SYNGENESTA. SUPERFLUA. Gnaphaliuni. 
-In the barren plants the a eee globular: in the fertile 
ones nearly cylindrical. -Liw - I believe it is rarely that ripe 
prod a, 
root. Root ow 
eeveri creeping, ieaf, from the crown of the root. Raot-/eaves 
ina thi ck tuft, oval at the end, tapering below into a long leaf- 
stalk, green and slightly hairy above, underneath white with a 
thick cotton ; stem-/eaves numerous, strap-shaped, half oo teeaa 
the stem, green above, — and cottony underneat Stems 
upright, simple, 3 to 7 inches high, white, cotton ony. Heads 
3-to 8, on chor fruit- “rset “Cal. scales blunt, the outer short, 
green, cottony; the inner widening upwards, long, smooth, 
shining, white, ares ‘tinged with purple; in the barren 
plants shorter. Seed ; dows sitting, with simple rays, 
that of the female phate longer than the calyx, that of the male 
Plants not exceeding the calyx. Woopwarp. Blossom white, 
purple, reddish. 
Catsfoot. Cudaweed. Dry mountainous pastures in the north 
of England, Wales and Cornwall, and on Newmarket Heath not 
far from Bottesham Beacon. {Canham Heath near Bury, Swaff- 
ham Heath, Stratton Heath, Norfolk. Mr. Prrcurorp. Abun- 
dantly on the north and west side of the county mi Durham. Mr. 
Ronson. | P. May, June. 
a Fit lieu? resembling the Filagos. 
697 
G. Stem undivided, upright: leaves gamer: s oh lease 
~ rowing at the ‘bases flowers in a crowded term 
ing leafy spike 
“RL dan. 254. 
Differs from the G. rectum in havieg Wunader te leaves, anda 
short clustered spike of black flowers Leaves more 
attenuated at the base, and less naked on the upper surface than 
inGne rectum. Dr. SMITH. - 
Mountain \Cudweed. Gn. Norvegicum. Retz. and FI, dan. 
G. Sy/vat. var, Lightfoot. Woods on mountains in the High 
of Scotland. ae: 
g 
G. Stem upright, terminating in a leafy compound-spike: rec’tum. 
leaves stra -spear-shaped, almost naked on the upper 
side, E. dr: 
E. bot. 124—Pet. 18. 6-Lob. adv. 202. 1, and ic, i. 482. 3. 
G. angl.—F. B. iii. 160. 1—Matth. 828. 2-Ger. 515. 1- 
Ger. em. 639. 1-H. ox. vii. 11, 1. 
Leaves green and hairy above, white and cottony under- 
neath ; root-leaves long, sntess Aplat ahs ped, very narrow, in open 
8tound forming a thick tuft; stem-/eaves strap-shaped, em- 
