76 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES v.— GNAPHALIUM SUPINUM. Linn, 



Plate DCCXLV. 



Rdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLII. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1006. 



Perennial. E-ootstock producing numerous short leafy csespi- 

 tose barren shoots and erect simple flowering-stems. Lowest leaves 

 oblanceolate-linear, those of the stem linear-acute, all cottony on 

 both sides. Anth6des 1 to 7, in a short terminal head-like spike 

 or in a few-flowered raceme, at first curved, ultimately erect. Peri- 

 cline campanulate ; phyllaries nearly equal, scarious, with an olive 

 stripe in the middle and brown scarious margins, nearly as long as 

 the pappus and expanded florets. Achenes fusiform-cylindrical, 

 compressed, smooth, finely-hairy. 



Var. a, geniiinum. 

 Anthodes sessile or subsessile, in a short terminal spike or head. 



Var. 3, fuscum. Scop. 



Anthodes stalked, in a rather lax raceme. 



On rocks, and by the sides of streams on mountains. Not 

 uncommon throughout the higher Highland mountains. Vars. a 

 and 3 occur together, and pass insensibly into each other. 



Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Plant growing in small tufts. Stems -^ to 8 inches high, very 

 cottony towards the top. Anthodes \ inch long, broader than in 

 the two preceding, with the outer scales longer in proportion ; the 

 inner ones more acute, and of thinner texture ; the outer ones with 

 the wool towards the base coming further up. Pemale florets in 

 only one row. Achenes grooved on the inner face, clothed with 

 short white hairs. 



Varieties a and ^ pass insensibly into each other. 



Dwarf Cudweed. 



French, Gncqjhale Petite. German, Niedriges Euhrkraut. 



Section III.— ANTENNAEIA. B. Br. 



Anthodes homogamous, dioecious. Plorets of the sub-male 

 plants with the anthers longer than the tube ; style usually undi- 

 vided ; pappus of denticulate clavate hairs. Plorets of the female 

 plants without anthers ; style 2-cleft ; pappus of capillary hairs 

 united into a ring at the base and falling ofl' united at maturity. 



