SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIa NECESSARIA. 50^ 

 POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. 



FILAGO. Gen. pL 995. 

 * Recept- nudum. Pappus nullus. CaL imbricatus. 

 Flofculi feminei inter fquamis calycis locati. 

 germanicai FILAGO panicula dichotoma, florlbus rotundatis 

 axillaribus hirfutis, foliis acutis. Sp.pl. 131 1. 

 (Ger.emac 642./, 10. Pet. herb. /. 18. /". 9 ^ 

 10. M.ris hiji.f. '].t.\i.f. 10.) 

 Childing Cudweed. Jnglis. 

 In corn-fields and barren grounds not uncommon 

 G. VII. VIII. 



This plant grows ere(5b, and varies from fix ro 

 twelve inches in height : the whole covered with 

 a downy fubftance like cotton. The principal 

 flalk is properly undivided, and terminated with 

 a clofe globular head of flowers : but the 

 branches which grow afterwards from its fum- 

 mit, in the more adult plant, are widely dicho^ 

 tomous, and then all the fphserules of flowers, 

 except thofe which terminate the branches, be- 

 come fefiBle and axillary. The leaves are nu- 

 merous, linear and acute, growing without or- 

 der, and nearly ere6t:, having their fides prefTed 

 a little towards the flalk and branches. Each 

 flower in the fphserule has a pyramidal calyx 

 with five angles, which calyx confifts of imbri- 

 cated, acute, fufcous, Ihining fcales with yellow- 

 i!h edges. Two or three hermaphrodite yel- 



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