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the stems and leaves with a white cottony pubescence. Flowers 

 large in proportion to the size of the plant, solitary, or 2 — 3 in a 

 leaty raceme. Scales of the inro/»c?-e -oblong with a brown shinin:^ 

 membranous edge. — May it not be an alpine var. of the last ? 



o. G. uUginosum {Munfi Cudweed), stem very much branched 

 diffuse woolly, leaves linear lanceolate downy, flowers in termi- 

 nal crowded clusters which are shorter than the leaves. LiglitJ\ 

 p. 473. E.B.tA\94. 



Hab. Sandy and wet places, especially wliere inundated in winter, 

 frequent. Ft. Aug. Sept. © . 



Stem a span high, very much branched. Flowers 2 — 3 together in 

 the closely placed upper leaves, small, sessile, forming oblong clus- 

 ters at the extremity of the branches. Scales of the involucre yel- 

 lowish brown, shining, glabrous. 



4. G. gaUicimi {narrow -Leaved Cudweed), stem erect dichoto- 

 mous, leaves linear acuminate downy, flowers crowded axil- 

 lary and terminal, clusters much shorter than tlie leaves. ]£,B. 

 L 2369. 



Ha.b. Dry banks near Forfar j also near Newburgh, Fifeshire, D.Don. 



Fl. July, Aug. O . 

 Stems about a sjKxn high, slender, leafy. Flowers small, oblong, in 



rather distant leafy clusters. 



5. G. minimum {least Cudweed), steAXi erect branched, branches 

 spreading, leaves lanceolate acute cottony, flowers conical 

 clustered lateral and terminal, clusters longer than the leaves. 

 Light/, p. 502 (Fdaqo montana). E. B. t. 1 157. 



Hab. Dry and gravelly places, common. Sandy hills, Tolkross, Glasg., 

 plentiful, Hopk. King's Park, Edinb., and race-ground, Mussel- 

 burgh, Mr. GreviUe. Fl. July, Aug. © . 



Stems 4 — G inches high, slender, branched above in a dlchotomoiis 

 manner. Involucres downy, broad at the base. Florets yellowish. 



(). G. germaniciim {common Cudweed), stem erect proliferous at 

 the summit, leaves lanceolate downy acute, flov/ers capitate in 

 the axils of the branches and terminal. Light/, p. 501 {Fi- 

 lago germ.). E. B. t. 1946. 



Hab. Sandy places and dry pastures, common, £>'. Dew. K'ng's Park, 

 Edinb., Mr. GreviUe. Occasionally about Glasg.; as gravel pits at 

 Botlrwell, //ojD/l-. F^. June, July. ©. 



Stem 6 — 8 inches high, erect, with numerous leaves, terminated by a 

 globular head of small ovate flowers, from beneath which spring 

 2 — 3 or more horizontal branches, in a proliferous manner, each 

 terminated by a similar head of flowers. This curious mode of ra- 

 mification occasioned the term of Herba Impia to be applied by the 

 old l)otanists to this plant, as if the offspring were undutifully ex- 

 alting itself above the parent. Scales of the involucre yellowish, 

 shining, very acute, submucronate. 



24. CONYZA. 



1. C. squarrosa {Ploiuman's Spikenard), leaves pubescent ova- 



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