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SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. -Gnaphalium. 
Stem 3 to 9 inches high or more, upright, - a thick sa 
cotton, much branched ;_ branches spreadin re cotton 
thicker towards the end, the lower often ailing. cloathed an 
numerous leaves particulafly towards the end, and these thickest 
and most cottony. Leaves nm tapering into a long leaf. 
stalk; slightly cottony and greenish above, more cottony and 
whitish underneath. Ficawers adie sitting. Caf. scales spear- 
shaped, smooth, brown, shining, when in sced blackish, almost 
hid in the cotton. Dowz ied with simple rays, as long a 
Leaves strap-shaped. Flowers cane. Cal. shirts yellowi 
rh erees turning pact scales skinny, inner ones coe 
Blass. y h. 
Blac fe ded Cudweed. In watery places, especially where 
stagnant water has stood during the winter. A. Aug. 
G. Stem forked, wba flowers awl-shaped, axillary: 
leaves thread-sh aped. 
Dicks. b. fees 208. mee Aes bo 
Lea tony, but not hairy. Linn. 
Whole. plant ¢ cotton ine — cotton rae ‘chac either that ad 
the germanicum Stem much branched. Leav 
awl-shaped, half scamainines the stem, about an ite long. Mr. 
OODWARD. 
 Filago ip Linn. Grass-leaved Cudqweed. Gravelly 
cornfields. In sandy ground about Castle Haveningham, 
[ Heaths, Dobsshan Mr. Woopwaro. | 
terminating 
Pet. 18. 11-H. ox. vii. 11. 3. aGer. 517. 8-Lob. ic. i. 
481. 9 Gere Cit, G41. 6-7. BR, ill. a. 159-H. 0x. vil. 
11.3.4, . 
Stem much branched, a Leaves s —, sitting, 
Pressed to the stem, cottony, 3 or 4 lines long. Mr. Woop- 
Warp. Stems upright or spreading, 2 sd 6 inches high. Leaves 
Pressed to. Heads roundish, sometimes from the sides, with from 
3 to5 flowers. Floqwers pyramidal, g-cornered, sitting, or on 
very short fruit-stalks. Hermaphr. florets 4, in the very centre, 
fertile. Fem. florets about 15 in the disc, and 4 or 5 in the cir- 
cumference, lying within the scales of the common calyx, all 
fertile. Anthers of the hermaphr. florets 4, with 2 bristles at 
the base. Bioss, 4-cleft. Seeds of all the florets of Lg centre 
sprinkled with very short glandular hairs, crowned with down; 
those of the florets of the circumference very smooth id down. 
less. Dowz hair-like. Hence it appears that one species at 
G. Stem somewhat forked: flowers conical, axillary and 
ge. 
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gal’licum, 
monta ‘num, 
