418SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnaphalium. 



Annual. August. 



Root tapering, slender. Stems 4 or 5 inches long, generally nu- 

 merous, branched, spreading or recumbent in every direction, 

 many-flowered, densely cottony, leafy, sometimes single, with 

 many small axillary branches. Leaves linear-lanceolate, on both 

 sides much less cottony, alternate, spreading, tapering very gra- 

 dually at the base. Fl. in dense, terminal, leafy tufts, small, Cal. 

 ovate, of a shining yellowish brown, smooth. Florets yellow, 

 all fertile. Seed-down rough. Recept. reticulated. The whole 

 herb is remarkably tender, and when handled seems to hold to- 

 gether chiefly by its cottony covering. 



8. G. gaUiciim. Narrow-leaved Cudweed. 



Stem erect, branched. Leaves linear, revolute, acute. Flow- 

 ers awl-shaped, axillary, tufted. 



G.gallicum. HMds.36I. FLBr.872. Engl.Bot.v. 33. t.2369. 



Willd. Sp. PL V. 3. 1 895. Hook. Scot. 24 1 . Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 



11. 10. 

 G. parvum ramosissimum, foliis angustissimis, polyspermon. Raii 



Syn.]S\. Pluk. Pliyt.t. 298. f. 2. 

 G. minimum alterum nostras, Stoechadis citrinse foliis tenuissimis. 



Pluk.Almag. 172. 

 Filago gallica. Linn. Sp. PL ]3l 2. 

 F. n. 156. HalLHisLvA.67. 

 Grass Cudweed. Petiv. H. BriL 1. 18./. 12, 



In gravelly corn fields, but very rare. 



Among corn, in sandy grounds, about Castle Heveningham, Essex, 

 plentifully ; Mr. Dale, Ray. On heaths in Derbyshire j Mr, 

 Woodward. Withering. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root small, tapering. Stems one or more, a span high, erect, 

 leafy, cottony ; simple below ; forked and subdivided in the 

 upper part. Leaves scattered, nearly upright, an inch long, very 

 narrow, acute, covered on both sides with thin, close, cottony, 

 down. H. small, aggregate, sessile, forming round tufts at the 

 forks of the stem, or in the bosoms of the leaves, Cal. ovate at 

 the base, tapering upwards to a point ; scales lanceolate, acute, 

 green and downy, with a white, filmy border. Florets of the 

 disk about 3, tubular and 5-cleft ; of the circumference more 

 numerous, very slender, but much the same in shape ; all fer- 

 tile. Seed-down rough, Recept. small, convex, granulated, re- 

 maining exposed after the seeds are gone, the calyx spreading 

 and permanent. 



9. G. minimum. Least Cudweed. 



Stem erect, branched. Leaves lanceolate, acute, flat. Flow- 

 ers conical, in lateral and terminal tufts. 



