SYNGENESIA-POLYG.-8UPERF.Gnaphalium.417 



Annual. August. 



Root tapering, slender. Stems 4 or .i inches long, generally nu- 

 merous, branched, spreading or recumbent in every direction, 

 many-flowered, densely cottony, leafy, sometimes single, with 

 nriany small axillary branches. Leaves linear-lanceolate, on both 

 sides much less cottony, alternate, spreading, tapering very gra- 

 dually at the base. Ft. in dense, terminal, leafy tufts, small. Cat. 

 ovate, of a shining yellowish brown, smooth. Florets yellow, 

 all fertile. Seed-down rough. Recept. reticulated. The whole 

 herb is remarkably tender, and when handled seems to hold to- 

 gether chiefly by its cottony covering. 



8. G. gallicum. Narrow-leaved Cudweed. 



Stem erect, branched. Leaves linear, re volute, acute. Flow- 

 ers awl-shaped, axillary, tufted. 



G. gallicum. Buds. 3G1. Ft. Br. 872. E?igl. Bot. v. 33. t. 2369 

 mild. Sp. PL V. 3. \S9o. Hook. Scot. 24 1. Dicks. H. Sice fasc 

 11.10. '-^ ' 



G. parvum ramosissimum, foliis angustissimis, polyspermon Rail 

 Stjn.lSl. Pluk.Phyt.t.208.f.2. 



G. minimum alteram nostras, Stoechadis citrinae foliis tenuissimis 

 Pluk.Almag. 1/2. 



Filago gallica. Linn. Sp. P/. 1312. 



F. n. 150. Hall. Hist. V. I. 67. 



Grass Cudweed. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 18./. 12. 



In gravelly corn fields, but very rare. 



Among corn, in sandy grounds, about Castle Heveningham, Essex, 

 plentifully ; Mr. Dale. Ray. On heaths in Derbyshire ; Mr! 

 Woodward. Withering. 



Annual. JuJij, August. 



Root small, tapering. Stems one or more, a span hish, erect, 

 leafy, cottony ; simple below ; forked and subdivided in the 

 upper part. Leaves scattered, nearly upright, an inch long, very 

 narrow, acute, covered on both sides with thin, close, cottonv 

 down. Fl. small, aggregate, sessile, forming round tufts at the 

 forks of the stem, or in the bosoms of the leaves. Cat. ovate at 

 the base, tapering upwards to a point ; scales lanceolate, acute, 

 green and downy, with a white, filmy border. Florets of the 

 disk about 3, tubular and .^-cleftj of the circumference more 

 numerous, very slender, but much the same in shape ; all fer- 

 tile. Seed-down rougli. Rece])t. small, convex, granulated, re- 

 maining exposed after the seeds are gone, the cali/.v sjjreadino- 

 and permanent. 



9. G. juinitman. Least Cudweed. 



Stem erect, branched. Leaves lanceolate, acute, 0at. Flow- 

 ers conical, in lateral and terminal tufts. 



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