By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 191 
and leaves being covered with a downy thread or cotton. 
1. F. germanica, (Linn.) German or common Filago. Gnaph- 
alium, Smith. Engl. Bot. t. 946. 
Locality. In pastures, fields, and waste ground, on a barren 
gravelly soil. A. Fv. July, September. Area, 1. 2.3.4.5. General 
throughout Wilts. The stems are erect, terminating at first in an 
almost globular (Rose) head of ovate, sessile flowers ; from beneath 
which soon spring two or three horizontal branches that curve 
upward at the extremity and bear each a similar head of flowers; 
these are sometimes again proliferous. This curious mode of growth, 
the offspring, as it were, undutifully exalting themselves above the 
parent, procured for the plant, among the old herbalists, the name 
of Herba impia, or Wicked Cudweed. 
2. F. minima, (Fries.) least Cudweed; minimus, (Lat.) least. 
Engi. Bot. ¢. 1175. Gnaphalium, Sm. . 
Locality. In dry fields, by road-sides, on waste places and wall 
tops, rare in the county. FV. June, September. Area, 1.**4*. 
South Division. 
1. South-east District, « Gravelly places in the vicinity of 
Salisbury,” Mr. James Hussey. 
North Division. 
4, North-west District, ‘Near Chippenham,” Dr. Alewander 
Prior. This species varies according to circumstances from 2 to 6 
or 8 inchesin height. Stem slender, branched only above. Flowers 
yellowish, sessile. Whole plant cottony, grayish. 
Filago apiculata, (G. E. Sm.) and F. spathulata, (Presl.), Engi. 
Bot. Suppl. 2997, and 2998, have not as yet I believe, been observed 
in Wilts. In all probability they will ultimately be added to its 
Flora. 
GyapHatium, (Linn.) CupwEeEp. 
Linn. Cl. xix. Ord. ii. 
Name. (Gr.) gnaphalion, from (gnaphalon) soft down, in refer- 
ence to its woolly herbage. 
1. G. uliginosum, (Linn.) Marsh Cudweed. Engi. Bot. ¢. 1194. 
Locality. Sandy and wet places, especially where water occa- 
sionally stands. A. Fl. July, September. Area, 1.2.3.4.5. In 
