SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 417 



G. alpinum. Light/. 470. t. 20./. 2. Fl. Dan. t. 332. 



G. fuscum. Scop. Carn.v. 2. 152. t. 57. 



G. alpinum nanum, seu pumilum. Bocc, Sic. 40. t. 20./. 1. Sin. 

 Tour on the Continent, ed. 2. v. 3. 101. 



Filagon. 149. Hall. Hist. v. I. 65. 



Elichrysum alpinum minimum, capillaceo folio. Town. Inst. 454 ; 

 according to his herbarium. 



On the micaceous summits of the Highland mountains. 



Near the top of Ben Lomond, plentifully, 1782. 



Perennial. July. 



Root slender, creeping, black. Stems from 2 to 4 inches long, 

 very slender, quite simple, cottony, sparingly leafy, seldom 

 quite erect, and often nearly prostrate; sometimes bearing only 

 one solitary terminal /ower ; but most usually ending in a sim- 

 ple, lax cluster, of from 3 to 5 or 6 flowers, whose stalks are 

 clothed with an abundant lax cottony web. Leaves very nar- 

 row, almost linear, an inch or two long, finely cottony on both 

 sides ; crowded about the root ; scattered on the stem. Cal. 

 rather ovate than cylindrical, generally spreading even while in 

 flower, smooth ; its scales brown, of a narrower and more acute 

 form than either of the preceding, from which this species may, 

 I think, by that mark be known, while the conspicuous partial 

 stalks of the flowers, often considerably elongated, afford a good 

 scientific distinction. There are indeed dwarf alpine states of 

 G. sylvaticum, which approach the supinum, one of which is G. 

 supinum lavendula fuUo , Bocc. Mas. 107- t. 85 ; but the dense 

 tufted sessile^o«;ers indicate the true sylvaticum. The recepta- 

 cle of all these species is alike, slightly cellular. Seed-down rough . 

 Marginal florets of the present less ligulate than in the others, 

 and unequally notched. See Engl. Bot. t. 1 1 93, and Ft. Br. 



7. G. uliginosimi. Marsh Cudweed. 



Stem much branched, spreading. Leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, cottony on both sides. Flowers in dense terminal 

 tufts. 



G. uliginosum. Linn. Sp. Fl. V2m. ?n/W. r. 3. 1891. Fl. Br. 

 872. Engl. Bot. v.\7.t.\\9A. Hook. Scot. 241. Fl. Dan. 1.859. 

 Ehrh. Herb. 99. 



G. longifolium humile ramosum, capitulis nigris. Rail Syn. 181. 



G. vulgare. Ger. Em. 639./. 



G. medium. Bank. Pin. 263; according to his herbarium. Haller. 



G. annuum serotinum capitulis nigricantibus. in humidis gaudens. 

 Moris. V. 3. 92. sect. 7. t.ll.f. 14. 



Filago n. 1 5 1 . Hall. Hist. v.\.65. 



F. minor. Dod. Pempt. 66. f. Lob. Ic. 481./. 



Long Cudweed. Petiv. H. Brit. 1. 1 8./ 7. 



In sandy watery places, or where water lias stood (hiring winter, 

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