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the stems and leaves with a white cottony pubescence. Flowers 

 large in proportion to the size of the plant, solitary, or 2 3 in n 

 leary raceme. Scales of the involucre oblong with a brown shining 

 membranous edge. May it not be an alpine var. of the last ? 



0. G. uliginosum (Marsh Cudweed] , stem very much branched 

 diffuse woolly, leaves linear lanceolate downy, flowers in termi- 

 nal crowded clusters which are shorter than the leaves. Lighlf. 

 p. 4/3. E. B. /. 1194. 



HAD. Sandy and wet places, especially where inundated in winter, 

 frequent. Fl. Aug. Sept. . 



Stem a span high, very much branched. Flowers 2 3 together in 

 the closely placed upper leaves, small, sessile, forming oblong clus- 

 ters at the extremity of the branches. Scales of the involucre yel- 

 lowish brown, shining, glabrous. 



4. G. gaUicum (narrow -leaved Cudweed), stem erect dichoto* 

 mous, leaves linear acuminate downy, flowers crowded axil* 

 lary and terminal, clusters much shorter than the leaves. E. B. 

 I. 2369. 



HA^. Dry banks nearForfarj also near Newburgh, Fifeshire, D.Don. 

 Fl. July, Aug. . 



Stems about a span high, slender, leafy. Flowers small, oblong, in 

 rather distant leafy clusters. 



f>. G. minimum (teast Cudweed) 9 stem erect branched, branches 

 spreading, leaves lanceolate acute cottony, flowers conical 

 clustered lateral and terminal, clusters longer than the leaves. 

 Lightf. p. 502 (Filago moniana). E. B. t. 1 157. 



H AB. Dry and gravelly places, common. Sandy hills, Tollcross, Glasg., 

 plentiful, Ilopk. King's Park, Edinb., and race-ground, Mussel- 

 burgh, Mr. Greville. Fl. July, Aug. . 



Stems 4 6 inches high, slender, branched above in a dichotomous 

 manner. Involucres downy, broad at the base. Florets yellowish. 



6. G. germanicum (common Cudweed}, stem erect proliferous at 

 the summit, leaves lanceolate downy acute, flowers capitate in 

 the axils of the branches and terminal. Lightf. p. 501 (Fi- 

 lago germ.}. E. B. t. 1946. 



HAB. Sandy places and dry pastures, common, D. Don. King's Park, 

 Edinb., Mr. Greville. Occasionally about Glasg.} as gravel pits at 

 Bothwell, Hopk. FL June, July. . 



Stem 6 8 inches high, erect, with numerous leaves, terminated by a 

 globular head of small ovate flowers, from beneath which spring 

 - 3 or more horizontal branches, in a proliferous manner, each 

 terminated by a similar head of flowers. This curious mode of ra- 

 mification occasioned the term of Herba impia to be applied by the 

 old botanists to this plant, as if the offspring were undutifully ex- 

 alting itself above the parent. Scales of the involucre yellowish, 

 shining, very acute, submucronate. 



24. CONYZA. 



1. C. squarrosa (Plowman s Spikenard], leaves pubescent ova- 



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