412SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnaphaliiim. 



the circumference of the disk ; their corolla, if pi-esent, 

 slender, or awl-shaped, mostly undivided. Filam. 5, 

 capillary, short. Anth. in a cylindrical tube. Germ. 

 obovate, angular. Style thread-shaped, the length of the 

 floret. Stigmas 2, spreading, notched. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the permanent shining calyx, variously coloured. 

 Seed obovate, small, alike, and usually perfect, in all the 

 florets. Do'wn either simple, or variously feathery. Re- 

 cept. naked. 



Some iew Jtorets, in the very centre of the disk, are occa- 

 sionally abortive. Anteiinaria of Gsertner has dioecious 

 Jionsoers., and a diversity of feathery .^^erf-^/oww / yet it is not 

 a natural genus. In Filago the Jlorets of the disk are 

 described by Linnaeus as 4-cleft, with 4 stamens only ; 

 but this is rarely, if ever, the case. There are many 

 aberrations, as to the Jlorets being more or less perfect, in 

 different species, but nothing can be liable to more va- 

 riations than this circumstance. 



A vast genus, overburthened with species, among which 

 there is great diversity of habit, and the exotic ones, 

 chiefly African, undoubtedly require skilful investigation. 

 The roots are annual, or more generally perennial. 

 Herbage cottony. Stem herbaceous or shrubby, round, 

 leafy. Leaves simple, undivided, and entire. FL corym- 

 bose, or capitate; yellow in the disk. Ca/j/cT yellow, red, 

 white, brown, or blackish, never blue. 



* Calyx yellonso. 



1. G. luteo-album. Jersey Cudweed. 



Herbaceous. Leaves half-clasping, linear-oblong, wavy, 

 woolly on both sides ; lower ones blunt. Flowers densely 

 tufted. 



G. luteo-album. Unn. Sp. PI. 1 1 96. fVilld. v. 3. 187 1 . Fl. Br. 



867. Engl. Bot. v. 14.^.1002. Dich. U. Sice. fasc. 5. 13. 



Ehrh. Herb. 118. 

 G. majus, lato oblongo folio. Bauh. Pin. 363. Pluk. Almag. 171 . 



Phijt.t.3\.f.6. 

 G. Plateau secundum. Clus. Hist. v. 1.329./. 

 G. oblongo folio. Ger. Em. 643./. 



G. ad Stcechadem citrinam accedens. Bank. Hist. v. 3. /). 1 . 1 60. /. 

 Filago n. 147. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 64. 

 Eiichivsum svlvcstrc latifolium, capitulis conglobatis. Raii Sijn. 



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