A veiy handsome plant, 3-3 feet long, with the woody, prostrate, lower part of the stem sometimes a foot
long, and as thick as a swan’s-qiiül. Branches ascending, 3 feet high, grooved and covered with silky pubescence,
leafy. Leaves 3-4 inches long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, shaip-pointed, one- or three-nerved, glabrous above,
densely covered below with wliite appressed silky wool. Corymbs of twelve to twenty white heads, i inch in diameter,
on woolly peduncles.—Closely allied to G. trinerve, but a very much larger plant, with longer leaves and
many-headed corymbs, which terminate the branches and are not pedunculate.
4. Gnaplialium trinerve, Porst.; caule elougato prostrato parce ramoso folioso apice sericeo in pedun-
cuhim lanatum bracteatum corymbiferum abeunte, foliis patulis ( | - f uuc.) obovato-spathulatis lauceolatisve
acuminatis mucronatis enerviis v. 3-nerras superne subsericeis glabratisve subtus argenteo-lanatis, corymbis
oligocepbaüs, capitulis 3-6 longe pedicellatis, involucri squamis interioribus multiseriatis longe radiantibus,
receptáculo lato convexo. Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr.
H ab . Northern aud Middle Islands. Dusky Bay, Forster; Milford Sound, Lyall; foot of the Bua-
hiue range, Colenso.
A beautiful aud very distinct species, witb prostrate, sparingly branched stems. 3 feet long, loosely covered
along their whole length with sju-eading leaves; the branches silky and woolly, terminating in loosely bracteated
woolly peduncles, 4-10 inches long, which bear a corymb of a few large heads. Leaves x - f inch long, obovate-
spathulate, obscurely three-nerved or nerveless, abruptly acuminate, with a sharp muero, glabrous, sparingly silky
ahove, densely clothed below with silvery pubescence. Corymbs of three to six heads, ou woolly pedicels. Heads as
large as in G. Lyallii and similar to them.—The specimen figured in Forster’s coRection of drawirrgs has a more
robust stem and larger leaves than Dr. LyaU’s. The three nerves are often very indistirrot.
5. Gnaphalium Keriense, A. Cunu.; caule basi decumbente ramoso brevi v. elongato, ramis ascendentibus
V. erectis lanatis apice abbreviatis v. eloirgatis corymbiferis, foliis anguste lineari-lauceolatis oblongo-
obovatisve acuminatis v. obtusis et mucronatis 1-3-nerviis supra glabratis subtus dense uiveo-tomerrtosis,
corymbrs polyceplrahs tomentosis, capitulis parvis, involucri squamis omuibus albidis longe radiantibus,
receptáculo corrvexo latiusculo. Helichrysum micranthum, A. Cmm. in LC. Prodr. G. dealbatum, Forst.
Prodr.?
Var. /3. linifolia; foliis angustissime lineari-lanceolatis.
V'ar. y. macroleima; involucri squamis latioribus lacero-dentatis.
Var. y. spathulata; foliis spathulatis, corymbis pedunculatis.
H.1E. Abundant in the Northern and Middle Islands, in various localities, Forster, Frazer, Cmininy-
ham, etc.
A rather variable plant in habit, size, and form of the leaves, easily recognized by the smaU heads from any of
the preceding. Stems slender, branching, naked below, and rather woody, prostrate, with erect branches 3-8 inches
high, leafy towards the apex, and with terminal corymbs, which are sessile amongst the leaves or pedunculate. Leaves
f - 3 inches long, of all forms between veiy narrow linear-lanceolate and obovate, acuminate or mucronate, one- to
three-nerved, glabrous, green above, white, with silvery appressed wool below. Corymbs of many (five to fifteen)
pedicellate heads; peduncle and pedicels wooUy. Eead,s | inch broad, with spreading, linear, rather sharp, white
involucral scales, which are rarely blunt and scarious, torn at the margin.
§ c. Heads corymbose or combined into a dense spherical mass. Involucral scales erect or conniviny, hyaline,
neither white nor forming a ray.
G. Gnaphalium luteo-album, L . ; dense lanatum, erectum, caule basi diviso, ramis simplicibus laxe
foliosis, fobis linearibus lineari-lanceolatisve utrinque lanatis, capitulis corymbosis, involucri squamis fuscis
v. llavesceiitibus. Linn. Sp. PI. LC. Prodr., etc. G. candidum, R a n h et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
H.ab. Very abundant throughout the Islands, Ranks and Solander, etc.
