COMPOSITE. 67 



and female. Anthers with the lobes produced into tails at the 

 base. Branches of the style in the fertile flowers linear-convex 

 externally, flat internally, without a pencil at the apex. Achenes 

 cylindrical or compressed, without ribs. Pappus hairy, rarely 

 absent, at least in the perfect florets. 



GENUS XIV.~F I L A G O. Tounief. 



Anthodes heterogamous, discoid, several-flowered. Clinantli 

 cylindrical or conical, or flattened at the summit, naked in the 

 •centre, but with paleae resembling the phyllaries at the circum- 

 ference. Pericline ovate-prismatic, 5-sided, of rather few im- 

 bricated concave or keeled scarious phyllaries, arranged in several 

 rows. Florets all tubular, those in the centre perfect, surrounded 

 by several rows of female florets with filiform corollas, situated 

 in the axils of palece resembling the phyllaries. Achenes oblan- 

 ceolate-fusiform or -ovoid, compressed, papillose. Pappus of the 

 fertile flowers of filiform hairs, that of the external flowers caducous 

 or absent. 



Annual herbs, with alternate woolly leaves and anthodes 

 arranged in heads or clusters, with proliferous branches springing 

 from beneath them. Phyllaries grey, brown, or yellowish. 



Tlie name of this genus of plants comes from the word Filam, a thread, in 

 allusion to the cottony fleecy covering of the plants. 



Section I.— GIFOLA. Cass. 



Pericline 5-angled-pyramidal, with the phyllaries opposite, 

 acuminate or cuspidate, in 5 rows, not spreading like a star when 

 the fruit is mature. Clinanth elongated, filiform. Anthodes 

 woolly at the base, collected into compact spherical clusters. 



SPECIES L— FILAGO GERMANIC A. Linn. 



Pl.\te DCCXXXVI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXLV. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. 



F. canescens, Jord. Obs. PI. Nouv. etc., Frag, iii. p. 202. 



F. Germauica, var. a. Hook. <fe Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 249. 



F, Germauica, ft canescens, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 192. 



Gnaphalium Germauicum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 946. 



Stems erect or ascending, usually simple below, prolifcrously 

 branched at the ai)ex, where a pair of ascending branches are pro- 



