This genus is <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">chiefly</add> confined to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890">north america</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />But there are <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">two or three</del> <add place="intralinear">a few</add> </subst> species, formerly numbered <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />under this genus, but now made into separate genera, that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are found in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010383">southern hemisphere</placeName>. Two species also <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />still retained in <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Leucodon</name>, but very dissimilar to it in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />appearance are also found, the one in <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008229 https://www.geonames.org/3932488">Peru</placeName></hi> ? (<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>v.</abbr> <expan>vide</expan> </choice> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Leucad.</abbr> <expan>Leucodon</expan> </choice> Tomen<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />tosus</name> <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d2d99702-c229-49a2-9997-02c22929a26c" corresp="#df7590cb-3465-41f2-b590-cb3465d1f25b" type="editorialNote"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/F35ISNB4"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700"><choice> <abbr>Humb<hi rendition="#sup">t</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Humboldt</expan> </choice></persName> & <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001517 http://d-nb.info/gnd/115674667">Kunth</persName>. Synopsis</bibl></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="df7590cb-3465-41f2-b590-cb3465d1f25b" corresp="#d2d99702-c229-49a2-9997-02c22929a26c" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/F35ISNB4">Kunth 1822–1825</bibl>, I, 53.</note>), the other in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">New Holland</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>L.</abbr> <expan>Leucodon</expan> </choice> canariensis</name>, now an <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Astradontium</name> is found both in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009313 https://www.geonames.org/2510529">Teneriffe</placeName> & the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010458 https://www.geonames.org/935316">isle de Bourbon</placeName>.