414 SYNGENESIA—POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 



sily rubbed off. Fl. numerous, corymbose, on cottony stalks, 

 terminating the stem and branches. CaL of a most pure, ra- 

 ther opaque, paper-lilie white, globose before it expands giving 

 an elegant pearly aspect to the ample panicles, and remaining 

 unchanged after gathering. Hence these floivers serve to de- 

 corate chimney-pieces in winter, especially in the country. In 

 South Wales, where the plant, though reckoned of American 

 origin, is to all appearance wild, they afford " Amaranthine 

 wreaths" for the graves of the departed. The perfect j^ore/s of 

 the disk are numerous ; the half-ligulate ones of the circumfe- 

 rence very few. Seed-down obtuse, rough. Recept. tuberculated. 



3. G. dioictwi. Mountain Cudweed. 



Shoots procumbent. Stem unbranched. Corymb simple, 

 terminal. Flowers dioecious. Seed-down feather}', va- 

 rious. 



G. dioicum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 199. mild. v. 3. 1882. Fl. Br. 8G9. 

 Engl. Bot.v.4.t.267. Lightf.470.t.20.f. I. Hook. Scot.240. 

 FL Dan. t. 1 228. BulL Fr. t. 325. 



G. montanum album. Raii Syn. 181. 



G. longiore folio et flore. Dill, in Raii Syn. 182. Bauh. Pin. 263. 



G. montanum purpureum et album. Ger, Em. G40. f. Lub. Ic. 

 482,483./,/. 



Filago n. 157. HalL HisL v.]. 67. 



Elichrysum montanum, longiore et folio, et flore purpureo. Garid. 

 Prov.\57.t. 30. 



Lagopus. T?ag. Hist. 332. f. 



Pilosella minor. Dod. Pempt 68./. Fiichs. Hist. 606. f. 7c. 347./. 

 Dalech.HisL\098.f. 



Antennaria dioica. Gcertn. v. 2. 4 10. t. 1 67. 



Cat's-foot. Petiv. H. Brit. L\8.f.A. 



In dry mountainous or heathy pastures. 



On Newmarket heath; and on Stratton Strawless heath near Nor- 

 wich. Frequent in the mountainous counties. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Roots with many long simple fibres. Stems solitary, simple, up- 

 right, generally from 4 to 6 inches high, cottony, leafy, accom- 

 panied at the base by several prostrate leafy runners, by which 

 the plant is increased. Leaves scattered ; obovate on the run- 

 ners ; lanceolate on the stems ; green, smooth and naked above ; 

 very white and cottony beneath. FL 4 or 5, terminal, erect, 

 simply corymbose, white, with more or less of a rose-coloured 

 tint, everlasting, and very elegant ; those on one root most per- 

 fect in their anthers, on another in their pistils, so that the plant 

 is incompletely dioecious ; but this varies, and the seeds of the 

 latter kind are often abortive, as in most vegetables that increase 

 much by root. The calyx-scales have a membranous termina- 

 tion, either rounded or acute. Seed-doivn partly rough, partly 



