532 
ASTELMA. eximium, 
Globe Asteima. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA QUALIS. (Brown.) 
Nat. ord. Composit. Adanson fam. 2. 103. 
CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen.177. Div. [. Recept. nudum. 
Sem. papposum. - Flores flosculosi. urine « 
INULER. Cassini in journ. de phys. 88 (an 1819). 193. Sect. 
Jnulez-gnaphaliez. 
- ASTELMA.  Receptaculum nudum (nec paleatum nec favosum), — 
Pappus plumosus, sessilis: radiis basi connatis.  Involucrum (calyx) im- 
bricatum, squamis scariosis: intimis conniyentibus. Brown MSS. 
Astelma eximium. Brown MSS. y 
Gnaphalium eximium. Linn. mant. 573. ~ Thunb. prod, 152. Jacq. coll. 2. 
295. Curtis’s magaz. 300. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1849, Andrews’s reposit. 
654. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 10. é 
Gnaphale globuleuse. Lamarck encyc. 2. 146. 
Flichrysum africanum, foliis ‘lanceolatis integris tomentosis decurrentibus, 
capitulis congestis ex rubello aureis. Edwards's birds. 183. t. 183, 
Caulis sesquipedalis lignosus, crassitudine digitt, tomentosus, totus foliis 
dense contectus, simplex vel juatd apicem uniramosus. Folia ovalia, acumi- 
nata, integra, enervia, utrinque tomento gossypino copioso lanata, sparsa, 
numerosa, conferta, semiamplexicaulia, 24 uncie longa, latitudine sesquiun- 
ciali v. magis, viridi-incana. Corymbi terminales sessiles, pedunculis tomen- 
toso-lanatis breviusculis. Flores magnitudine fere Cerasi juste molis, globosi, 
calyce imbricato, lucido, vivide purpureo, foliolis ovali-lanceolatis, con- 
cavis, conniventibus, nec apice rotundatis,’ nec obtusis, ut habet Linneus. 
(Lam. é texth gall. vers.) 
Syngenesia, a class of the artificial system correspond- 
ing with Composite of the natural system, and comprising 
the largest of the vegetable families, has been recombined 
by M. Cassini, in twenty subordinate divisions called 
tribes, with the following titles: 1, Lactucece. 2, Carlinec. 
3, Centauriee. 4, Carduinee. 5, Echinopsee. 6, <Arc- 
totidee. 7, Calendulee. 8, Tagetinee. 9, Helianthec. 
10, Ambrosiee. 11, Anthemidee. 12, Inulew. 13, As- 
terece. 14, Senecionew. 15, Nassauvier. 16, Mutisiec. 
17, Tussilaginee. 18, Adenostylee. 19, Eupatoriee. 20, 
Vernonice; most of which, in his view, resolve into sec- 
tions as consistent and mutually distinct as the tribe of 
which they are component parts. For instance, Inulew, 
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