our plant has been admired upon the shelf of the 
Botanist, and among the figures of his books for at least 
half a century before it reached his garden. As an “ ever- 
lasting” for the winter-boughpot, Linnzus proclaims it 
GQ 
