SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF.Gnaphalium. 411 



the circumference of the disk ; their corolla, if present, 

 slender, or awl-shaped, mostly undivided. Filam, 5, 

 capillary, short. Anth. in a cylindrical tube. Germ. 

 obovate, angular. Shjle thread-shaped, the length of the 

 floret. »S7?V???f/5 2, sprending, notched. Seed-vessel ncney 

 except the permanent shining calyx, variously coloured. 

 Seed obovate, small, alike, and usually perfect, in all the 

 florets. Down either sim})le, or variously feathery. Re- 

 cept. naked. 



Some ^{^w Jloreis, in the very centre of the disk, are occa- 

 sionally abortive. Antennaria of Gaertner has dioecious 

 Jlowers, and a diversity of feathery seed-down ; yet it is not 

 a natural genus. In Filago the Jlorets of the disk arc 

 described by Linnaeus as 4-cleft, with 4 stamens only ; 

 but this is rarely, if ever, the case. There are many 

 aberrations, as to the Jlorets being more or less perfect, in 

 different species, but nothing can be liable to more va- 

 riations than this circumstance. 



A vast genus, overburthened with species, among which 

 there is great diversity of habit, and the exotic ones, 

 chiefly African, undoubtedly require skilful investigation. 

 The roots are annual, or more generally perennial. 

 Herbage cottony. Stem herbaceous or shrubby, round, 

 leafy. Leaves simple, undivided, and entire. Ft. corym- 

 bose, or capitate; yellow in tlie disk. Calyx yellow, red, 

 white, brown, or blackish, never blue. 



* Calyx yellom. 



1. G. lulco albian. Jersey Cudweed. 



Herbaceous. Leaves half-clasping, linear-oblong, wavy, 

 woolly on both sides ; lower ones blunt. Flowers densely 

 tufted. 



G. lutco-album. Liun. Sp. PL 1 190. irutd. v. 3. IS7J . Fl. Br. 



HG7. En^l. Hot. V. II. /. lOO'J. Dicks. 11. Sice. fuse. "). 1;^ 



Khrh.Ilerb. IIS. 

 G. majus, lato oblongo folio. Bauh. Pin.3C)?>. Phik. Alm'ii:. 171 



Phyt.t.'M.fJ\. 

 G. Plateau secundum. Clus. Hist. v. 1 . 329./. 

 (i. oblonj^o folio. Crr. /Cm. (i 13./. 



Cr. ad Hta-chadem citrinam arcedcns. Bauli. Ilisi. r.3. p. I. \C)0.f 

 Fila^'o n. I 17. Hall. Ili.st. r. \ . G\. 

 Klirhrvsum sylvcstrc latifolium, rapitulis conglobatis. Bnii Si/n 



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