470 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



fquamis marginalibns rotundatis, fcariofis, colo- 

 ratis. 



* Argyrocom£ calycihus albis. 



diokum i. GNAPHALIUM farmentis procumbentibus, caule 

 fimpliciffimo, corymbo fimplici, floribus divifis. 

 hin. fyji. nat. p. 545. floribus dioicis Sp. -pi. f. 

 1199. (Ger. em. 640. /. 4, 5, ^ 641./. 6. Pet. 

 herb. t. iS.f. 4. Moi'is. hiji. f. 7. t. ii.fig.fecun- 

 da ordinis inferioris.) 

 Mountain Cudweed or Cat's-Foot. Angl'ts. 

 It is frequent ia dry barren grounds both in the 

 highlands and lowlands, as on the hills about 

 Arthur's' Seat at Edinburgh^ Szc. 1;. VI. 

 The root throws off many trailing fhoots, but the 

 flowering Hulks are ereft, three or four inches 

 high, unbranched, and terminated with a clufter 

 of white or red flowers ; the radical leaves are 

 fpoon-fliap'd, or oval and widefl: at the extremity, 

 and narrow and linear towards the bafe, green 

 on the upper fide, but white and hoary under- 

 neath : the ftalk is woolly, and the leaves upon 

 it felTile and lanceolate: the flowers are female 

 /7i one plant, and hermaphrodite on another: the 

 cnlyx of the female flowers is nearly cylindrical, 

 of the hermaphrodite roundifh : the fcales are 

 dry obtufe and generally white, but in the her- 

 maphrodite flowers are often of a bright red. 



dpnum 2 . GNAPHALIUiM farmentis procumbentibus, caule 

 fimpliciflimo, capirulo terminal! aphyllo, floribus 



oblongis ? 



