Gertner, but which, as he has proposed it, consists of three 
tribes of plants sufficiently dissimilar in habit and structure 
to justify a further subdivision ; and, what is remarkable, 
none of them entirely agreeing with his generic character.” 
“ The first tribe consists of herbaceous plants, natives of 
Europe and North America, having the staminiferous florets 
and the pistilliferous florets in distinct imvolucra, and on 
different individuals. To this genus the name ANTENNaRIA* 
may remain, though ’descriptive of the pappus of the stami- 
niferous flower only. Its species are GNapHALIUM dioicum 
Linn., alpinum L., carpaticum. Wahlenberg, plantagineum 
L., and margaritaceum L.” as ~ . . 
“The second tribe consisting of GnapHatium Leontopo- 
dium and leontopodioides, which may be called Lronroro- 
DIUM, is in affinity between ANTENNARIA and GNAPHALIUM as 
here limited, but has sufficient: characters to distinguish it 
from both.” 
* The third tribe has been found only in South Africa, 
and consists of shrubs with rigid heath-like leaves, of which 
the margins are incurved, the upper surface tomentose, and 
the under convex and nearly smooth; but by a remarkable 
twisting they are in most of the species resupinate; a cha- 
racter which seems to have been overlooked in all the 
described species; namely, GNapHatium muricatum, mucro- 
natum, and seriphioides. In this tribe, or genus, which 
may be named Merazasia, the involucrum is generally cy- 
lindrical, and in most species has a short radius (ray) 
formed by the spreading coloured laminze of the inner scales 
(leaflets); the flosculi are few in number, and all both stamen 
and pistil-bearing; and the radii of the pappus, which fall off 
separately, are either thickened or more strongly toothed at 
top.” Brown on the Composite in trans. lin. soc. 
AsTELMA is now first detached from GnNapHaLium by the 
above able hand; and founded upon the present species, 
characterized as a genus by a naked receptacle of the flower 
(neither chaffy nor honeycombed); a sessile feathered seed- 
crown, the radii of which are connected at the base; 
an imbricated calyx, composed of seariose leaflets, the 
ap 
* Fully defined by Mr. Brown in a note in the page from which we are 
extracting, 
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