1. Not the best sentences I read this week, but certainly the most mysterious. Re: the genus Helichrysum:

Their leaves are oblong to lanceolate. They are flat and pubescent on both sides. The bristles of the pappus are scabrous, barbellate, or plumose.

Well, yes, clearly!

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