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A veiy handsome plant, 2 -3 feet long, with the woody, prostrate, lower part of the stem sometimes a foot
long, and as thick as a swan’s-qiiill. Branches ascending, 2 feet high, grooved and covered with silky pubescence,
leafy. Leaves 2 -4 inches long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, shai-p-pointed, one- or three-nerved, glabrous above,
densely covered below with wliite appressed silky wool. Corymis of twelve to twenty white heads, i inch in diameter,
on woolly peduncles.—Closely allied to 6 . trinerve, but a very much larger plant, with longer leaves and
many-headed corymbs, wbich terminate the branches and are not pedunculate.
4 . Gnaphalium trinerve, E o rs t.; caule elongato prostrato parce ramoso folioso apice sericeo in peclnn-
culum lanatum bracteatum eorymbiferum abeunte, foliis patulis ( l - J unc.) obovato-spathulatis lanceolatisve
acuminatis mucronatis enerviis v. 3-nervüs superne subsericeis glabratisve subtus argenteo-lanatis, corymbis
oligocepbalis, capitulis 8 - 6 longe pedicellatis, involucri squamis interioribus multiseriatis longe radiantibus,
receptáculo lato convexo. Forst. Prodr. A . Eich. Flora. A . Cunn. Frodr.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. Du sk y Bay, Forster; Milford Sound, L y a ll; foot o f tile Eu a -
liiue range, Colenso.
A beautiful and very distinct species, with prostrate, sparingly branched stems, 2 feet long, loosely covered
along theii' whole length with spreading leaves; the branches silky and woolly, terminating in loosely bracteated
woolly peduncles, 4 -1 0 inches long, which bear a corymb of a few large heads. Leaves i - J inch long, obovate-
spathulate, obscm-ely three-nerved or neiweless, abruptly acummate, with a sharp muero, glabrous, sparingly silky
above, densely clothed below with silveiy pubescence. Corymls of three to six heads, on woolly pedicels. Heads as
large as in (?. Lyallii and similar to them.—The specimen figured in Forster’s collection of drawings has a more
robust stem and larger leaves than Dr. Lyall’s. The three nerves are often very indistinct.
5. Gnaphalium Keriense, A. C u n n .; caule basi decumbente ramoso brevi v. elongato, ramis ascendentibus
V. erectis lanatis apice abbreviatis v. elongatis corymbiferis, folus anguste lineari-lanceolatis oblongo-
obovatisve acuminatis v. obtusis e t mucronatis 1 -3 -n erv iis supra glabratis subtus dense niveo-tomentosis,
corymbis polycephalis tomentosis, capitulis parvis, involucri squamis omnibus albidis longe radiantibus,
receptáculo convexo latiusculo. Heliclirysum micranthum, A . Cmm. in I)C. Prodr. G. dealbatum, Forst.
P ro d r.?
Var. /3. lin ifo lia ; foliis angustissime lineari-lanceolatis.
Var. 7 . macroleima; involucri squamis latioribus lacero-dentatis.
Var. 7 . sp a th u la ta ; foliis spathulatis, corymbis pedunculatis.
H a b . A b u n d an t in tb e N o rth e rn and Middle Islands, in various localities, Forster, Frazer, Cmmimj-
ham, etc.
A rather variable plant in habit, size, and form of the leaves, easily recognized by the small heads from any of
the preceding. Stans sleuder, branching, naked below, and rather woody, prostrate, with erect branches 8-8 inclies
high, leafy towards the apex, and with terminal corymbs, which are sessile amongst the leaves or pedunculate. Leaves
f -2 inches long, of all forms between veiy narrow linear-lanceolate and obovate, acuminate or mucronato, one- to
Ihree-nerved, glabrous, green above, white, witb silvery appressed wool below. Corymts of many (five to fifteen)
pedicellate heads ; peduncle and pedicels woolly. Heads i 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 conniving, hyaline,
neither white nor forming a ray.
6. Gnaphalium luteo-allmm, L . ; dense lanatum, erectum, caule basi diviso, ramis simplicibus laxe
foliosis, foliis linearibus lineari-laneeolatisve u trin q u e lanatis, capitulis corymbosis, involucri squamis fuscis
V , flavesceutibus. L in n . Sp. P I. DC. Prodr., etc. G. candidum, Fanhs et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
H a b . Very abundant th ro u g h o u t th e Islands, B a n k s a n d Solander, etc.
