SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMTA SUPERFLUA. 471 



oblongis ? Sp.pl. 1199. Haller. hiji. JUrp. Helvet. 

 n. 149. (ScopoL Flcr. Carniol. n. 1048.^. 57. noftrd; 

 plants fimillima^ fed radix abfque Jarmentis. Oed. 

 Dan. t. 332. non male reprefentat, fed Folium in 

 nofira planta flori fdhjicitur. vid^f.g. noft.) 



Alpine Cudweed. Anglis. 



Upon the tops of the highland mountains not un- 

 frequent, as on Creg-chaillcch^ near Finlarig^ in 

 Breadalbane, upon Mal-ghyrdy^ and upon the 

 mountains of Glenlyon^ Glenurchyy and Glenco, &c. 

 Mr. StuarL if. VIII. 



The root throws off feveral flioots, confifting of 

 tufts of narrow linear leaves one third of an inch 

 long, the flowering flalk is ercd:> three inches 

 high, covered with a white cotton fubftance, and 

 furniilied with three or four leaves fimilar to 

 thofe of the flioots, but rather longer : three or 

 four flowers grow near the top of the flalk in 

 the manner of a fpike, one only from the aU 

 of each leave, fometimes feffile, and fometimes 

 fupportedon a fhort peduncle : the calyx is near- 

 ly cylindrical, the fcales acutely oval, a little downy 

 at the bafe, the apex and margins dry, pellucid 

 and fufcous : the florets are mollly female, but a 

 few in the centre of the difc are fufcous and her- 

 maphrodite! 



The calyx in this fpecies is extremely like that in 

 the following, but the habit of the plant is to- 

 tally different. 



** Filaginoidea caJycibtis cinereis. 



GNAPHALIUM ca;ile herbaceo fimpliciffimo 



credo^ 



