74 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Stem 3 to 18 inches high, sometimes solitary in small specimens, 

 but generally dividing at the base into several, which rarely branch 

 again udIcss the main shoot be injured. Leaves slightly undulated 

 at the margins. Anthodes half sunk in wool, not intermingled 

 with leaves. Pericline ^ inch long, campanulate ; phyllaries thin, 

 broadly scarious towards the sides and apex, shining, glabrous. 

 Plorets dull-red. Achenes brown, rough with small tubercles. 

 Whole plant hoary, very densely clothed with cottony hairs. 



^ Jersey Cudweed. 



French, Gncqyhale Jmmdtre. German, Gelblichwasses Rulirhraut. 



Section II.— GAMOCH^TA. Wedd. 



Anthodes heterogamous. Plorets of the centre perfect, those 

 of the circumference female, disposed in several rows. Pappus 

 of capillary hairs united into a ring at the base and falling off 

 united at maturity. 



SPECIES III.— GNAP HA LIU M SYLVATICUM. Linn. 



Plate DCCXLIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMIL. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 41. 



G. sylvaticura, var. a, rectum, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 247. 

 G. rectum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 124. 



Perennial. Hootstock producing short leafy barren shoots and 

 1 or more erect simple flowering-stems. Lowest leaves linear- 

 oblanceolate, acute ; stem-leaves not amplexicaul, linear, all gla- 

 brous above, silky- white beneath. Anthodes in clusters or solitary, 

 subsessile, in a long leafy interrupted spike, or more rarely a spike- 

 like panicle, usually occupying half the stem or more. Pericline 

 cylindrical-campanulate ; phyllaries unequal, the inner ones sca- 

 rious, with a green stripe in the middle, margined with dark-brown, 

 as long as or a little longer than the florets and pappus. Achenes 

 cylindrical, hispid. Pappus red dish- white. 



In fields, heaths, and open woods, and by roadsides. Common, 

 and generally distributed in Scotland ; more rare in England, 

 especially in the South. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 



and Autumn. 



Hootstock short, somewhat woody, slightly branched. Stems 

 3 to 18 inches high, stiff, cottony. Leaves of the barren shoots 

 and those at the base of the flowering-stems much attenuated 

 towards the base, so as to be sub-petiolate ; stem-leaves very narrow. 



