SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaplmlium. 413 



the upper is green, even, covered with a thin web of cotton ea- 

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

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

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

 an elegant pearly aspect to the ample panicles, and remaining 

 unchanged after gathering. Hence these ^ou;er5 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 ^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. dioicmn. Mountain Cudweed. 



Shoots procumbent. Stem unbranched. Corymb simple, 

 terminal. Flowers dioecious. Seed-down feathery, va- 

 rious. 



G. dioicum. Linn. Sp. PL 11 99. HVld. v. 3. 1882. FL Bi\ 8G9. 



EngL hot. V. 4. /. 267. Lightf. 4/0. /. 20./. 1 . Flook. Scot. 240. 



FL Dan. t. 1228. BulL Fr. L 325. 

 G. montanum album. Raii Syn. 181. 



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

 G. montanum purpureum et album. Ger. Em. 640./. Lob. Ic. 



482,483.// 

 Filago n. 157. HulL Hist. v. 1. (j7 . 

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



Prov. 157. ^.30. 

 Lagopus. Trag. Hist. 332. /'. 

 rilosellu minor. Dod. Pempt. 68./ Fuchs. Hist. 606. f. Tc. 317. /'. 



Dalech.Hist.\008.f. 

 Antennaria dioica. Gcertn. v. 2. 4 1 0. ^ 1 67. 

 Cat's.foot. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 18./ 4. 



In dry mountainous or heathy })astures. 



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

 wich. Frequent in the mountainous counties. 



Perennial. June, July. 



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

 rigiU, 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 rtin- 

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

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

 simj)ly corymbose, white, witli 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 tlie j)lant 

 is incompletely dia'cious ; but this varies, and the seeds of the 

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

 much by root. The cahj.i scales have a membranous termina- 

 tion, either rounded or acute. Sefd-doun partlv rouuh. j)artly 



