420 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-SUPERF. Conyza. 



G, annuum vulgare, capitulis rotundis sessilibus ad angulos flori- 



dum. Moris, v. 3. 92. sect. 7. t.M ./. 1 0. 

 Filago germanica. Linn. Sp. PL ]3l I. Sibth. 262. Abbot 1 89. 



FL Dan. t. 997. 

 F. n. 153. Hall. Hist. v.\. 66. 



F. sive Herba impia. Ger. Em. 6A2.f. Dod. Pempt. 66./. 

 Rhurkraut. Trag. Hist. 33) ; lowest/. 

 Childing Cudweed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 18./. 9, 10. 



In pastures, fields, and waste ground, on a barren gravelly soil, 

 common. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root small, tapering, tough, mostly crooked. Stems one or more, 

 from 6 to 1 8 inches high, upright, straight, copiously leafy, flow- 

 ering at the top, and sending forth, from below the head of flow- 

 ers, two or more ascending branches, in like manner generally re- 

 peatedly proliferous ; so that as the children rise above their 

 parents, the name of Herba impia was sagely bestowed on the 

 innocent and unconscious plant. Tlie whole hei'b is grey and 

 cottony. Leaves very numerous, regularly scattered over the 

 stem and branches, erect, lanceolate, acute, wavy, equally woolly 

 on both sides ; clasping at the base. FL cylindrical, many to- 

 gether, in solitary, globular, dense, sessile heads, terminating 

 the stem, as well as each branch in its turn. Calyx-scales smooth, 

 lanceolate, bristle-pointed, flat, the outer ones with each a strong 

 mid-rib, and a membranous margin. Florets yeWow ; those of 

 the disk very few, regular, 5-cleft ; of the circumference nume- 

 rous, more or less ligulate ; both kinds producing perfect seed, 

 whose down is rough, Recept. small, tuberculated, surrounded 

 by the spreading calyx, which, when old, turns of a reddish 

 brown. 



395. CONYZA. Spikenard. 



Linn. Gen. 422. Juss. \ 80. Fl.Br.875. Tourn.t.259. Lam. 

 t.697. Gcertn. t. 166. 



Nat. Ord. Composit<^,y,discoide£e. lu'mn. 49. Corymhifene^ 

 sect. 1. Juss. B5. 



Common Col. imbricated, ovate ; scales acute, rigid, with 

 spreading prominent points, especially the outer ones. 

 Cor. compound ; j?or^^5 tubular; those of the disk nvi- 

 merous, funnel-shaped, with 5 equal segments, perfect, 

 all fertile; of the circumference cylindrical, slender, with 

 an oblique, short, ligulate, 3-cleft limb, no stamens, only 

 a pistil, which is fertile. Filam. 5, capillary, very short. 

 Anth. in a cylindrical tube. Germ, in all the florets ob- 

 long. Style thread-shaped, the length of the corolla. 

 Stigmas 2, spreading, more slender in the marginal flo- 



