SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 413 



Helichiysum seu Chiysocome annua sylvestris, capitulis minori- 



bus conglobatis. Moris, v. 3. 88. sect. 7- t. \] ./. 

 Chrysocome citrina supina latifolia italica. Barrel. Ic. t. 367. 

 Jersey Live-long. Fetiv.H. Br'd.t. \8.f.5. 



In dry sandy ground, in the south. 



On dry banks and walls in Jersey, very common. Sherard. Be- 

 tween Hanxtown and Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, indubita- 

 bly wild. Rev. R. Relhan. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root small and slender. Herb entirely covered with white cot- 

 tony down. Stems generally several, from 3 to 12 inches high, 

 unbranched, leafy j recumbent at the bottom ; then upright. 

 Leaves numerous, alternate, sessile, clasping the stem with 

 their dilated base, oblong, undulated ; the lower ones obovate 

 at the extremity ; upper acute. Fl. in crowded heads, on co- 

 rymbose stalks. Cal. of a delicate, shining, pale yellow. Mar- 

 ginal florets often reddish, as are sometimes the few which com- 

 pose the disk, Recept. tuberculated. Seeds fertile in all the 

 florets. Down rough. 



These flowers are of the kind termed Everlasting, but scarcely con- 

 spicuous enough to make a figure in winter nosegays, or to find 

 a place in the flower-garden. 



** Calyx voliite or reddish. 



2. G. margaritaceum. American Cudweed. Pearly 



Everlasting. 



Herbaceous. Leaves linear- lanceolate, sharp-pointed, al- 

 ternate ; loosely cottony on the upper side ; densely un- 

 derneath. Stem branched in the upper part. Panicles 

 corj-mbose, level-topped. 



G. margaritaceum. Lww. Sp. P/. 1 198. Wl/W. ?;. 3. 1 88 1 . Fl. 



Br. 868. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2018. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 8. 15. 

 G. aniericanum. Raii Syn. 182. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 1. 162./. 



Cliis. Hist.v. I. 327./. 

 Filago n. 146. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 64. 

 American Live-long. Petiv. H. Brit, t. 18./. 3. 



In moist meadows, rare. 



Plentifully near Docking, Essex, Mr. Dale ; but perhaps not wild. 

 Ray. On the banks of Rymny river. South Wales, for at least 

 twelve miles ; Mr. Lhwyd. Dillenius. By a rivulet in the heart 

 of Wire forest, Worcestershire. Rev. T. Butt. At Longdon, 

 near Litchfield. Dr. Salt. 



Perennial. August. 



Root somewhat creeping. Stems erect, 2 feet high, copiously leafy, 

 solid, densely cottony ; as is the under side of the leaves ; while 

 the upper is green, even, covered with a thin web of cotton ea- 



