410SYNGENESIA-POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnaphalium. 



herbage, separated by rubbing, makes the Moxa of the Ja- 

 panese, a famous material for performing actual cautery in that 

 country. 



-fS. A c(Frulescens . Blueisb, or Lavender-leaved 

 Mugwort. 



Leaves hoary ; most of them lanceolate, undivided, tapering 

 at the base ; lower ones variously divided. Flowers erect, 

 cylindrical. Receptacle naked. 



A. cserulescens. Lm?i. 6>. PZ. 1 189. WiUd.v.ZA^AI , FLBr.86C}. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 34. t. 2426. Huds. 359. 



A. marina. Ger. Em. 1 104./. Lob. Ic. 765.f. Dalevh. Hist. 951./. 



Absinthium marinum. Matth. Valgr. v.2.49 f. Camer. Epit. 455, 

 456. f,f. 



A. maritimum lavendulae folio. Bauh. Pin. \39. Moris, v. 3.7. 

 sect.G.t.i.f.D. Duham. Arb. v.\. 24. t. 7. 



A. latifolium rarius, Artemisiag folio. Column. Ecphr. v. 2. 75. t. 76. 



A. angustifohum. Dod. Pempt. 26. f. 



On the sea coast ; a very doubtful native. 



Near Boston, Lincolnshire ; Mr.Tofield. Huds. No other person 

 has ever met with it, and the late Sir Joseph Banks repeatedly 

 searched the neighbourhood of Boston in vain. In the isle of 

 Wight. Gerarde. But it has not been found by recent botanists. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Plant rather shrubby, with round, slender, smooth, leafy branches, 

 downy when young. Leaves of a blueish hoary hue, finely silky 

 in an early state, especially beneath, all tapering at the base, 

 and somevvhat stalked ; many of them obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 entire J floral ones smaller, and more linear ; several about the 

 lower part of the stem three-cleft, or pinnatifid. Fl. ovate-ob- 

 long, small, mostly erect, in copious, aggregate, leafy dusters or 

 spikes. Recepi. naked, small. Frcm garden and exotic speci- 

 mens. 



394. GNAPHALIUxM. Cudweed. 



Linn. Gen. 4\9. Jim. 179. FLBr.867. 



Elichrysum. Tourn. t. 259. Lam. t. 693. Gccrtn. 1. 166. 



Antennaria. Gcertn. t.\67 . 



Filago. Linn. Gen. 450. Juss. 179. Tourn. t. 259. Gcertn. 1. 1 66. 



Nat. Ord. Covipositce, ^, nucamentacece, Linn. 49. Corym- 

 hifercJB, sect. 1. Juss. 55. 



Common Cat. roundish, imbricated ; scales filmy, coloured, 

 converging. Cor, compound ; florets of the disk perfect, 

 tubular, their limb 5-cleft ; some destitute of stamens, 

 often of corolla also, either marginal or interspersed in 



