COMPOSITE. 69 



Leaves strapsliaped-oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, apiculate. 

 Anthodes in the primary cluster 10 to 20, half sunk in cottony- 

 wool, overtopped by 1 or 2 leaves immediately beneath it. 

 Pericline sharply-angled pyramidal, with the five sides grooved ; 

 phyllaries boat - sliaped, acuminate, with red scarious glabrous 

 points. Whole plant with yellowish cottony wool. 



In sandy fields and by roadsides. Rather rare. It has occurred 

 in the counties of Hants, Surrey, Herts, Essex, Sufiblk, Norfolk, 

 Cambridge, and York, and is no doubt often passed over as E. Ger- 

 manica. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 



Very like E. Germanica, but generally with tlie stems taller, 

 more slender and flexuous. Whole plant much yellower. Leaves 

 much broader, and slightly narrowed towards the base on the main 

 stem. Clusters of anthodes with fewer flowers. Anthodes larger, 

 more sharply 5-angled ; the phyllaries more gradually pointed, 

 with the midrib purplish-red and the margins at the apex pale-red. 



Hcd'tipped Cudweed. 



srECIES III. -FILAGO SPATHULATA. Vresl 



Plate DCCXXXVIII. 



llekk. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CJNIXLV. Fig. 3. 

 imiot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 37 {his) and 390. 

 Jord. Obs. PI. Nouv. etc., Frag. iii. p. 199. 

 F. Jussiaei, Cosb & Germ. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. Vol. XX. p. 284. 



F. Germanica, var. spathulata, B. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 247. Ilooh. t Am. Brit. Fl. 

 ed. viii. p. 249. 



Central stem short, ascending ; lateral stems spreading, pro- 

 cumbent, all proliferously branched at the apex, where there are 

 2 to 5 ascending-spreading branches produced immediately below 

 the terminal clusters of anthodes ; these branches often again 

 proliferously branched. Leaves oblanceolate, apiculate. Anthodes 

 in the primary cluster 8 to 15, overtopped by 2 to 5 leaves, which 

 spread and resemble an involucre. Pericline sharply-angled pyra- 

 midal, with the five sides deeply grooved ; phyllaries boat-shaped, 

 longly-acuminat(^, with straw-coloured scarious glabrous points. 

 Whole plant with hoary silky wool. 



In sandy fields and waste places and by roadsides^ Not un- 

 common in the South-cast of England, where it has occurred in 

 Dorset, Hants, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Herts, Essex, and Cambridge. 



England. Annual. Autumn. 



