418 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Gnaphalium. 



G. minimum. Fl. Br. 873. Engl. Bot. v. 17. 1. 1157. Willd. Sp. 

 FLv. 3.1896. Hook. Scot. 241. Relh. 324. RaiiSyn. 181. 

 Lob.lc,4Sl.f. Bauh.mst.v.3.p.\. 159./. 

 G.montanum. Huds.362. With. 715. Hullv. 1.239. 

 G. minimum erectum, in arenosis nascens. Moris, v. 3. 92. sect. 7. 



t.]\.f.3. 

 Filago montana. Sibth. 262. Abbot 189 j 6«i woi of Linn. 

 F. minor. Ger. Em. 641 ./. 

 F. arvensis. £/ir/i. Herb. 100 5 noi of Linn. 

 Least Cudweed. Pe^iy. H. i^ri^ ^. 1 8./. 1 1 . 

 In barren sandy and gravelly ground, common. 

 Annual. July. 



Root small and slender. Herb all over sparingly, not densely, cot- 

 tony, of a greyish hue. Stems one or more, from 3 to 6 inches 

 high, various in direction and luxuriance, slender, branched, leafy. 

 Leaves scattered, numerous, small, sessile, lanceolate, flat, point- 

 ed, equally downy on both sides, from one-fourth to one-third of 

 an inch long. Ft. 3 or more together, sessile, in small heads 

 or tufts, partly terminal, partly at the sides, or in the forks, of 

 the branches. Cal. ovate at the base, conical upwards j scales 

 lanceolate, convex, acute, green, downy, with narrow membra- 

 nous edges } inner ones entirely membranous. Florets yellow j 

 those of the disk from 4 to 8, tubular, 5 -cleft j of the circumfe- 

 rence about as many, likewise tubular, extremely slender, mi- 

 nutely notched, with prominent stigmas. Seed perfect in both. 

 Downrough. Recept. extremely small, tuberculated, surround- 

 ed by the permanent half-spreading calyx. 

 Linnaeus did not know this species. Hudson and others took it 

 for his Filago montana, a much larger and more woolly plant, 

 not found in Britain. Both are natives of Switzerland, and ap- 

 pear to be confounded by Haller under his Filago n. 155 ; though 

 the real F. montana, which is likewise a Gnaphalium, was what 

 he principally intended. Hence he finds fault with Lobel's 

 figure, as not well agreeing therewith, being in fact designed 

 for a different plant, of which Haller had no suspicion. 



10. G. germanicum. Common Cudweed. 



Stem erect, proliferous. Leaves lanceolate. Heads glo- 

 bose, many-flowered, lateral as well as terminal. Calyx- 

 scales bristle-pointed. 



G. germanicum. Huds. 362. Fl. Br. 874. Engl. Bot. v. 14. t. 946. 



Willd.Sp.Pl.v.3.\S94. Hook. Scot. 24\. Loiid.t. 43. Relh. 



324. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 1 . 158./. 

 G. minus, seu Herba impia. Raii Syn. 180. 

 Gnaphalium. Fuchs. Hist. 222. f fc. 126./. 

 G. vulgare. Matth. Valgr.v. 2. 214. f Camer. Epit. 606./ Lob. 



Jc. 480./. Dalech.Hist.UXo.f . . . 



