472 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



eredo, floribus fparfis. Lin.fyji. nat.p. 545. Sp, 



pi 1200. {Ger. em. 639./. i. Pet. herb. t. 18./. 



6. Moris, hiji.f 7. t.ii.f.i. Scopol. FL Carniol 



n. 1046. t. ^6. Oed. Dan. t. 254) 

 Spiked upright Cudweed. AngUs. 

 We obferv'd it upon dry paftures in the highlands 



frequently. It grows likewlfe in woods and 



thickets. $ ? VIII. 



Several ftalks generally arife from the fame root, 

 but fometimes only one, eredl, unbranched, ten 

 or twelve inches high, covered with a white cot- 

 ton down, befet the whole length with long, li- 

 near, acute leaves, greenifli and downy on the 

 upper fide, but white and hoary underneath, 

 growing alternately one above another, and 

 Ihorter by degrees towards the top of the ftalk. 



The flowers grow in one common, long, thick 

 fpike, compounded of numerous oihzv f pic uU^ 

 arifing from the aU of the leaves, and bearing 

 each from one to three, four, or more fiov/crs : 

 the calyx is nearly cylindrical, the icales ellipti- 

 cal, green at the bale, fufcous towards the apex, 

 pellucid and Ihining on the border : the florets 

 are yellowifli, extremely fine and flender, mofl: of 

 them female, but a few hermaphrodite ones in 

 the centre of the difc. 

 There is a variety of this plant which fometimes oc- 

 curs upon the higM'^md mountains, having wider 

 leaves, and a ihort cluilered fpike of black 

 flowers. 



GNAPHALIUM 



