the tribe where the present genus stands, and the most — 
extensive except Helianthew, resolves into his sections — 
Inulece-bupthalmece, Inulece-prototypece, and Inulece-gnapha. — 
liee; the first denoted by a nonscariose calyx, anthers un. — 
appendanted at the base, and round-topped stigmas; the 
second by a nonscariose calyx, anthers appendanted at the — 
base, and round-topped stigmas; the third by a calyx sca~ _ 
riose throughout, anthers appendanted at the base, and _ 
truncated or flat-pointed stigmas. 
The enumeration of the genera composing the forego. 
ing tribes is announced) for the head. Jnulece of the next — 
ensuing part of the “Dictionnaire des:Sciences Naturelles,” — 
a work in course of publication in France, and: by the | 
article Gnaphaliee of which we have been supplied with — 
the above information. 
We. cannot but regret to find in the instructive article, — 
from which we have borrowed so freely, the peevish cayil — 
applied by M. Cassini, in the place of criticism, to a de. — 
finition proposed by Mr. Brown for GNnarHaLium; which — 
very definition -is, after all, adopted upon the spot with- — 
out amendment or addition, except the insertion of points 
already expressed in the character of the order, and con- — 
sequently supererogatory in that of the genus. Can it be, 
that that ingenious botanist has been affronted by the 
sagacity with which he has been more than once success- 
fully anticipated from the,same quarter? 
We shall here insert some observations by Mr. Brown 
upon a proposed reform of GNAPHALIUM. 
_ /* This extensive and ill-defined genus evidently requires 
reformation; and if the necessity for its subdivision be ad- 
mitted, it will also, I believe, be found most expedient to 
apply the name GnapHatium to that section to which G, 
luteo-album, sylvaticum, and. uliginosum belong, and which 
is characterized by its naked receptacle, its imvolucrum 
(calyx) connivent at top and of equal height with the trun- 
cated capitulum (syngenesious flower), which consists of nu- 
merous filiform pistilbearing florets in the circumference, 
with a smaller number of stamen and pistilbearing florets 
in the disk, both of them ripening seeds, and having a 
sessile capillary deciduous pappus (seedcrown).” 
“* ANTENNARIA is a genus separated from GNaPHALIUM by 
* 
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