41(JSYNGENESIA-POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnaphalium. 



but the upper surface of the leaves continues equally covered 

 with cottony down ; the calijx remains blacker, and the Jlorets 

 more dusky than in G. rectum. I concur therefore v;ith the most 

 eminent practical botanists, who have kept them distinct. In a 

 wild state, though the stem of G. sylvaticum is often drawn up, 

 to above the height of a foot, among bushes, the spike remains as 

 compact, and nearly as short, as in the most exposed situations. 



5. G. rectum. Upright Wood Cudweed. 



Stem erect, panicled, many-flowered, leafy. Leaves li- 

 near-lanceolate, naked on the upper side; silky beneath. 



G. rectum. Fl. Br. 870. E^igL Bot. v. 2. t. 124. WiUd. Sp. PL 

 V. 3. 1885. FL Dan. t. 1229. Bauh. Hlst.v.Z.jy. 1. 160./. Ber- 

 tolon. Am. Ital. 40G. 



G, sylvaticum. Hucls.oGO. Hook. Scot. 340 ^. Retz. Prodr. 193. 

 Ehrh. Herb. 50. WahLenh. Lapp. 203 a. 



G. anglicum. Rail Syn. 180. Ger. Em. 639./. 



G. anglicum vel belgicum, folio longiore. Lob. Ic, 482./ 



Filago n. 148. Hall. Hist. v.\.65. 



Pseudoleontopodium. Matth. Falgr. v. 2. 535./. Dalech. Hist. 

 1344./ 



Rhurkraut. Trag. Hist. 33 1 j tallest/. 



English Live-long. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 18./ 6. 



In groves, thickets and pastures, where the soil is light and sandy, 

 or gravelly J rarely in corn fields. 



Perennial. August. 



This may be known from the last by its many-flowered, panicled, 

 generally much taller, stem, but more certainly by the naked 

 and very smooth upper side of its leaves, and their silvery under 

 surface. The calyx, though brown, has a blush-coloured rather 

 than black hue, and \\\z florets are of a brighter yellow, though 

 in structure like those of G. sylvaticum. In general G. rectum 

 is 1^ or 2 feet high, copiously branched, with abundance of not 

 inelegant//o«,erA',- though I have dwarf specimens from the Ha- 

 fod woods, Cardiganshire, not a foot in height, with the injlo- 

 rescence as little branched as in G. sylvaticum. But the Jlowers 

 are dispersed among the foliage, having their proper reddish 

 hue, and the upper surface of the leaves is smooth and naked, 

 while their backs, like the stem, are beautifully silvery. These 

 specimens, accurately observed, cannot but remove all doubt, 



G. G. suphmm. Dwarf Alpine Cudweed. 



Stem recumbent, quite simple, with a simple cluster of very 



few flowers. Leaves linear-lanceolate, somewhat cottony 



on both sides. 

 G. supinum. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed.\2.v.3. 234. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 



1888. Fl. Br. 871. Engl. Bot. v. 17. t. 1 193. Hook. Scot. 240. 



Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 2. 1 7. Wahlenb. Lapp. 202. 



