SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnaphalium.4I9 



G. minimum. Fl. Br. 8/3. E7igl. Bot. v. 1 7. t. 1157. Willd. Sp. 



PLv.3.\896. Hook. Scot. 2 A\. Relh.324. RauSy}i.\8\. 



Lob. Jc. 481./. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 1. 159./. 

 G. montanum. Huds. 362. With.7\b. Hull v.]. 239. 

 G. minimum eiectum, in arenosis nascens. Moris, v. 3. 92. sect. 7. 



t.U.f.3. 

 Filago montana. Sibth. 262. Abbot 189 ; but not of Linn. 

 F. minor. Ger. Em. 641./. 



F. arvensis. Ehrh. Herb. 100 3 not of Linn. 

 Least Cudweed. Peiiv. H Brit. t.lS.f.W. 



In barren sandy and gravelly ground, common. 



Annual. July. 



Root small and slender. Herb all over sparingly, not densely, cot- 

 tony, of a greyish hue. Stems one or more, from 3 to 6 inches 

 highjVarious in direction and luxuriance, slender, branched, leafy. 

 Leaves scattered, numerous, small, sessile, lanceolate, flat, point- 

 ed, equally downy on both sides, from oue-fourth to one- third of 

 an inch long. Fl. 3 or more together, sessile, in small heads 

 or tufts, partly terminal, partly at the sides, or in the forks, of 

 the branches. Cal. ovate at the base, conical upwards j scales 

 lanceolate, convex, acute, green, downy, with narrow membra- 

 nous edges; inner ones entirely membranous. Florets yellow j 

 those of the disk from 4 to 8, tubular, 5 -cleft ; of the circumfe- 

 rence about as many, likewise tubular, extremely slender, mi- 

 nutely notched, with prominent stigmas. Seed perfect in both. 

 Down rough. Recept. extremely small, tuberculated, surround- 

 ed by the permanent half-spreading calyx. 



Linnaeus did not know this species. Hudson and others took it 

 for his Filago montana, a much larger and more woolly plant, 

 not found in Britain. Both are natives of Switzerland, and ap- 

 pear to be confounded by Haller under his Filago n. 155; though 

 the real F. montana, which is likewise a Gnaphalium, was what 

 he principally intended. Hence he finds fault with Lobel's 

 figure, as not well agreeing therewith, being in fact designed 

 for a difterent plant, of which Haller had no suspicion. 



1 0. G. germanicum. Common Cudweed. 



Stem erect, proliferous. Leaves lanceolate. Heads glo- 

 bose, many-flowered, lateral as well as terminal. Calyx- 

 scales bristle-pointed. 



G. germanicum. Huds. 362. Fl. Br. 874. Engl. Bot. v.\4. t. 946. 

 mild. Sp. PI. V. 3.1894. Hook. Scot. 241, Lond.t. 43. Relh. 

 324. Bauh. Hist. v.3.p.\.l 58. f. 



G. minus, seu Herba impia. Rail Syn. 180. 

 Gnaphalium. Fuchs. Hist. 222. f. /c. 126. / 

 G. vulgare. Matth. Falgr. v. 2.214. f. Camer.Epit.606.f.Lob. 

 Ic. 480./. Dalech. Hist. 1 1 15./. 

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