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P L A T E CCCCLXXXIX.
GNAPHALIUM GR A N D I F L O RU M.
Large-Jio-wered Gnaphalium.
CLASS XIX. ORDER II.
SYNGENESIA FOLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous
Polygamy.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULUM nudum. Pappus pilosus, vel
plumosus. Ca)yx imbricatus, radiatus, radio
colorato.
RECEPTACLE naked. Down hairy, or feathery.
Empalement imbricated, rayed, with the
ray coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
GNAPHALIUM grandiflorum : floribus paniculatis,
albis, lucidis : pedunculis albis, lanatis
: foliis ovato-acutis, alba lanâ tectis.
GNAPHALIUM witli large flowers: flowers grow
in panicles, white, and shining: footstalks
white, and woolly : leaves are ovate-pointed,
and covered with a white wool.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A scale of the empalement..
1 . The same shown from the under side.
3 . A flower complete.
4 . The same magnified.
5. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal magnified.
6. Seed-bud and pointal.
7 . The same magaified.
THIS Gnaphalium is at present the largest flowering species (the G. eximium excepted). lis flowers are
equally durable with those of any Xeranthemum, nor does it vary essentially in any particular from that
genus (as a section of which it would have been much better understood). The genus Elychrisum
we find, upon examination, to be built upon the same equivocal ground, and tliere is hltie doubt but
at some future period those two superfluous genera will fall into the old Linna;an genus of Xeranthemum.
Our figure was made from a fine plant in the Clapham collection, about a foot and a half
high. We have seen it grow much taller, but it is not then so handsome. It is certainly not a new
pkint, but has not been as yet figured in any modem publication. The whiteness so prevalent in its
flowers and leaves (by way of contrast to the green foliage of most other plants) would render it
deserving a place in every collection, even if its long-lived shining flowers were not a sufficient recommendation.
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