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Tills plant is found in warm and low temperate latitudes all over the world, and occurs in the Soutli of England,
though perhaps introduced there. It may rcadüy be recognized by its being covered with soft white wool—
Stems a span to 2 feet high, branching below, simple above, leafy throughout. Leaves, radical and caidine similar
to one another, linear-lanceolate or spathulate, uniformly wooRy on both sides, blunt, often with a point.
Corymbs woolly, of many heads, clustered into six or eight globose masses, which have no bracteæ or leaves mixed
with them. Involucre broadly campanulate, ^ inch long ; scales numerous, liuear-oblong, hyaline, shining, pale
yeUow-brown ; the inner narrower, Floi-ets very numerous. Beceptacle broad, convex, papillose. Achenia oblong-
obovate, smooth, grooved when dry.
7. Gnaphalium involucratum, Forst. ; caule simplici v. e basi ramosissimo, ramis strictis erectis foliatis
simplicibus V. proliferis divisisque cano-tomentosis lanatisve, foliis radicalibus paucis omnibus anguste
lineari-ligidatis lanceolatis spathulatisve acuminatis muoronatisve planis v. crispatis marginibus iutegerrimis
sæpe recurvis supremis angustioribus subtus niveo-tomentosis superne glabratis, capitulis terminalibus v.
ramulis brevissimis axillaribus densissime in glomerulos congestis foliis lineari-elongatis bracteatis, involucri
paucifiori anguste oblongi squamis lineari-subulatis nitidis brunneis pallidisve conniveutibus. Forst. Prodr.
A. Rich. Flora. A. Cmm. Frodr. LC. Prodr. etc. G. sphæricum, Hort. (Herb. Hook.) G. lanatum, Forst.
et G, Canningliamii, LC .fld . Herb. Mus. Brit., Heward, et DC. Prodr.
H a b . Throughout the Islands; very abundant. Banks and Solander. (Cultivated iu England.)
A very common and variable plant, easily recognized in its ordinaiy state by the dense round balls of capitida,
surrounded at the base by spreading or deilexed. linear, leafy bracteæ. Stems woody and generaUy much branched
below, annual; branches erect. 1-2 feet high, simple, divided, or proliferous, bearing short leafy ramuli in the axils
of the leaves, always more or less w'oolly. Leaves numerous, radical and on the stem, uniform throughout the plant,
but the upper narrower, all petiolate, narrow, Rnear, Rnear-lanceolate or spathulate, 1-4 inches long, sharp ; the
margins plane or recurved, and often crisped, beneath white with appressed tomentum, smooth above. Capitula
crowded into globose masses | - 1 i inch in diameter, which are terminal on leafless short or elongated tops of the
branches, or sessile amongst the leaves. Involucres very numerous, narrow ; scales cotmiving, linear, very narrow,
scarious, the outer shorter, broader, all usually brown towards the tips, rarely pale yellow-brown throughout, never
spreading after the florets have fallen away so as to e.xpose the receptacle, which is very narrow. Florets few, about
twelve ; achenia papillose or pubescent.—This fine plant is also abundant iu Australia and Tasmania.
S. Gnajilialium viryatum, Banks et Sol. ; caule e basi ramoso, ramis strictis erectis gracRibus simpliei-
bus proliferis ramosisve ubique cano-tomentosis, foliis anguste liueari-clongatis lanceolatisve acuminatis
superne glabratis subtus dense appresse niveo-tomentosis, capitulis in glomerulos bracteatos sessiles axil-
lares terminalesque densissime congestis, involucri paucifiori anguste oblongi squamis linearibus brunneis
comiiveutibus. Banks et Sol. ÎISS. G. involucratum, /3. ramosum? LC. Prodr.
I I a b . Northern Island. East coast. Banks aud Solander. Bay of Islauds, at Wycari mission station,
I . D. I I
Very closely allied to the former, but distinguished by Banks and Solander and also by Sieber, in whose New
Holland collection it is (no. 843), It chiefly diifers from G. involucratum in the smaller size aud slender habit,
very narrow leaves, smaRer, more numerous globose beads of capitula, which are axillary on the branches as well
as terminal, and have shorter, narrower bracteæ. Though I have no variety of G. involucratum from Australia or
New Zealand quite like this, I expect these two species will eventually prove varieties of one anotlier.
0. Gnaplmlium eoUiuum, Lab. ; caule e basi ramoso v. simplici, ramis simplicibus erectis gracilibus
molliter lanatis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis obovato-spathulatis obloiigo-hanceolatisve obtusis apiculatis
acutisve superne glaberrimis araneosisve subtus dense niveo-tomentosis lanatisve caulinis angustioribus