This plant is found in warm and low temperate latitudes all over the world, and occurs in the Soutli of England,
though perhaps introduced there. I t may readily 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 cauline similar
to one another, linear-lanceolate or spathulate, uniformly wooUy 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, 4 inch long; scales numerous, linear-oblong, hyaline, shining, pale
yellow-brown ; the inner narrower. Florets very numerous. B.eceptacle broad, convex, papillose. Achenia oblong-
obovate, smooth, grooved when dry.
7 . Gnaphalium involucratum, E o rs t.; caule simplici v. e basi ramosissimo, ramis strictis erectis foliatis
simplicibus V. proMferis divisisque cano-tomentosis lanatisve, foliis radicalibus paucis omnibus anguste
lineari-ligulatis lanceolatis spathulatisve acuminatis mucronatisve planis v. crispatis marginibus integerrimis
sæpe recnrvis supremis angustioribus subtus niveo-tomentosis superne glabratis, capitulis terminalibus v.
ramulis brevissimis axillaribus densissime in glomerulos congestis foliis lineari-elongatis bracteatis, involucri
pauciflori anguste oblongi squamis lineari-subulatis nitidis brunneis pallidisvo conniventibus. Forst. Frodr.
A . Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Proclr. BC . Prodr. etc. G. sphæricum, Hort. {Herb. Hook.) G. lanatum, Forst.
et G. Cunninghamii, B C .f id . Herb. Mus. B r it., Heward, et BC. Prodr.
H ab. T h ro u g h o u t th e Islands ; ve ry ahmiAant, B a n k s a n d Solander. (Cultivated in England.)
A very common and variable plant, easily recognized iu its ordinary state by the dense round balls of capitula,
surrounded at the base by spreading or defiexed, linear, leafy bracteæ. Stems woody aud generaUy much branched
below, animal; 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, linear, hnear-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 i -1 i inch iu diameter, which are terminal on leafiess short or elongated tops of the
branches, or sessile amongst the leaves. Involucres very numerous, narrow ; scales coimivmg, linear, very narrow,
scarious, the outer shorter, broader, all usually brown towards the tips, rarely pale yellow-brown throughout, never
spreading after the fiorets have fallen away so as to expose the receptacle, which is very narrow. Florets few, about
twelve ; achenia papillose or pubescent.—This fine plant is also abundant in Australia and Tasmania.
8. Gnajibalium virgatum. Banks e t Sol. ; caule e basi ramoso, ramis strictis erectis gracilibus simplicibus
proliferis ramosisve ubique cano-tomentosis, foliis anguste lineari-elongatis lanceolatisve acuminatis
snpenie glabratis subtus dense appresse niveo-tomentosis, capitulis in glomerulos bracteatos sessiles exiliares
terminalesqne densissime congestis, involucri pauciflori anguste oblongi squamis bnearibus brunneis
conniventibus. B a n k s et Sol. MS S . G. involucratum, ¡3. ramosum ? BC . Prodr.
H a b , N o rth ern Islan d . E a st coast. B a n k s a n d Solander. Bay of Islands, a t Wycari mission station,
J . D. H.
A’ery closely allied to tlie former, but distinguished by Banks and Solander and also by Sieber, in whose New
Holland collection it is (no. 343). I t chiefly differs from O. involucratum iu the smaller size and slender habit,
very narrow leaves, smaller, more numerous globose beads of capitida, wliich are axillary 011 tbe branches as well
as terminal, and have shorter, narrower bracteæ. Though I have no variety of C. involucratum from Australia or
New Zealand quite like this, I expect these two species will eventually prove varieties of one another.
9. Gnaphalium coUimm, L a b .; caule e basi ramoso v. simplici, ramis simplicibus erectis gracilibus
molliter lanatis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis obovato-spatliulatis oblongo-lanceolatisve obtusis apiculatis
acutisve superne glaberrimis araueosisve subtus dense niveo-tomentosis lanatisve caulinis angustioribus